What are the different mixes or feed that you can feed pigeon? Where are some of the places you can buy the food?

Hi, This evening our cat came sauntering up to us with a young pigeon in his mouth. He has feathers with some dawn poking through. He had a small puncture in his wing but no blood and the wing doesn't look broken. Though he seems quite a bit awkward when he moves. We found this forum and...

I found baby collared dove in my garden a week ago and have been keeping him inside in a shoe-box next to the radiator, seems content :) I tried feeding him the day I found him wit some dog food soaked in warm water (as it was recomended on a web site) didn't seem to like the process so I...

Tonight my husband brought home a pij that was in the water at the marina and after reading I have decided he is ill with a virus. He twists his head and is dizzy and falls over I cannot give him rescue fluids because his head moves all over the place. I have him in the house on a low heating...

About 5 days ago, i found a baby dove in my backyard at the base of the date palm that is home to a flock of feral doves. Based on the day-by-day photos of racing pigeon babies here, I have concluded that she is about 17 days old now. http://www.speedpigeon.com/baby_racing_pigeon.htm At...

Five days ago a beautiful mourning dove hit a window in our home and was stunned but able to move around. Her wings are not droopy or misaligned and she can flap them but cannot fly. We have been giving her wild bird mix and water which she has daily. She hides under the trees and behind the...

Hi everyone! Hope I'm posting this in the right place-I've already emailed to the Pigeon911 Yahoo group and haven't received a response so thought I'd try this forum, which seems pretty active... Hubby was doing yardwork today when two pigeons (seem to be helmet pigeons) flew into the yard...

Hi everybody, I'm new here, this is my first post. I have been wanting a pigeon/Dove for a few years now, and I am finally preparing to get one. I live just outside of Philadelphia, PA. Does anyone know of a good place to go to get a pigeon and pigeon supplies. Pet Stores aren't seeming like the...

Today after we lit one of our fires (which hasn't been lit for a couple of weeks) my mum thought she could hear some flapping or wings, then it stopped, then it started again so she went to get my dad and when she came back a pigeon fell out of the chimney shoot onto the fire, luckily onto a log...

Hey all!! As some of you already know, I now have 20 pigeons.... and have fallen head over heals in love with them. Today, as I sat in the coop watching them, talking to them and listening to them, I had a question that I hope some of you can answer. In the last couple of days, I have done a...

Hello everyone, I am hoping someone can help me. Yesterday I saw a beautiful white dove in our driveway. I thought he might be hurt so I told my husband who grew up with birds to get closer to see if he was hurt. He walked right up to him, picked him up and put him on his shoulder. Then our...

I have been working on some notes that I have written down over the years and I started typing my feeding notes. Here they are in full if you have anything to add or any questions about it feel free to post them I am happy to hear from you: Feeding- Vegetables- First, many breeders believe...

Is there any trick to make birds lay eggs? I haven't seen any eggs from one pair for a while. Whilst others lay once in a blue moon but nothing ever comes of them. The ones that do lay- their last one hatched at christmas and they have sat on a few of the otherbirds eggs once but they lost...

I found a male pigeon with a broken wing today, and brought him to the vetmed school here (I go to the university of Illinois). The break is in the joint of the wing, so the vet I spoke to said that it will heal stiff, and he won't be releasable. Because of that, he'll probably be euthanized...

Hi, If my pigeon have canker will it die? Will the baby get sick if he eats out of the sick parent?

I was watching a sick one in my local flock during the tail end of last week. It was always on the roof with the others but staying a bit off to the side, humped up, occasionally throwing up and fluffed as well. For a few days, there was no way on earth to catch it. However, I finally found...

why are un-shelled sunflower seeds so called "really really bad" to give to pigeons??

my pigeon now stays with the chickens we have,since i dont think its humane to keep the poor thing in a bird cage,instead of buying a #50 bag of pigeon feed which is quite expensive,can they live on chicken food,flock raiser/or chicken scratch,i have my chickens on layer pellets,which i know is...

Yep you read the title right, The only problem is I wanted to feed them the other day and he stuffed them all with bread some of it was even stale :( I brought a huge bag of corn and a brand new bag of hole wheat bread, yet not one pigeon came to me when I threw some down not one I was so...

Hello! Hubby used to raise pigeons as a kid, and is very interested in doing so again. However, for now, we are in a flat in a residential area of our city. There are lots of feral pigeons around -- in fact, last night there was one who was in front of our home for a few hours, just hangin' out...