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Baby Pigeons - Newbie Questions *HELP* PICTURES
Hi. I just joined the boards to ask some questions.
We currently have 6 pigeons; 3 males and 3 females. They are all mated up and have been laying and we finally had our first two hatch.
Everything was going great until this afternoon when I went out to check on them and one of the babies is like 8" away from the nest and in the corner. It looks ok except theres these purple, scarlet "tubes" along the top edge of the bottom beak. It kind of looks like a vein? And then on its back, it looks like either the sibling or parents pecked it as it looks like some dried blood. But no puncture or cut visable.
I know in other species of birds the stronger one will push the weaker one out of the nest. Do pigeons do this? The babies are about 1 week old. I saw them under the mom on Sunday. It is possible they were hatched Saturday night (the 25th or 26th).
Anyways, I am concerned the other baby was pushed out by its sibling and I need to intervein. But I dont want to if it is ok.
Help?
BTW they are very warm, mom and dad are taking good care of them from what I see, and mom sits them every night. They are opening their eyes and the one in the corner, I did briefly pick it up to examine it and then put it back down and it was looking up at me and very alert.
Thanks for any help and I will try to get pics of the one with that "vein" thing on its beak.
UPDATE:
Here are pics from tonight. The one baby was still in the corner away from the other one. I took pics of it as a whole, the beak, and then that bloody area on its back. This mom is my very shy pigeon and even when she was sitting her eggs, she would make that pigeon "errrrh" noise and get fluffy but never pecked or wing slapped. She will generally back up slightly. So when I was taking pics she was on the other side of the coop but I caught her and put her back over to the nest and she was semi sitting the one in the nest so I picked up the one in the corner and put it next to its sibling. When it felt mom, it started cheeping and poking her chest some and then it settled down and the two siblings kind of head bopped at each other and then curled up and slept.
Anyways the pics.
Little one in the corner, see its beak???
The back of the one in the corner. Whats up with that blood?
The one still in the nest
Hi. I just joined the boards to ask some questions.
We currently have 6 pigeons; 3 males and 3 females. They are all mated up and have been laying and we finally had our first two hatch.
Everything was going great until this afternoon when I went out to check on them and one of the babies is like 8" away from the nest and in the corner. It looks ok except theres these purple, scarlet "tubes" along the top edge of the bottom beak. It kind of looks like a vein? And then on its back, it looks like either the sibling or parents pecked it as it looks like some dried blood. But no puncture or cut visable.
I know in other species of birds the stronger one will push the weaker one out of the nest. Do pigeons do this? The babies are about 1 week old. I saw them under the mom on Sunday. It is possible they were hatched Saturday night (the 25th or 26th).
Anyways, I am concerned the other baby was pushed out by its sibling and I need to intervein. But I dont want to if it is ok.
Help?
BTW they are very warm, mom and dad are taking good care of them from what I see, and mom sits them every night. They are opening their eyes and the one in the corner, I did briefly pick it up to examine it and then put it back down and it was looking up at me and very alert.
Thanks for any help and I will try to get pics of the one with that "vein" thing on its beak.
UPDATE:
Here are pics from tonight. The one baby was still in the corner away from the other one. I took pics of it as a whole, the beak, and then that bloody area on its back. This mom is my very shy pigeon and even when she was sitting her eggs, she would make that pigeon "errrrh" noise and get fluffy but never pecked or wing slapped. She will generally back up slightly. So when I was taking pics she was on the other side of the coop but I caught her and put her back over to the nest and she was semi sitting the one in the nest so I picked up the one in the corner and put it next to its sibling. When it felt mom, it started cheeping and poking her chest some and then it settled down and the two siblings kind of head bopped at each other and then curled up and slept.
Anyways the pics.
Little one in the corner, see its beak???


The back of the one in the corner. Whats up with that blood?

The one still in the nest
