just wanted to point out a few things as I'm a pigeon breeder. There's lots of bad info out there unfortunately. I could tell almost immediately this baby has tons of air in his crop. The longer you take to feed them the more chance they have of taking air into the crop. Weak baby's are especially prone to this. All that touching the baby is also triggering his feed instinct. You really need bigger syringes, 1ml is maybe ok for the first day of life, but beyond that it will take forever to adequately feed a baby this way. A healthy 10 day old will eat 30-40ml a serving with ease. Air is dangerous because people tend to assume the crop isn't moving and don't feed. Also it greatly increases the chances of actual sour crop. It's no coincidence breeds like pouters get sour crop far more often then normal pigeons. The idea that baby's die because the food is a few degrees to low is a fantasy with no scientific evidence. Almost certainly the bird died because of malnutrition probably relating to air in crop, or infection caused by that. Along with splay leg, the baby pigeons legs need to be always under him and on a good surface he can grasp, not something slippery. Birds with splay leg often injured themselves thrashing around. Good luck in the future! I love raising/rehabbing animals it's such a noble thing you do!
Love this!
Well, he is growing and surviving, so you can see his progress as I will keep putting videos on as he grows. Thanks for watching.
just wanted to point out a few things as I'm a pigeon breeder. There's lots of bad info out there unfortunately.
I could tell almost immediately this baby has tons of air in his crop. The longer you take to feed them the more chance they have of taking air into the crop. Weak baby's are especially prone to this. All that touching the baby is also triggering his feed instinct. You really need bigger syringes, 1ml is maybe ok for the first day of life, but beyond that it will take forever to adequately feed a baby this way. A healthy 10 day old will eat 30-40ml a serving with ease.
Air is dangerous because people tend to assume the crop isn't moving and don't feed. Also it greatly increases the chances of actual sour crop. It's no coincidence breeds like pouters get sour crop far more often then normal pigeons.
The idea that baby's die because the food is a few degrees to low is a fantasy with no scientific evidence.
Almost certainly the bird died because of malnutrition probably relating to air in crop, or infection caused by that. Along with splay leg, the baby pigeons legs need to be always under him and on a good surface he can grasp, not something slippery. Birds with splay leg often injured themselves thrashing around.
Good luck in the future! I love raising/rehabbing animals it's such a noble thing you do!
I noticed the splay legs issue but as a beginner I wasn't sure, thank you for posting so maturely