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pigeon contraception

Post by greg jacobs » Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:08 pm

Way to many pigeons. These poor guys that can't catch a pigeon. And I have more than I could ever use. A coop for white homers, coop for breeding ferals. Coop for young ferals that have long since turned into breeders. Young ferals that want to live with the white homers. A stray homer that mated up with a red feral. Dang pigeon food is costing more than the dog food.

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Re: pigeon contraception

Post by RichK » Tue Apr 28, 2015 3:57 pm

They do make pigeon contraception, it's called lead.

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Post by aulrich » Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:13 pm

Wooden eggs

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Post by ezzy333 » Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:47 pm

aulrich wrote:Wooden eggs
Not contraception, just delays them. Best way is separate them.

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Post by donne » Tue Apr 28, 2015 6:09 pm

You obviously don't have a Hawk problem! Consider yourself lucky.

White birds, Homers or whatever go to the auction. I'm sure the buyers double their cost............

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Post by greg jacobs » Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:37 am

Had 2 cooper hawks around last winter but haven't seen them. Must of Migrated back to the forest. Got 8 different colored ferals from the guys at work. By the end of the summer I had 19 young that I was training the pup with. Started letting the captive 8 fly. Gradually last 6 of those. Hawks or went back wild. They raised enough through the winter months to replace the ones lost to the hawks. Got 8 white homers in the middle of the summer. Lost two to hawks but have 15 now. Comes a point the hawk losses don't hurt you much. How long will they sit on fake eggs? Seems like they know when there is a problem with eggs. They seem to abandon them and start over pretty quickly. Going to start by removing 1 egg from every pair. We like to let them fly after we get home from work. A cold beverage and a lawn chair watching them fly is a nice way to wind down. Separating them we would have to fly only half every day. Probably another coop for young and a craigs list add. That will make 4 coops.

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Post by aulrich » Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:54 pm

I had to look it up but it seems they will set on wooden eggs a few weeks anyways. For me training losses, lead or a fish bonker keep my population in check. One thing I have not tried yet is squabbing the extras I would imagine they would taste like quail or Cornish game hens they get high quality feed.

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Post by ezzy333 » Wed Apr 29, 2015 1:22 pm

greg jacobs wrote:Had 2 cooper hawks around last winter but haven't seen them. Must of Migrated back to the forest. Got 8 different colored ferals from the guys at work. By the end of the summer I had 19 young that I was training the pup with. Started letting the captive 8 fly. Gradually last 6 of those. Hawks or went back wild. They raised enough through the winter months to replace the ones lost to the hawks. Got 8 white homers in the middle of the summer. Lost two to hawks but have 15 now. Comes a point the hawk losses don't hurt you much. How long will they sit on fake eggs? Seems like they know when there is a problem with eggs. They seem to abandon them and start over pretty quickly. Going to start by removing 1 egg from every pair. We like to let them fly after we get home from work. A cold beverage and a lawn chair watching them fly is a nice way to wind down. Separating them we would have to fly only half every day. Probably another coop for young and a craigs list add. That will make 4 coops.

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They will usually set on eggs for about 20 days and then they will start over. Will take at least 5 days for them to start laying again and then you go through the whole cycle again. Taking one egg would work if you just want to slow them down.
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Post by polmaise » Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:45 pm

Call me 'old fashioned' . :roll:
Separate the cock birds from the hens :lol:

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Post by greg jacobs » Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:53 pm

Separating them. Is that what most people do?

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Post by ezzy333 » Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:02 pm

greg jacobs wrote:Separating them. Is that what most people do?

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That's how most breeders do it but I don't know what most dog trainers do.
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Post by V-John » Tue May 12, 2015 7:50 am

ezzy333 wrote:
greg jacobs wrote:Separating them. Is that what most people do?

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That's how most breeders do it but I don't know what most dog trainers do.
x2. I'm in the process of seperating them out now, actually. Once they finish this round, they are seperated out.

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