I need pigeon help...

hey guys, so i still have my pigeon. I can't keep him, but I have named him Lawrence Howard (i felt he deserved a fancy name ). I found him in a parking lot covered in feather lice and at the point of starvation. I caught him with a towel and took him home. his leg band indicates he is under a year old, and i believe he is a male. The feather lice is gone, and he has put on weight. He is a very sweet bird, not tame, but could easily tame down with some time. the problem is, I'm stuck. I have no where to keep him but in the basement. He is in a small cage, the cleanest one i have available, and he's still battling a respiratory illness (so i cant put him upstairs or near my other birds). i feel so bad, i want him to be in a roomy cage with sunshine and other birds, but i'm out of options. I have had him for 4 months, and though I've had offers, I have not been able to find a home for him. If anyone here wants him or knows someone who does, he's free to a good home and comes with a bag of pigeon food and grit, I might even be able to provide a cage. I will treat him for his respiratory illness before he goes. Thanks for any help~
ps- just getting the word out to other bird people would help!

Were you not able to locate his home by the leg band???

if you go to a farm supply store, see if they have Gallimycin. It's not expensive and is used for upper respiratory infections in doves, pigeons, and chickens.
that is what I used on Puff,( I thought it was Doxicycline) ...I currently have my 3 rescued canaries on Gallimycin as well. Only add a pinch to their drinking water.

An upper respiratory infection will eventually kill a bird, due to the stress of them not feeling well for a prolonged period of time. good luck Ann!!

MikeyTN said:

Were you not able to locate his home by the leg band???

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we're trying, but the band also indicated he was from a pet store, so i don't know if they keep track. i did get a guys email, and he said he could look up registered band numbers for me. fingers crossed !

I hope you find his owner! Hope everything goes well for you.

i think i'll put up a flier for him, no picture, just a band number. i'm hoping the owner will recognize the number. i don't want people to think "free bird!" and just take him.

So it turns out, Lawrence is a female roller pigeon, about 90% sure. I found a new home for her with a pigeon racer who told me she was a female roller. He said he won't race her, he'll set her up as a breeder instead or try to look up the band number to find the owner. Now she's in a good home with a whole flock of pigeons, and will never be raced again .
Btw, since she's probably a female, Lawrence has become Lauren

I'm glad Lauren got to be with her kind once again!!!

Oh! That's lovely! Well done you for all your hard work and diligence in helping poor Lauren!

Pigeons really *need* to be with a flock. I started out with one, who kept nicking off to be with the big flock from the next block. I got her a mate and they bred, but I still had a path worn to the bloke's place who owned the big flock: my pair kept absconding whenever he let his lot out to fly! (Mine were not caged: they just hung around at my place). Eventually, I was *forced* to invest in a bloody big flock of my own, just so I could keep the original pair at home! LOL! Best time of my life, that was: there's nothing quite like the sensation of having your own flock flying inches above your head and knowing they'll all come home to you! Anyway, that's when I learned that a solitary pigeon is a very unnatural, unhappy one: they really, really need that flock for stability. I hope Lauren lays many eggs in her new flock and raises gorgeous babies.