Banding a Baby Pigeon

This is a short video of how I band my baby pigeons. It's a little hard to actually see how I do some of it, but I think you'll get the idea.

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• pigeon

[ballgreen]

im i wrong to say thats on the wrong leg?

[birdlady]

It doesn't matter which leg you band them on.

[luizpigeon]

i like to raise pigeons too, i prefer to raise ornamental pigeon, but unfortunatelly here in brasil we are forbidden to imports them. what kind of pigeon do you raise? i loved to see you putting band in the babies pigeons

[birdlady]

I raise racing pigeons.

[gkl1025]

Hey birdlady!

Thanks for sharing this video!

Kevin from PT

[ballgreen]

i was told left leg upside down because if you enter them in a show and yours is on the wrong leg you cant enter? have you heard that before

[leestababee]

its too bad i dont have any bands on hand to band my squab :(

[ballgreen]

how old were the younsters because that looks a tight squeeze i've been there

[kopetsa08]

i have roller pigeons

[ptlofts]

nice and usefull video-info.

[LeoTheSniper]

a few days ago a young (not baby but not adult) pigeon's mother was eaten alive by a cat in the neighborhood (my little sister's nanny saw) I was wondering what I should do to raise it. I've been feeding it through a syrenge so far and teaching it to drink water from a bowl.

[heartstuff]

I raise racing pigeons too. :)

That's pretty much the same way I've been banding them except I think it's easier to have someone hold the bird still. When I was little I used to be able to band them without needing anything to pull the toe through... wish my fingers were still that little!