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Originally Posted by jbarile  If He is a homing pigeon, they are used to being handled so he will not peck you should you attempt to pick him up either come from the bottom as if to offer your hand for him to step up on you hand or wrap your hand around his back with his wings closed, then you can read his tag, here is a link that I attached to contact to recover lost homers, if he is sitting on your fence all this time, he must live by or is completely off track and is lost. interBUG Homing Pigeon: Lost Pigeon: Care and Identification |
I'm glad you posted this link! Thanks! I used to raise ringneck doves and a friend called saying he'd found a hurt (what he thought was) cockatoo. So I ran over to get it and see what was wrong with it and it was a white pigeon
...talk about not knowing your avian species, LOL.
It was cold and rainy and he was injured, so I took him home to nurse him if I could and contact his owners if I could find them.
I had a pharmacist friend who raised racing pigeons and called him to help me find the owner by the band number and sure enough, I found the owners in another town....I think they had let the pigeons off in Reno or something like that...not sure where they were supposed to be racing to, unless it was home which for them, was Petaluma.
I kept him in a cage in my bedroom, kept him warm, dressed his wounds and he got well after a couple of weeks. I put him in my dove cage outside, but he was much larger than my doves and he pecked at them, so I had to separate them and get his owners to come get him and take him home, LOL. Hopefully, he lived a long and healthy life after that. I think they might live forever; I've got a dove that's at least 12 yrs old, is semi-psychotic and I swear, he's gonna outlive me!