What You Need to Know Before Getting a Pet Pigeon!!!

Some things you should know about pet pigeons!
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[jessicabella]

I have a pet pigeon. I rescued him from the ranch where I used to keep my horse. He was an abandoned fledgling with an injured wing. Nursed him back to health and wanted to release him, but he became really tame. He does have a very feisty attitude and tries to breed anything that somewhat resembles a bird. His favorite is pipe insulation 🤨. We love though, I even crate trained him. I move him from a night time cage in our temperature controlled shop to his outside aviary.

[foxyfarmstead]

As a pigeon owner, this is 100% spot on! Mine is like 4x the size of the sweet baby in your hands and holy COW. I bought two air purifiers and hand vacuums just to attempt to keep up with the mess. It’s all worth it though! Pigeons snuggles are the best. So good to see another pigeon lover out there! 😊

[cockatoode]

Also, I will add that pigeons aren’t immediately tame if they’ve never been handled before. Idk if I’m stupid or what but I assumed mine would be tame. He is now as I’ve worked with him and I found that they’re much easier to tame than a budgie in the same situation.

[FarmhouseFelts]

I can’t advocate for air purifiers enough! They should be a must to anyone who has a pet, any pet, but even if you don’t have a pet.. you should get one, or more. I have 4 in my house.. but I also have a house full of pets (3 dogs, 7 ferrets, and 2 gliders). But the air purifiers are wonderful to help with allergens, dust, and just help with keeping your indoor air clean.
I have the one that has built in UV sanitation, so it actually sanitizes the air with UV rays along with filtering it through a HEPA filter.
They’re not that expensive.. and last for a long time. Get one!

[molotovxo]

i like how hes holding the pigeon like a hotdog

[axxotics]

Please more pigeon content! I got mine a year ago and during that time it was so hard to find many sources about pigeon care

[literallynobody]

Yeah, please don't get a pigeon expecting a guarantee that it's going to love you immediately. I rescued a pigeon from the streets and she's been extremely aggressive towards me unprovoked, my vet described her as being "like a pit bull". Just like every other animals some have a tendency to be sweet and others are gonna be more aggressive. So be prepared to love and care for a pigeon regardless of their attitude before you get one!!! And don't worry my pidge is happy, and healthy, she just happens to be a cranky baby.

[tiberiusarrrgh]

Avian Behaviourist 2cents worth:-
DUST:
1 HEPA Filta PER MEDIUM SIZE BIRD in the bird areas . 98% of bird keepers don't have enough running in the house!

Shower them more regularly to lessen the dust. 2 - 3 times a week. Take them in with you helps, 'flock' bathing together is good for them mentally, do them first, then sit them up on the shower rail to drip!

Suction cup shower perches are brilliant, or sprinklers outside in summer on a suitable perch.

Not just providing a bathing bowl 24/7 assuming you have been. If you havent been, start with that first. Add that, and clean it regularly once or twice daily as required. Those terracotta plant pot base things are fantastically good, grippy and suitable, can be set up surrounded by old towels to catch the splash down. Putting it in the centre of the room on a sturdy small table is good, I use a strong plastic camp table. Lacking a terracotta plant base, a lasanga dish or big wide casserole dish is sometimes good, but dont fill it too much past their knees first time if it's a slippery dish. See how they go.

HOW TO DE-EGG:
(You can boil her own eggs and give them back to her if you cant get fakes).

They tend to know they are fakes, but the feel of them under the breast feathers still triggers the right hormones. You can try starting taking them away 1 at a time each day or so after 21 days cycle sitting without causing mental damage, but do it at night. Sometimes the hen bird will 'reset' after no babies appear.

When you take the last egg away, make sure the next morning you have:
• lots of distractions ready,
• new different green feeds,
• hanging a spinach or similar from cotton string to jump and peck,
• meal worms,
• treats,
• bring in brighter lights,
• less nesty spots available,
All things designed to get your broody girl busy and not thinking that her last egg dissappeared in the night. She will be on a hormone downer because of nothing the right shape touching her breast and undercarriage, but it is healthier for her to rejoin the flock than to sit indefinitely losing weight on the nest, but it will take effort from you to distract her from going back into a laying cycle.

Don't let her sit and be depressed - that will just brew another egg. Keep her active. Move things around, take her for a walk, teach her something new using high value treats, deploy cage treats they have to work for, you get the idea.

MEALS:
Don't forget to add liquid Vitamin D to their drinking water, carefully measure the solution, don't poison them by accident OR give them too little.

And I hope you are giving them a wide ranging diet, not seed alone.

Since they are house birds they need it even more, showers, diet, vitamin D supplement.

Loved the video, well done! Really loved the shout out to Bevs Bird Boutique pidgeon pants (Flypers). I love her stuff, I use them on my Seizure Alert macaw, macaws and other flock, and the AA's I train, fantastic creations!!

