Rescue - 2nd January, 2025
Rehabilitation - 3rd January, 2025
Rescue
Dumped at a tyre shop with no indication of how they ended up orphaned, these feral pigeons will now be with us for the next few weeks, being hand-reared.
Rehabilitation
The adorable duo, nicknamed Mich & Elin (we deserve an award for these ones), are just days old, evident by the presence of their egg tooth. What in the world is an egg tooth? Well it's a temporary, sharp projection at their end of their beak that allows them to break out of their egg, cool, right? The egg tooth disappears after a few days, sometimes longer.
The siblings will grow up in each other’s company, vital if the duo is to be successfully returned to life in the wild. Currently the pair are being tube-fed four times a day, this helps replicate how the parents would be rearing them. In a week or so they will be introduced to seed! Initially our young pigeon patients, like to play with the seed, and their endearing rolling around of the seed, eventually leads to them picking one up and eating it. And then, they're off! We will give you an update in a few weeks of how much they will have grown!
