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Kisses    Mourning Doves  Tucson, AZ   January 2020

#mourning dove

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SUSPICIOUS FUCKING THING

#garby #barbary dove #crested pigeon #i'm doing a (carefully supervised) cage time once a week with them to see how they get along sharing a space #went surprisingly well! garbage can just got the zoomies while microplastic was watching him like ??

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Mother and son. 🟠🖤🟠

Barrow is such a good mama. Garnet is such a goofy, shiny lad!

#rock pigeon

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#rock pigeon

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poking his melon

#rock pigeon

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crested pigeon (ocyphaps lophotes) wing, closeup

#garby #crested pigeon #birblr #pigeonblr #pigeon #birdblr #birdlr #-dusts off this blog- anyone here lol

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Good Fucking Lord

he's seeing

#garby #crested pigeon

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oouuugughggjhhgghhh

#garby #crested pigeon

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the most sopping wet sad little creature to exist

#garby #crested pigeon #pigeonblr

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watching minecraft let's play with me (can't sleep)

#garby #crested pigeon #pigeonblr

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Hyup

#garby #crested pigeon #(his feathers look ratty because he went thru a vet checkup today. he's ok ^_^)

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full

hungry

#garby #crested pigeon

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hungry

#garby #crested pigeon

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IMPORTANT PIGEON PSA

If you have a pigeon who is suddenly showing interest in your salt lamps, your cooking, people food, human scabs,tears, ect and in general is trying to eat and lick things your pigeon normal wouldnt I strongly urge you to take a look at your pigeons diet and make sure they are eating a good mineral grit.

Pigeons need more then oyster shell. Oyster shell provides calcium but it doesnt provide the other necessary minerals a pigeon needs to be healthy. If you pigeon is licking salt lamps and trying to eat stuff it shouldn't it may be deficient in multiple minerals and sodium. Especially for female pigeons if this goes on for a long period of time it can lead to leg weakness, higher mortality, and a higher chance of complications associated with egg laying

Sadly due to certain misinformation we have alot of pigeon owners even here on tumblr and other places that dont realize how important grit is. If your not offering a vitamin supplement in the food or water and your also not offering red mineral grit your bird is likely suffering from multiple deficiencies. Think about why pigeon grit is red in the first place, its the iron content. Without grit your pigeon is likely not even getting the iron they need. These multiple deficiencies can impede their health and id imagine it would make it harder to bond and make a connection with your bird.

What to do about it?

Feed your pigeon a red mineral grit as soon as possible!

Buy some grit and start sprinking a tiny bit over their food and slowly increasing the amount they have access to. Birds who are deficient will gorge themselves and that has an impaction risk so you want to start slowly introduce it back into their diet. Eventually you should be able to offer it free choice and the bird will self regulate.

What if you dont have access to pigeon grit? You will want to buy bird vitamins that go over the food or that are added the water.

I also suggest owners to buy a safe source of salt for your birds such as a salt wheel ment for guinea pigs, rabbits, ect. Pigeons will use it for the salt content but it also has beneficial trace minerals as well.

Below the cut ill have some links to some grit and the wheel i was talking about.

I hope this post is able to help people who may not realize their bird is deficient

https://www.countrymax.com/purgrain-pigeon-red-grit-50-lbs/

https://www.chewy.com/lixit-salt-trace-mineral-wheels-small/dp/186117

#general #resources

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“Reconsidering The Pigeon” - photographs by Leila Jeffreys [via]

#crested pigeon #luzon bleeding heart dove #nicobar pigeon #topknot pigeon #peaceful dove #squatter pigeon #superb fruit dove #emerald dove #wompoo pigeon #rose crowned fruit dove #i think that's all of them

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speaking of garby he’s going through molt so he’s SO scruffy

#garby #crested pigeon

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hi Neil

#rock pigeon