kdubya Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 A couple of days ago in my garden I found a young pigeon with a damaged wing, the thing was on its last legs hungry not moving much, and I thought not far from croaking it, anyway I took it in put it in an old parrot cage I had in a shed!! fed it some corn and gave it water, now its jumping about and getting itself on a perch to roost and generally looks much happier, so it seems keeping this blighter might turn out to be a long term thing as I haven't the heart to "move it on" funny world eh had it been in a barn or coming into my deeks It would of been a different outcome for it KW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Never mind as soon as you let it out if its not that good at flying a neighbours cat will soon kill it for you so you need not worry about it. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddan Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 A couple of days ago in my garden I found a young pigeon with a damaged wing, the thing was on its last legs hungry not moving much, and I thought not far from croaking it, anyway I took it in put it in an old parrot cage I had in a shed!! fed it some corn and gave it water, now its jumping about and getting itself on a perch to roost and generally looks much happier, so it seems keeping this blighter might turn out to be a long term thing as I haven't the heart to "move it on" funny world eh had it been in a barn or coming into my deeks It would of been a different outcome for it KW I have a pigeon on eggs in my hedge. I delayed cutting the hedge for about a month so as to not disturb it. I am the same, if it had flown over me in the field it would have been very different. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guest1957 Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 I used to drink in a pub in London where one of the regulars had a pigeon on a lead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smig4373 Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Live decoys...interesting idea... :hmm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good shot? Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 (edited) I have a new house pet too. Only Magpies and rats are punished around my home and garden and I still admire them for their resilience and cleverness. Edited June 23, 2012 by Good shot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 A pigeon you soppy sod Atb figgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Essex Hunter Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 A couple of days ago in my garden I found a young pigeon with a damaged wing, the thing was on its last legs hungry not moving much, and I thought not far from croaking it, anyway I took it in put it in an old parrot cage I had in a shed!! fed it some corn and gave it water, now its jumping about and getting itself on a perch to roost and generally looks much happier, so it seems keeping this blighter might turn out to be a long term thing as I haven't the heart to "move it on" funny world eh had it been in a barn or coming into my deeks It would of been a different outcome for it KW Snap…. I have some pictures of a squab from around 16 yrs ago…it had fallen out of a nest and a crow was walking up to it ready to start picking it to bits! I looked for the nest but zip, so off we! Went home…. I ground up meal and made up a feeding device and it came to work in my Nissan patrol….any way it made it to feather and off it went one day to go and get shot! Daft really, but some times these things have to be done…. TEH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo90 Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Live decoys...interesting idea... :hmm: they do that in france....they have lofts of woodies that they take out and tie onto poles that they lift into the canopy to encourage woodies to flight towards them and then they shoot them.........the decoys they take as squabs and they live a long life in lofts and wear hoods to blind them when being used as decoys, they use strings to their branches to allow the decoyer to pull teh string and make the pigeons spread their wings to balance when the branch wobbles to assist in drawing in passing pigeons. my wife paid for me to have a guided days pigeon flighting a few years ago, the chap who took me out had a hand tame pigeon in their yard that flew to hand for a few crumbs I do a fair bit of ferreting and also used to breed rabbits......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death from below Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 you're getting soft in your old age. Lucky it wasn't a stray monkey that you found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Lucky it wasn't a stray monkey that you found. :lol: I enjoy having the Pigeons about in my garden now. There's a breeding pair that are well tame. If I've been shooting the field over the back of the house I always wait anxiously to see if they come back that evening. I just got permission on all the ground out the front of the house as well today so I don'y much fancy their chances this season :( . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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