If you have questions about feeding and / or the care of pigeons babies or adults, injured or sick,

A young pigeon is capable of flying at the age of one month, but it will not necessarily know when he has landed back on the ground. It will not able to find any single food. So it may die if left to itself, and it is best to keep it at least until the age of 6 weeks (and even more, until it has a body of adult and the little heart "drawn" on the widest end of its beak changes from beige to white).
It will avoid placing it on a flat surface because its legs are déraperont and deform irreversibly. Ask a layer of hay (without parasites, to buy pet or pet radius of a supermarket) in a layer of straw (without parasites) or small branches at the bottom of the box or basket in which emergency cat you install it comfortably. Especially not wood chips.
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It is often warm the baby pigeon, a prerequisite for survival, using heated towels, a kettle, a fleece fabric etc.. (The latter only in pigeons a little older and already with feathers). Indeed, their mother used to cover after hatching until they completely covered the body feathers.
If you do not have an A19 or A21 Nutribird, complete breeding food hand for chicks to high energy needs, Versele-Laga, or A19 or A21 Nutribird High Energy (composition Nutribird A19 and A21 is almost identical), you can start by giving him the "Blédine 6 cereals" (not "Blédine" chocolate) in a bottle-nose or manufactured home with a plastic syringe without Needles e, available in pharmacies (from 2 ml if the pigeons do not know suck, 20 or 50 ml if they are able; instructions in the videos at the beginning of this article) or even by introducing small balls in the mouth, without forcing on side, by opening the nozzle gently with a fingernail of your left hand (for right-handers). Mix it with water (not milk and avoid kibble for dogs and cats, unless they are 100% vegan and therefore contain no animal products). Babies do not know suck right now, but the reflex beez in the trap comes quickly (after about 3 days, depending on age). So be patient and be careful not to suffocate. They need to eat a lot (sometimes 20-30 ml of a sudden, by age and by the end of the feeding session, the crop must be full, the size of a small ping-pong) and very often, beez in the trap squawking and flapping wings frequently when they are hungry. Dry canned food for canaries or budgies mixed with water, beez in the trap given in a bottle or early into small balls are also very nutritious, eg GOLDPATEE Versele-Laga (top end), but the mash marketed in supermarkets also do the trick. Try to teach them to peck pretty quickly (canary seed) and do not apply force their beak, which is very fragile. When the pigeon will eat alone, you offer him the same slop, rather dry, mixed with canary seed or seeds for chicks (the latter being crushed). Then you will seed for doves. To learn how to drink from a pigeon, not too young, you can softly beez in the trap soak the end of the spout into a small glass of water, but the nostrils, or we risk walnut. Do not make him drink this way if he refuses, and he gently put water in the spout on the side, using the tip of a small syringe of 2 ml plastic without beez in the trap needle. Not stifle beez in the trap and not introduce the syringe too deeply into the spout. An adult pigeon drinks about 50 ml of water per day, more in hot weather.
If you have questions about feeding and / or the care of pigeons babies or adults, injured or sick, thank you to contact a veterinarian if necessary, SPOV Nadia Fontenaille to Paris (details on our Links page) or write to us if it is not too urgent. You will also find tips for "Pigeons in distress" on the blog Lapalomatriste association http://www.lapalomatriste.org/ This association has created a refuge for doves in Spain at the Shrine of the Sun, near Tarragona Barcelona and organizes carpools French and Belgian pigeons towards its center. Here is a video of the refuge located at the seaside: beez in the trap http://vimeo.com/37302966.
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