Picture below of 4 month old Gibby retrieving the bird that was shot over him this morning. He's a retrieving fool, ejected the shotgun shell, threw it in the tall grass and he brought it back too. (he's been amazing so far)
What to do now??
What to do now??
So i got off work this morning and decided to do some bird work with the puppy. I went out to the pigeon loft and there is two eggs sitting on the floor?! I just used to buy pigeons for two bucks a piece in the past when i needed them, so this is my first time housing them. The loft I built doesn't have nesting boxes, do i need to build a couple and put them in? Or just set the eggs in a shoe box with some hay? I wasn't really expecting this part. The loft is about 4'x4'x6'. The eggs were layed in the last 24hrs. I have no idea if the pigeons are male or female or what ratio I have, I have about 10 pigeons in there at any time and they all were given to me after being trapped at my work. Thanks in advance.
Picture below of 4 month old Gibby retrieving the bird that was shot over him this morning. He's a retrieving fool, ejected the shotgun shell, threw it in the tall grass and he brought it back too. (he's been amazing so far)
Picture below of 4 month old Gibby retrieving the bird that was shot over him this morning. He's a retrieving fool, ejected the shotgun shell, threw it in the tall grass and he brought it back too. (he's been amazing so far)
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Re: What to do now??
Put in a few nesting box's and you should never have to buy pigeon's again. In fact you might have to sell some! Nest could be pretty much anything. I have some that is just a row of box's with one top, floor and back. I hung old t-shirts over the front a while back. Birds seem to like privacy. I have a very old square plastic bucket laying on the floor of my homer loft that has raised a bunch of young one's. Had a bucket of straw under one set of box's that a bird got into and had young ones, That bucket has been replaced with a taller one! The box's over that bucket, four holes, three I fixed up foe nest's and in the last one I put waterers and feeders I wasn't using. Birds went in and made a nest behind the stuff! raising pigeons is not rocket science. I think if you set a carton a refridger come's in out back and rigged up an entry hole, you could get them to live in it.