Posted: 10/19/2010 9:33:09 AM EDT
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Anyone own one or two?
I have one. Not through any effort, but by sheer chance. It adopted us. When I first saw it hiding out in my covered chicken pen I intended to kill it as a feral animal but it had a tag and so I decided to give it a chance and notified the NPA(yea, there is a National Pigeon Assoc.) but they did not have the # listed. Anyhow I can't get it to go on its way and it has been acting more and more like the chickens it hangs with. More than once it has led hawks and ravens away from the rest of the flock so it has earned its keep. Is it bad to let it hang with my layers? Pidgie (kids names it) heads into the coop with the hens at night and roosts with them. Most of the hens treat it like another chicken for the most part and some of the mannerisms the pigeon has adopted are different than from early on. Damn thing acts like a chicken. I know very little about pigeons and nothing on the breed of this one. My guess it is a type of show bird. Not even sure of its sex. Love the purple. 
Hanging with Dinner.. 
I am not going to kill it. I have tried multiple times to run him/her off. Seems to be a permanent addition to the flock now unless there is some sort of threat to my laying hens or our health. |
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This thread is going to cause a few squabbles. TRG Only if I get it a mate... 
It was in the sights of my .410 when I saw it had a tag. I gave the thing a chance trying to find its owner and even posted on craigslist to no avail. Then it ran interference on a hawk. I don't see any obvious reasons to get rig of or destroy it at this point. It appears to not consume much and forages mostly. I have not bought anything pigeon related for its upkeep and do not intend to. |
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nice bid  keep it . Have had pigeons in the past and they are fun to watch .What really saved it's ass was when I watched it with the kids and dogs. It would play keep away with them. Weird thing is that it would go so far as to tease them. It would fly away a little bit as they got close, then move back closer and closer then fly just out of reach. The thing can just land on the roof if it wanted or fly away completely but it was actively toying with the kids and dogs. |
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give a name  Pidgie. Still hanging out. Found its way into the chicken house and roosts with the hens, though some do not like it and peck at it. Will also hang out unter the heat light or in a nest box. In the yard it hangs and pecks with the chickens and rarely flies around. |