Pigeon help?

Question

Someone who works at my apartment complex found a baby pigeon in a nest upstairs on the patio (3rd floor) and took it off and put it on the ground below where it was because a new tenant is moving in. I found the pigeon in a box downstairs and brought it up to my patio which is one building over from where it was found. The parent doesn't know it's there. I don't want it to die, so what should I do with it? Do I look for a wildlife rescue or something? Should I just put it back where it was? It's supposed to be 100 degrees tomorrow. I don't want it to die from the heat. I don't want it to starve or die from no water. Help!!

I forgot this part....the pigeon is about as large as my fist. It has a lot of feather on it's wings, but it's body is just fuzzy. I tried to feed it some organic wheat bread that I had added water to and mushed up, but it just stands up and flaps it's wings and peeps and doesn't really open it's beak. Should I go buy some dry cat food and mush it up with water? Help!!

I cannot keep this bird as a pet. Should I drop it off at an animal shelter or just put it back on the ground where I got it?

Answer 1

Ok I know how to feed pigeons and doves I learned how from when I worked at a pet store.

Go to a pet store that sells Kaytee exact hand feeding formula.

and get a cup with a hole a little bigger than the babies beak on the bottom corner of the cup.

mix the hand feeding formula with warm water, check the temerature of the formula on your arm like a human babies milk. If iots too hot you can kill the baby pigeon, too cold you can give him an infection.

put the formula in the cup with the hole in the botton corner. stick the babies beak in it and tilt the cup so the formula runs teard the hole by the babies beak, he should start drinking immidiately.

You'll know when he's done, you'll notice a big bulgy sack in his throat getting bigger this is called a crop, when it feels like a water baloon stop feeding him, and feed him again when its empty.

When he starts looking like and adult pigeon offer him fresh fruits and veggies, with some parakeet seed, and grit in a dish in his cage or box. He will start to learn to eat in his own. at this time offer a water dish. After he eats the food on his own give him a nice cage with a few toys, like bells, or colorful plastic toys.

After this you will probably have to keep him as a pet, because he will have no survival instincts, pigeons make GREAT pets. they love to be held and pet and will sit with you when you watch tv.

As an Adult feed him parakeet seed, with grit offered in a separate bowel, also offer fresh veggies, and fruit, and some bread, and crackers.

You can do all this or give him to a pet store that knows how to raise pigeons and doves.

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Answer 2

The best thing to do, if you can, is put the pigeon in its nest again or in a nest that you make for it, and put it in a safe place where the parents can get to it. They will take care of it. If you have to raise it, get a syringe and baby bird formula from a pet store. Or, since pigeons are seed eaters, you could probably use something like oatmeal or cream of wheat, or some (human) baby food featuring mainly grain products. You will probably have to force the bird's beek open at first, because it doesn't recognize you as a food source. Put the syringe or dropper all the way down the bird's throat, and squeeze the mush into the crop (food sac on the bird's neck).since this bird is pretty young. As it gets older it can pick up its own food. If the bird survives until it can fly and eat without help, it can be released. It is best to put the cage outside for a couple of weeks so the bird can observe the environment. Then open the cage door, but leave food and water in the open cage until you know the bird can find its own supply. It will join the other pigeons and poop on statues etc.

Answer 3

I once raised a baby crow in a similar circumstance. He was maybe one day out of the egg when I got him, no feathers, half of his body size was beak. I fed him a mixture of corn meal and milk with an eyedropper until he could eat solid food. Then he just ate what I ate. You have probably already noticed that it throws its head back with its beak wide open waiting for you, its new mom, to feed it. Good luck. It's a labor of love. If you are successful, it will love you for life.

Answer 4

ive found birds in my backyard before and tried to help them out. Im no vet, but i tried to feed it and give it water. and sometimes they die within a few hours. i would call up your animal rescue facility near you and ask them what you should do.

Answer 5

you could try feeding it some seeds, mushed up worms, or soft corn. you have to open its beak if it doesn't open up (u aren't its mommy). feed it about twice a day. and keep it warm (about 90 degrees F).

Answer 6

Get a animal feeding suringe to give it water, and if you want it to survive, mash up worms and feed them to it.