When do baby pigeons stop being fed by their mother and start eating seeds?
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at
8:09 am
My father found baby pigeons in our swamp cooler and he said that the parents wouldnt come back because it had our sent on it already. We started taing care of it and have had it for about a week and a half. When can i stop hand feeding it and start letting it eat seeds?
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One of the best ways to try to get them to wean is to sprinkle the seed on the ground and not into a bowl. The roundness of the seed apparently kicks off the pecking instinct.
I’ve hand reared literally hundreds of pigeons over the years – as the bird gets to about four weeks old, I begin to cut the morning feed and leave them to peck around during the day as they get hungry — it’s really no different from their parents beginning to cut back on the feeding a bit as they get to about 34 days or so – I always give them a full evening feed
http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/pigeongenetics/basicpigeoncare.html
anywhere from 6 to 12 weeks some wean quicker then others