pigeon cant fly

[mavrick]

Hi can some one please help me iv got a 6 month old pigeon and it has paired up with another young pigeon i did not plan it but it just happened, the pigeons were in there own box together and flying around the loft when yestaday i noticed the grizzle hen cant fly now and i dont know why, she looks her self walkin no problem but she looks up too fly but cant or wont flap her wings iv checked her for lumps under the wings and on her legs but nothing there but she has dull lokking wockels in stead of brite white one's it has got me baffled. so can some one please help me on this one, Cheers   :(

[gulkie]

hi

   have u tried holding it in ur hands and letting it go to see its responce,

but not to high that it may hurt it's self.?

[lawrie]

the best idea is to toss the bird from your hand, face her to the loft so if she cant/wont fly she can land on the loft roof.

[leighton1984]

sounds like para to me mate. is it only one wing and is it dropping down.

[pjc]

has she or is she about to lay?

No point in trying to make her fly especialy if she's had a bump in which case may just need rest.

[Guest Grasshopper Lofts]

Hi can some one please help me iv got a 6 month old pigeon and it has paired up with another young pigeon i did not plan it but it just happened, the pigeons were in there own box together and flying around the loft when yestaday i noticed the grizzle hen cant fly now and i dont know why, she looks her self walkin no problem but she looks up too fly but cant or wont flap her wings iv checked her for lumps under the wings and on her legs but nothing there but she has dull lokking wockels in stead of brite white one's it has got me baffled. so can some one please help me on this one, Cheers   :(

 

hi mate i have one like it myself i have had one also in the past and it was a calcium deficiency, do the birds have access to plenty of grit, i put half a cacium tab down its throat one day then half the followng day and mine was right as rain after a few more days maybe the same thing can only try.. Good lck with her

[blaz]

the best idea is to toss the bird from your hand, face her to the loft so if she cant/wont fly she can land on the loft roof.

 

how does she get down if she can,t fly :-/

[leighton1984]

you need to post a picture up as its a bit hard when you can not see what you are working with.

[lawrie]

 

how does she get down if she can,t fly :-/

 

thats the next part of the task or a set of ladders and gentle persuasion  

[shoortie]

its a calcium deficincy. not para.

[Guest bigda]

it dose resemble  a illness,  a very listless bird,  your bird is it staring   at you in a distant  losed  kind of  a way.  

[lawrie]

is this bird dying or can it be fixed?

[big blue bar]

had a yearling hen do the same earlyer this year ,just put her in her box with water and a pot to feed her and she will be fine in a couple of weeks

[billt]

Small cube of bread with marmite or bovril on straight down the throat, job sorted  

[storm rollers]

just sounds like lack of calciam to me i would try wat grasshoper sugested  

[mavrick]

i dont think its para, but the calcium deficiency sounds a possabilty where do u get the calcium tabs from and what are they called, and thanks to all who have answered to this post.

[youngboy_]

it could have an egg in it as pjc has siad!! picked her up and feel very gently does she have and egg!! if she has already laid!! and cant fly!!

its lack in calcuim and magneasium!!  and if tha doesn work!! it could be cocci!!

[Guest Grasshopper Lofts]

i dont think its para, but the calcium deficiency sounds a possabilty where do u get the calcium tabs from and what are they called, and thanks to all who have answered to this post.

 

Just go to asda or a chemist mate  its just normal calcium tabs we would use ourselves

[sean75]

could of banged it while in loft or clashed with another bird while out flying

[mavrick]

no she has not had a egg yet, but some one she could be egg bound but i have felt and she feels fine under neith and she has had bs the other month for canker and cocci so i would be suprized if cocci.

[Guest mr mrs arnold sons]

it is 100% Calcium thats all

[youngboy_]

sounds like lackin in something is all!!

hopefully thats all it is!! i had a hen like than last year gave her calcuim and pigeon tonic for a few days she was grand after about a week!

[mavrick]

I would like to thank every body again for answering to this post thanks again. yours hadge

[OLDYELLOW]

 

hi mate i have one like it myself i have had one also in the past and it was a calcium deficiency, do the birds have access to plenty of grit, i put half a cacium tab down its throat one day then half the followng day and mine was right as rain after a few more days maybe the same thing can only try.. Good lck with her

 

thats my guess great advice also add yoghurt to water does them world of good

[ap2010]

Hi

 

I went to look for these Calcium tablets but couldnt find any in Sainsbury's. I do give my rollers grit and the minerals.

 

Does anyone have any spare that they can post? Pm me if you can.

 

Many thanks