[BubblyTeatime]

I've become a sudden mom to 3 pigeons literally 2 weeks ago and the amount of down that surrounds their cage is...incomprehensible. One of them even started laying eggs.

[snazzy]

For people who don't believe pigeons have their own personality, I've had 7 and they all were completely different. Cinnamon was the sweetheart, Spice was also sweet, but picked fights. Dodo was a chunky butt who ate everything, Peep was sweet, but a total bratt and attention hog. Oreo was a scaredy cat that bites, and Grey Grey was the smartest of them all and super cuddly. Also a total lady's man and has one chick and gf, Sophie, a feral. Piper, my newest, is super clingy and sweet hates being held like a potato.

[brysenstrowder]

I love that you’re making pigeon videos for Maddie😍 such a good man

[doodlerage]

As a companion breeder I can definitely agree with this stuff. It can also be noted that hand-raised cocks can often have aggression problems, not all birds are like that, but there’s definitely enough for it to be acknowledged as a risk and to know if you are wanting to get a pigeon. Another note is that pigeons have a hard time breathing when on their back! (Their lungs are near their back so pressure on it makes it hard to breathe) ^^ they are extremely fun birds though and it’s always nice to go wrestle with the boys or have my inquisitive hen yank my pant leg while cleaning

[ShadowGirlyz]

A lot of this applies to all birds. I use to have a cockatiel for 18 years and they have a ton of these same issues too. Still loved him so much and had no issues!

[RainRedMusic]

People could consider volunteering at a bird nursery in a wildlife sanctuary and specifically ask to help raise the pigeons.

Hand raised pigeons are going to be a lot easier to tame. Granted, the “burrito” method of wrapping adult birds and holding them while petting works too, just make sure not to wrap them tight because they have air sacks.

[viet]

I am helping a neighbor feeding their pigeons and stumbled into your website. Thank you for being so honest about the pros and cons about keeping a pigeon pet so that a person can make an informative and responsible decision to whether he is suitable to care for one instead of later discarding their pets once something more serious crops up. I am a pet owner of cats and know the challenges a new pet owner as I have been through one.

[MPSpecial]

I can’t believe you missed an opportunity to say “thank you Cooper for your Cooper-ration” hah
also I absolutely love how he just stays in the hand and doesn’t mind being shaken lightly in front of the camera, he’s so tame what

[ninjahavaminecraft]

Their vibrating in your arms. It's adorable!

[carolynndavie]

I've had parrots for 35 plus years. My first rescue pigeon came to me just under 5 years ago. I've built an aviary and shelter for what is now a Flock of 24 rescue/adopted pigeons. I love my parrots but I often wonder if I'd started with a pigeon, would I even have got 'into' parrots at all. I love all birds but the pigeons are quite special and not as 'demanding' as a Cockatoo, CAG or Amazon. Wonderful pet birds that are even suitable for Apartment or Condo Living...which the larger parrots are not. They are not destructive, like parrots with that hook bill. Thank you for promoting pigeons as are so many Domestics needing a good home.

[DarkWandererAU]

For the past year I've been feeding a white pigeon that had a nest on the side of my roof. She would always land on my car when I would come home from work and coo at me, and when I would work in the garden she would flap down to hang out. I started calling her Duchess because of how elegant she looks with her posture and white feathers (plus she has a tendency to be a diva & peck the other birds away so she can use the bird bath alone 😂).
When this winter rolled around, I started to notice how much she would struggle on stormy nights - battered by the wind and rained on. All she could do was perch on the side and try and stay upright.
So I went out and bought her a brand new homemade aviary made out of ceder wood which was empty, built ramps and platforms for her with a "penthouse" built into the ceiling. She has only been in it 4 days, and as a wild pigeon you can imagine how she reacted to being caged at first & it broke my heart. But now I go outside to feed her and she coo's at me & she isn't as nervous because she is more settled in.
I've been texting with a professional who owns hundreds of different species of birds, and she wants me to bring Duchess to her to determine what breed she is so we can choose a suitable mate, because she has flown solo up until this point so I think she needs some socialization with other pigeons. Spring is just starting, so I'm hoping to extend the family!

After she has been in the aviary for a month I'm definitely going to let her out, because she has known the wild most of her life it wouldn't be right to take that freedom from her, and thankfully I don't have any predators in my area. I've never even thought to bring her inside, although she spent 1 night in my laundry in a carrier. Whenever I get too close or try and grab her she resists & gets nervous, so I guess its just going to take time for us to build that bond under these new circumstances.
She has laid one egg since she has been in the aviary, and I just removed it while I was cleaning it & Duchess was in the carrier - that won't have any serious negative effects will it?

[brdwich]

Please make a pigeon care guide! I would love to see a video on that :)