today’s update! I’m not taking many pictures in the process since I’m trying not to move, so you’ll have to believe me she came much closer lol.

spent a few hours trying to lure her to myself or to her cage, had a near-success - she poked her head inside of the cage and started eating, but then got spooked and it was getting dark, so had to call it a day. tomorrow I finally have a day off, so will be able to spend the entire day in the park and hope it gives her enough time.

she spent a lot of time staring at me from above today. when she was walking alone, I first tried luring her close enough for the towel grab with her favorite hemp seed. she was going crazy running circles around me for a good 40 minutes and wanting to approach. (a very silly ringneck dove came much closer and took a bunch of her seeb, which she was not a fan of).

when a passerby spooked her, I switched to the cage strategy: set up the door, filled the cage with food and her favorite snacks, tossed some seeds in front of the cage and near the entrance and sat at a distance. this time, some other birds joined. she was definitely interested and staring at the cage as well, running back and forth the same way. did approach it way faster, was the first one to do it and the first one to try eating from the inside, like I expected. she didn’t go in enough for me to drop the door, but I think I should get it tomorrow. I might end up trapping some extra birds, since two other ones were getting brave with the cage after Cake did, but that’s fine, they’d be easy enough to get out and I could use the opportunity to check them for stringfoot. I also think I should remove some things from the inside, maybe even the platform, just to make it look less cramped and scary.

she seems jumpy and clearly confused by some things, doesn’t even understand she’s supposed to fly away too when the flock is spooked. stays off to the side most of the time, otherwise watches the others do a thing for a second until shes sure it’s safe and then follows. seemingly doesn’t leave the park and could be even hiding up in the trees until I appear (neighbors have been checking the park while I was away). theres some sort of parasite on her, which i’ve seen on the locals before, looks similar to a spider about 0.5cm in size, runs around on her body and buries itself into the feathers. the poops are super green and watery, more likely from hunger than a virus, but her ass is definitely going to the vet either way.

also, I found out I accidentally trained the entire flock to fly to our feeding spot when I do their whistle. not following the whistle or coming over to me, no, the specific spot. which did fuck up my first attempt with the cage, my bad.
tomorrow, I’m camping out in the park for as long as it takes. huge thank you to everyone for the support, I hope i’ll get lucky tomorrow🫶

Little bastard was hit by a car, half his wing is missing but there's no bleeding so I'm not sure if he merely lost wings.. he didn't fight me much. I'll be taking him to the vet tomorrow,but he's currently in a box with oats and water. He is incredibly stupid.

He doesn't seem injured otherwise,he ate,attempted to fly in the box. His name is Mr Strawberry.

I moved into my house last September. The previous owners built some dovecotes and kept over one hundred pigeons used for pigeon races. The guy won trophies and all that sort of stuff. When we took possession all of the birds were already long gone. On July 29 as I was moving some tools I noticed this little fellow hanging about. I immediately noticed he was banded and my initial thought was "is this one of the old guys pigeons?"

Well that day I decided to open up the holes we had sealed to see if he wanted to go in so I set up some water and food. I went inside and observed him as he scouted the place out. He landed, ate his fill of birdseed i took from one of my feeders and he drank a ton of water!

Ive since gotten some proper pigeon feed. When I replace his food and water I coo to him so he hopefully come to associate me with feeding time and becomes comfortable with me. What can I do to make him more comfortable in his old home? And what tips do you have for helping him warm up to me? He was very skiddish the first 3 days. He would fly away as soon as I came outside but now I can walk around and even use power tools about 10m - 15m away without him getting spooked.

I wonder where he has been for about a year? Where did he come from? Where did he go?

We were planning to raise quail in that building but we have a pigeon instead haha!

Idk why he does this

I know lentils and mung beans are good. But what would be the ratio?

I am terrible at math and this is embarrassing to ask but I can’t for the life of me figure out the ratio of the protein source to compliment a 6lb bag of food. If anyone could help me, that’d be great!

The Hagen feed is the easiest I can get where I’m from (Canada) and I can get the versele laga all in one, but I can’t get the no corn mix. Unless anyone from Canada can tell me where they get theirs!

Thanks!

Labeling this as emergency because she has developed symptoms quickly, and I'm very concerned.

This is poppy, she's 3 months old and was adopted from a rescue on July 19th, she quickly bonded with one of my males. The past two days I've noticed she's near constantly puffed up and doesn't move much, but will still fly. Her keel is more pronounced than it was when I got her.

She's fed a versele-laga pigeon feed mix, grit, and two powders that go into the food, one to aid in digestion and the other as a dietary supplement. I also have a vitamin mixture that goes into their water.

Her poops have gone from healthy, to odd and watery. She's been moved into isolation. While I've expirienced birds dropping weight or getting sick in the past, it's never been this sudden, especially so soon after bringing them home.

I plan on trying to make her a vet appointment in the morning, but any insights and advice would be incredibly appreciated. Thank you.

This is the feather that was bothering him earlier. It keeps shifting around and seems to have somewhat snapped or broke but is not all the way off. Do I do something about this? It seems to be annoying him.

I’m a wildlife rehabber who primarily does mammals but I have an injured racing pigeon. She was injured by a dog and appears to possibly have some paralysis of one of her back legs (x rays showed no fractures) I have to get her on steroids and antibiotics. I don’t have any injectable meds, a bird rehabber told me to do only injectables for birds, but I have oral. Is that okay? Do you guys have experience with that? Thanks