and what should i do with him because we have ALOT of cat and alot of dogs around here and i don't want him/her to fall prey to one of them! so well he is like 5 inches from beack to tail bu he IS a baby and i chopped up some sunflower seeds REAL fine and mixed it with some water..... and am trying to find some worms or something 4 him... he is in the laundry basket TEMPORARILY till i find out wat to do with him so PLZzzzz help me.. i wan tto do whats best for him/her ( i named him/her Aidrian)
2006-06-15 09:16:55 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Birds
THANK YOU!! thankyou ALL soo much for your advise.. for now i will just try to get him to eat them maybe tommarrow i will worry about where to put him/her
2006-06-15 09:25:46 · update #1
he is doing wonderfully..
he is eating ground sunflower seeds with some water and bread with water wich makes a sorta paste he likes.... we live on 200 acres and have ALOT of animals... meerkats......DOGS......reptiles etc... so we have proper animal encloser/exibits.... so now little adrienne is living in a large outdoor enclosure.. we are trying to find him a mate because mourning doves find a mate and stick with it for the rest of thier lives... though he may be a little young for that. he can't fly yet but is alwaysflappin his wings and trying... once he does learn tofly he will have plenty of space to fly because we built it specially for birds.. fi its very tall and big with a roof and all. i think he will be happy.....e has trees bushes etc... though i would hope that he could go free..we took him to the vet and they said he had some problem with his wing that probablly happened when he was trying to get out of the filter... and his chances of living in the wild are slim
2006-06-17 13:35:28 · update #2
Good on you, sounds like you're doing an excellent job! These sites explain all about what to do for orphan baby birds, and might give you a little more help -
http://www.crowsystems.com/rehab/babybird.html - this is an excellent article - be sure to read down the entire page!
http://www.stokesbirdsathome.com/q&a/archive/qa108.html
http://besgroup.blogspot.com/2006/02/what-happened-when-nestling-fell-out.html
http://www.projectwildlife.org/find-babysongbirds.htm
And this Yahoo Best Answer too -
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006050608886
I've got a lot of links to wildlife carers from a lot of countries on my site, at
http://au.geocities.com/leaswebsite/links under "Wildlife Assistance" - just click on them all, click on your country and state, have a browse, 'phone them and ask their advice.
Very very best of luck.
2006-06-20 22:15:59 · answer #1 · answered by Lea 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Baby Mourning Dove
2016-10-07 08:20:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may be too late for an answer to be of any benefit.... but doves and pigeons do not eat worms. If it is a young chick, I would suggest taking it to a wildlife rescue place. Otherwise, mix this food up - 1 part baby cereal (make it first), 1 part enfamil (make that up first too) and add water until it looks like melted ice cream. Dove chicks eat by drinking 'crop milk' from their mother. So you have to feed the shick in a similar manner. I either use a spoon or a syringe the bird can get his beak into. If all goes well, his crop will get full of the 'milk'.
2006-06-17 13:16:47 · answer #3 · answered by swainsonslorz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you found what to feed him, so I think that you should find another dove to go with him or her. You might have to see if the vet can tell you which one Aidrian is.Boy or Girl? The best thing to do is to keep Aidrian, because I beleive it'll quickly get killed if you put it back into the wild. Other animals can indeed "sense" some sorts of weaknesses in other animals!
2006-06-28 03:19:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mourning Dove Babies
2016-12-14 04:10:37 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doves and pigeons are basically the same thing I think. My neighbor has a pigeon coop , he feeds them pigeon food that he buys at a farming store. He lets them out everyday and they fly circles over my pool they have never ended up stuck in the filter. Once a hawk killed one of them in mid air , but that only happened once. they usually perch pretty high so I don't think you have to worry about cats.
2006-06-28 17:05:17 · answer #6 · answered by Kat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aidrian's a lucky lil' babe to have a rescuer like you. I would suggest the nearest animal hospital. Some animal hospitals or wildlife animal shelters should have a 24-hour clinic or hot-line for emergencies. Try calling up to ask about feeding and care until you can get lil' Aidrian to them. You need to bring him to them, as that's the best you can do for him at his tender age.
In the meantime, try placing some warm woollen clothing or socks in a nest-like fashion for him to rest in, with a warm (not hot) water bottle under a few layers of it to keep him warm as baby animals tend to lose body heat quite fast due to their still immature internal temperature monitoring system.
Good luck!
2006-06-15 09:32:38 · answer #7 · answered by m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
~We have the same problem with a different bird. It is seagull breeding season here and one fell off the roof during a storm. Mother and father attacked everyone that walked by the baby. These birds are bigger than a very large house cat with big beaks and no fear. I called up different authorities to try to sort it. They all said the same. If you can get it up high so the parents can see it then cool. If not, leave it alone. Only highly trained experts can keep it alive. If you leave it it will die, if you rescue it it will die. Sorry but wild birds cant be helped by humans
2006-06-15 09:22:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
first of all make sure thta he is a dove ..there are several breeds of pigeons and other birds thta look exactlylike a dove second it is not good to be around him too much or you will establish a mama concept where because you care for him he feel like you are his mom and will not leave he is a wild animal and the best thing for him is to be released the best thing for you to do is take him a to a shelter where they can care for him properly and release him in the wild or if he can not live in the wild anymore thean can take him to a reserve where he can get the care he needs
2006-06-15 09:26:31 · answer #9 · answered by Amanda K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Feed it hamburger mixed with some water, to thin it out. And all I can really say for keeping it safe is to keep it in the laundry basket like you are now, get a box (with several small holes) or a bird cage, and keep it up high. I wish you the best with that venture, it's a hard job.
2006-06-15 20:48:03 · answer #10 · answered by k_h_brown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