feeding and flying pigeon in the cold

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big_fish
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feeding and flying pigeon in the cold

Post by big_fish » Sun Nov 24, 2013 6:00 am

so Im bout 6 months new to pigeons and you folks on here have helped me out a bunch so here is another question. Do you fly your birds in extreme cold? it is about 16 deg here today and we have about 1/2 in of snow it is supposed to warm up to about 24 deg later.is it too cold should I let them save their energy. second question is about feeding do you free feed your birds in the winter or just up the amount you give them?
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Re: feeding and flying pigeon in the cold

Post by Mountaineer » Sun Nov 24, 2013 7:37 am

I always feed from a full feeder....always let 'em fly if predators are not an issue.
A few hawks will zero in during the winter, just as they do on "bleep" feeders.
Good for them, they get hungry too.
I did give whole corn at one time but never saw it mattered much.
Mostly, pigeons live under a bridge just fine.

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