Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

? asked in PetsBirds · 8 years ago

What should I do with an injured pigeon?

Today I went to the ranch where I board my horse, which is miles of fields and one parking lot. There are pigeons, cats, ground squirrels, raccoons, tarantulas, snakes, and possums that reside there. There are also birds of prey. When I got to the ranch there was a pigeon sitting on the ground near the door of an open chicken run (there is also a rooster that was abandoned at the ranch and adopted the boarders, who built a coop and run for him). She could not walk and stumbled into the run, where it was too enclosed and too surrounded by people for the hawk to venture in. So the hawk never finished her off, and now I have a pigeon that cannot walk and can fly only a few feet with a bunch of feathers ripped off her back. I'm not sure what I should do with her. I feel somewhat obliged to take her in, give her some electrolytes and shelter, and just have her comfortable until she heals. But should I just let nature take its course and have her starve or get picked off by a raccoon? I have chickens that I raised from chicks so I know a little about treating wounds on birds. So pigeon experts, any advice?

Right now she is in an enclosed area in the chicken run with some cracked corn and water with stones in it to keep her from drowning in it. But it's a chain-link run, so a raccoon could easily nab her and take a bite.

5 Answers

Relevance
  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Keep her in a safe enclosed area until her wings heal and then you can let it go. Until then keep it in a safe but enclosed area and give it fresh food and water as well as something warm to sleep on. Try looking for a avian vet that can hep him.

    Source(s): i saved birds before
  • 8 years ago

    Until then keep it in a secure but surrounded place and provides it clean foods and water as well as something heated to rest on. Try looking for a bird vet that can hep him.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Keep her in and help her. when shes better set er free

  • 8 years ago

    Help her until she gets better :)

    Source(s): Helped Doves
  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • 8 years ago

    leave it be, it's nature

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.