How to hand feed baby pigeons. Pigeons paons orphelins

The Kompost Kids are two baby fantail pigeons, whose parents were killed by a sparrowhawk. The babies are a month old and can not yet feed themselves. My other fantails would not feed them so we were going to have to work out a method to do so. The film shows how we did it. I made them a paste from an organic mix of sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, brown rice and home-made bread all moistened with water. This was to supplement their attempts at picking up little bits of grass, seeds, soil and stones. They were out all day in the sunshine soaking up Vitamin D. In normal circumstances, i.e. no predators, I would have let them wander around the garden looking for and trying out foods and maybe even finding a willing pigeon to feed them.
With really small baby pigeons I can usually get them to feed from an eggcup of a liquidised version of the above and they will 'hoover' it up. My first step with a baby, however, is to get another pigeon to feed it, birds can count up to at least three but some of them are very good-natured and will take another baby on and feed it!

Les Kompost kids - deux petits pigeons paons, dont les parents ont été tués par un épervier. Les bébés ont un mois et ne peuvent pas se nourrir. Mes autre pigeons ne voulaient pas les nourrir afin que nous allions avoir à travailler sur une méthode pour le faire. Le film montre comment nous avons fait. Je leur ai fait une pâte à partir d'un mélange bio de graines de tournesol, graines de sésame, le riz demi-complet et le pain fait maison tous humidifié avec de l'eau. Cela a été pour compléter leurs tentatives de ramasser des petits bouts d'herbe, des graines, du sol et des pierres. Ils étaient toute la journée sous le soleil de s'imprégner de la vitamine D. Dans des circonstances normales, c'est à dire pas de prédateurs, je l'aurais laisser promener dans le jardin à la recherche d'aliments et d'essayer et peut-être même de trouver un pigeon prêt à les nourrir.

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[Pavlovafowl]

For excellent help with how to feed a really small baby pigeon go to RotorMedic7's channel and see his two part video 'How to feed baby Pigeon "Penny" ' - find the link in the video response on this page.

[dalecalder2003]

I doubt if the mother pigeon could have done a better job herself. Hand raised like this they will become very special birds, I suspect they will always see you as Mom.

[Pavlovafowl]

@dalecalder2003 Thanks for your comment Dale. I think they now expect me to feed them! Parent pigeons are very affectionate to their young, as are many birds and animals and I think it is this contact with the parents they miss as much as the food. At least the little blue fantail has taken over the job of grooming and there are worse jobs in life than Mummy Pigeon. I'd much rather be doing this than teaching in a college!