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Skippy does the same thing!! I’ve no idea why exactly he does it either, but my guess is it’s related to being horny in some way since usually I see them do it in between bouts of feeding their mate and a lot of the time it’s followed by them getting it on for real in the end.
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Oh yeah also almost forgot to tag it for #pigeonsky
Have some happy rescue news to brighten your morning as it did mine after so many recent birds I couldn’t manage to save too! 🥹
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They’re all super adorable - which makes it all the more sad to know that this little one’s suffering was entirely preventable to begin with. It’s neither sick nor injured, it just couldn’t find enough food in the city and almost starved to death because of it. 😔
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Normally a pigeon this age should be weighing at least 250-300gr, “5 weeks of age and 250gr of weight” are the recommendations for PMV vaccination for example, a healthy pigeon manages that easily.
So this one we weren’t even sure if it’d survive the night tbh. 🥲
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It’s still got a long way to go now of course, and I’ll need to check for any underlying diseases that might endanger its recovery now that it’s so weak already too, but considering it was a meagre 190gr of weight yesterday, this is a huuuge step forward already.
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Yeah I reckon it’s maybe 6-8 weeks old at most? Didn’t even notice me approaching it until I actually touched it, and even then it hardly resisted being picked up. It was really cold already too then, I’m pretty sure it had just huddled up by the stairs to literally die.
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Thanks, from what I understand about the colour genetics that does sound pretty plausible. I figured ash red and bar were the base, but I’m not particularly great at identifying all the many modifiers that exist yet. Super interesting stuff though!
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Dang that really is one heck of an orange pigeon! I’m not the most knowledgable about pigeon genetics, maybe @graemeboyd.bsky.social can enlighten us with some details about this bird? Definitely within the range of the possible for fancy pigeons though.
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Define orange, you mean like neon orange? Or more like a faded reddish brown that looks kinda orange?
The former could be spray paint, often used for racing pigeons but pigeons do also come in a variety of bred colours in the red and brown spectrum
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So far so good, the eye looks terrible but from what we can tell right now it seems like there isn’t any more serious damage actually, just lots of blood and swelling. As for that whole other thing… one thing at a time, it’s an old wound so there’s only so much we could do either way.
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Ngl I don’t have high hopes that the eye can even be saved or that this pigeon wouldn’t be better off euthanised in general, but for now it’s getting all the painkillers and antibiotics and care I can give it, and we’re seeing the vet in a few hours.
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Our rescue as a whole also benefits though as the owner of the building is making quite a decent sized donation to our cause - which, you know, means a lot because without money we can’t help any birds either.
Also we can now educate people on the reality of cleaning dirty attics from pigeon poop.
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Look, when she was found she was a lil squab caked in poop. No way to tell except for DNA testing… so we just make a lucky guess based on behaviour and it turns out Joachim was a bit of an unusually rowdy girl.
But then suddenly there was a surprise egg.
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Although that said I did get a pretty neat free cage out of it all. Was on one of the attic we checked/cleaned and since it was to be thrown away anyway… YOINK, mine now. 👀
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We’re doing our best! Which just makes it all the more infuriating really when things like this happen that were just entirely preventable.
Maybe we shoulda just ripped one of those old ass windows out of the wall entirely last week so nobody could even think to close it… 😅
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It’s so sad, this was 100% entirely preventable and would’ve saved us four whole hours of work too if only people had done the lazy thing of not effing touching anything they were explicitly notified to leave alone to begin with.
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Mind you the owner and his associates have been nothing but friendly and were so happy they found us and we agreed to help move these animals the gentlest way possible. We don’t know who did it, but our guess is most likely one of the residents of the building. Gods I’m so tired now.
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We went there to check the situation one week ago precisely and our instructions were in no way unclear: leave the windows open for now, we will deal with the pigeons when we come back. Closing the windows would mean their death.
Today we came back to find someone had done just that though. 🫠
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We literally did nickname him “Final Bossfight” because he’s super defensive and slaps HARD.
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They absolutely are! I love how much variety there is even in the feral flocks we care for, and it’s so fun to just watch them go about their pigeon business once you’ve actually earned their trust. Working with pigeons sure never gets boring.
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Iris isn’t super thrilled about me getting too close either most of the time. Sometimes he’s okay with sitting on my hand at least tho.
The secret to taking pictures like this… is having a good camera with decent zoom. Most of the pretty pics were taken with my Nikon rather than my phone.
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That is so damn relatable lmao. I’m just trying to focus on posting here more while sticking to just reading on the other site. Kinda wanna ditch the other one entirely tbh but there’s still people posting there that aren’t here yet… more or less.
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I‘m glad to hear that! It’s so easy to believe the bad rep they get though, it’s so casually woven into everything, even our very language! One’s a pigeon and the other a dove, when in reality they’re the same species even.
Lotsa good people working on making the world a better place for them tho!
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They so are! They’re so full of personality and can be such big old dummies sometimes, in all the best and most adorable ways really.
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R Ö U N D
the best kinda birb really
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It is an excellent shape for a pigeon, yes. He’s my perfect son.
Unlike his wife, she’s the disappointment of a son. Always was. She was found covered in so much crusty old poo and it never got better from there. Still love her too though, I love all my pidge children.
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Good news for you, I regularly visit some superbly angy forbidden squish orbs. This one beats me up good every time I come to check for eggs. 🥲 Such violence. I love them too. Pigeons are just magnificent really.
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Yeah especially with domestic pigeons, literally the only „instinct“ we’ve left them with is the one that makes them seek out the giant weird featherless apes that bred them this way. Everything else they gotta learn the hard way really.
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Oh yeah he BIG MAD
but he also knows me and I gave him some bed‘n‘breakfast seebs for being such a good egg daddy again as always. Somewhere deep down I know he still loves me too.
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We always try to explain it to people that teaching their pigeons to have positive associations with humans can lead to them innocently landing in the hands of an animal abuser and coming back to us all broken if not just outright dead and that seems to help somewhat.
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Lots of people sadly don’t understand that them being super friendly to the animal is not as helpful as it feels in the moment. I get that they want the animal to feel as loved as the deserve to be, but especially with wild animals or ferals to be released again it can often be a death sentence.
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I’ve definitely had pigeons who were more friendly right from the start too, while others just absolutely hated my guts and fought me all the way. Though being a bit friendlier usually isn’t too much of a problem as other pigeons will teach them to be wary enough usually
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That said… yeah I regularly see other people from our group struggle with imprinting too. They love their patients and dote on them and then it’s no wonder if they become very friendly after just a few days. Especially hurts when people do it with wild species like wood pigeons though.
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Thing is; I don’t cuddle them. As mean as it might seem, I simply grab them whether they like it or not, feed them and then put them back in their box/cage/aviary and then they don’t see much of me for a couple hours until it’s feeding time again. I only cuddle those that are clearly non-releasable
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It differs from person to person. For me personally? Adults that needed tube feeding not once, squabs that had to be hand raised… I’ve had one imprint on me and another one sort of did but I’ve let that happen as skippy is non-releasable due to PMV lasting damage anyway.
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The recovery rates for pigeon pox are generally a lot better than PMV though aren’t they? Cause man, what we lack in pox we got in PMV it feels, even had a tiny yellow nugget of a chick with the frickin virus once, that was absolutely heartbreaking.