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Ever had Birmingham rollers?
Sorry no, maybe one of my followers knows someone who does?
Also sorry for taking a century to answer this.
borb mode activated
goin through older pics of The Boy and found this, I'm surprised I never posted it
Outtakes
baby boy...baby
Just curious . In your plans of breeding the most friendly pigeons do you plan on changing the nature of them? Example is cock birds are very pinchy and bossy, showing aggressive to their mates do you plan on breeding these qualities out so that both sexs are viable as pets to a wider customer? Or do you think males will always have this quality?
Trying to change an animal’s nature is a pretty big red flag that the breeder doesn’t respect their species of choice for what it is.
When we breed to change something, it should be an enhancement or redirection of the traits already naturally present.
I am allowing the birds to select their own mates, and only stepping in to remove who ever is the least human friendly from the breeding population when ever a younger bird reaches sexual maturity.
Breeding the tenacious aggression out of a Pigeon cock would be like breeding the train out of a peacock: It is not possible to breed out of a cock the criteria by which the hens choose whether or not to mate with him.
Pigeon cocks are pinchy and bossy because hens are not willing to mate with or even acknowledge a cock who doesn’t directly and physically demonstrate his ability to drive off another cock.
Bean’s wooing of Charybdis is a notable exception to the general rule of cocks needing to demonstrate that aggression directly to their potential wives, but even he won his wife over through demonstrations of fearsome, determined aggression.
Instead of fighting an embarrassing losing battle with her, he attacked every other bird that showed any hint of interest in any of the nest boxes he’d seen her looking at.
You could say he won her over by being way more over the top aggressive to way more birds.
Pigeon cocks being pinchy and bossy and not make them less viable as pets or even as ESAs.
Some people like having a buddy they can wrestle with who will initiate a game and keep it going a while with out being frightened or upset by ‘losing’ and who physically can’t inflict damage when they get overly excited.
And Ankhou’s determined pinchiness is vital in alerting me to blood sugar spikes: He bites me increasingly harder, in increasingly sensitive places, to keep me conscious when I start to pass out.
Cocks are not inherently worse pets than hens.
They are just different, and suited to people with a different temperament.
Do pigeons note behavior changes if spayed or neutered, if that is possible?
Sex-specific behaviors are the main reason dogs and cats are altered. For instance, unaltered male cats spray everywhere and unaltered females caterwaul “fuck me” the entire time they are in heat.
Granted, dogs have a unique relationship bonding with humans and cats base all their positive social relationships off of a mother-kitten type of relationship, while birds model relationships with us based on mated pairs, but how much of that is hormones and how much is in their brains?
Birds are not, and should not be, lightly spayed or neutered because of the difference in their anatomy from a mammal and the higher sensitivity of their lungs.
A mammal like a dog or cat’s testese are external. In young individuals whose testes have not descended yet, you don’t have to dig all that far into their abdominal cavity to find them.
A litter bearing mammal’s ovaries and uterine horns are stretched out along the sides of its abdomen, cushioned by the intestines.
A birds testese are about where our kidneys are.
Unlike relatively exposed human kidneys, though, bird testese are protected by the base of the lower ribs.
A bird’s ovaries are in about the same location as its testes, but less close to the spine.
A mammal’s abdominal cavity is pretty easy to get into.
There is just soft skin and muscle to cut, intestines to move to the side, and you’re in.
The keel of a bird (the blade shaped extension of the sternum, to which the massive wall of muscle that pulls down their wings attaches and is anchored) extends beyond their rib cage all the way down their abdomen to nearly touch the pelvis.
Cut any of that wall of muscle, and the bird can not only no longer fly, but will have difficulty breathing because of the interconnection between the wings and lungs of flying birds.
The pump of their wings up and down acts as a mechanical aid to the expansion and conraction of their air sacs that pulls air into the back airsacs, pushes it through the lungs into the front air sacs, and then back out of the bird in a nearly constant cycle.
With their wings still, as in perching, you will see the tail lightly bob as they take softer breaths.
On its back, with its wings held open, as it would be in surgery, a bird other than a psitticine or corvid struggles to breathe because the lungs are mechanically stuck in the expanded inhale position and can’t as easily push the air back out.
Whiiiich brings us to the very often lethal issue of anesthesia which doesn’t fill the more simple bellows like mammalian lungs to nearly the degree of a bird’s more circular respiratory system.
Lungs full of anesthetic, on their back, with wings taped open (preventing the bird from easily exhaling), the vet would have to cut the thin line between keel and pelvis, remove enough of the excessively tightly packed organs (whiiiich include the rear air sacs, by the way) to get to the tiny sex organs on either side of their spine, under the mostly fused ribs, cut those without cutting anything else, put everything else perfectly back in place without twisting or pinching anything, and close it up before the anesthetic kills it outright or it suffocates from the mechanical difficulty of breathing on its back with its wings spread.
Gallifomes and Anattids are bigger, with shorter keels, and are easier and thus safer to get into, but surgically desexing any other type of bird is a last resort treatment for the sort of medical emergency where they will definitely die if you don’t, and dying on the table under anesthesia is better than dying more slowly of a ruptured or cancerous sex organ.
Getting a pigeon spayed or neutered to change its behavior is to risk a VERY high liklihood of killing it over at worst a mild annoyance physically incapable of inflicting injury on a human or even damaging their belongings.
If their (literally harmless) behavior will be THAT intollerable, a different species would be a better choice of pet…
I read into this a while ago just because I was curious to know if neutering male birds would actually help curb aggression/courting behaviors, and from what I found it doesn't really do much. Cocks who have been castrated may stop the behavior for a time, probably because they feel awful after such an invasive surgery, but they'll generally pick it back up again at some point afterwards. It seems that once they've developed a behavior, castration doesn't make it go away.
Granted, the article I read didn't mention pigeons specifically, but this has been observed in a wide range of birds, including domesticated poultry. I think it's safe to assume that spaying/neutering any bird to stop certain behaviors just simply won't work, and it's so invasive of a procedure that it should only be done if the bird has a real medical issue, and even then it should be a last resort.
he’s getting so pretty! 😭😭😭
One of the great beauties of feral rock doves is their iridescence. Look at the mauve, sea-green and pink tones in that fluffy ruff!
He’s a beautiful little boy!
It’s incredibly moving to realise he was one of these pathetic little malnourished chicks (the bald one) saved by the wonderfully kind people @theramseyloft and rehomed when he was better:
Aaa! My sad little man! 😢 Rewatching that video is making me tear up. He's come so far in such a short time! He's such a happy chunky boy now, it's hard to believe that's the same bird.
he's getting so pretty! 😭😭😭
Handsome!
current mood: dislocating my shoulder to kiss the pigeon standing on it
drying off after a bath 😊
I know every picture I take of Ori is of him loafing, but that’s like 80% of what he does. The other 20% is spent preening and eating
I let him out of his cage today when I woke up and the first thing he does is go to one of his favorite pillows to loaf
That pillow is on my blanket and I'm getting cold but I don't wanna move him 😭
I know every picture I take of Ori is of him loafing, but that’s like 80% of what he does. The other 20% is spent preening and eating
I let him out of his cage today when I woke up and the first thing he does is go to one of his favorite pillows to loaf
I know every picture I take of Ori is of him loafing, but that's like 80% of what he does. The other 20% is spent preening and eating
Ori says good afternoon, and he wants to remind you that if you haven't pancaked on your favorite pillow yet today, you really should! It's good for your health! Trust him, he's a doctor
He somehow got even cozier
Such a cozy fluffy loaf!