Nervous Birds

[883girl]

I've just taken delivery of six adult logans and three squeakers.  I know they need time to settle in but they seem really nervous when ever i go near them.  Is this normal?

 

Any advice would be much appreciated. :-/

[DOVEScot]

I've just taken delivery of six adult logans and three squeakers.  I know they need time to settle in but they seem really nervous when ever i go near them.  Is this normal?

 

Any advice would be much appreciated. :-/

 

Definately, they will have to get used to you and their new surroundings.

Chickadee spends the most time in the loft and when she goes in the birds ignore her or land on her, when I go in they are different, maybe because I don't feed them :-/

[883girl]

Thanks Dovescot, would trying to feed them by hand help or will they be to wary of me to eat this way.  I guess time spent with them is the important thing.

[Guest shadow]

keep them slightly hungry and feed them by hand make any movement very slowly give the the odd peanut they will take them out of your hand as they get more sure of you did you get them from jc if you have they will be wary as you know they are kept in lage aviary's and rarely handled good luck

[883girl]

Oh forgot - is it okay to put squeakers in with the others or should i seperate them?

[DOVEScot]

Thanks Dovescot, would trying to feed them by hand help or will they be to wary of me to eat this way.  I guess time spent with them is the important thing.

 

Our doves in the cotes that are understandably free flying, come down as soon as Chickadee goes out the door and land on her looking for peanuts, they don't with me and the kids, they know the difference

 

 

[883girl]

Got them from a man called Mike in Woverhampton, said a friend of his in Portsmouth had passed my details on to him.  He did say they have a large stock - flies 120 birds i think, so i guess they may not have been handled much, though they seemed quieter last night.

 

Possibly the stock birds won't get used to me too quick but I am hoping the squeakers will.

[883girl]

What a lovely picture dovescot - i hope one day that will be me as lucky as chickadee!

 

How do you keep them so clean?  

[883girl]

When you talk of peanuts do you mean ones you get from petshops

[REDCHEQHEN]

When you talk of peanuts do you mean ones you get from petshops

 

Human consumption ones - they're better quality

[883girl]

salter or dry roasted?

[REDCHEQHEN]

salter or dry roasted?

 

;D ;D ;D

 

redskins   :P

[883girl]

Gonna be a fight then, cause i like them too!

[DOVEScot]

When you talk of peanuts do you mean ones you get from petshops

 

Human consumption ones are better but more expensive, we feed wild bird ones the same as ones from the petshops and have had no problems, Chickadee splits them and if the are bad bins them. You still get bad ones in the human consumption ones

 

[jazzman]

2 right there m8

[883girl]

sorry to be thick but do you peel the red skin off or give them the whole thing, do you break it up so they can eat it

[DOVEScot]

sorry to be thick but do you peel the red skin off or give them the whole thing, do you break it up so they can eat it

 

Naw, the discard the skin themselves, we break them up to check the inside, also when feeding there is a chance the young may choke

[883girl]

;)Thank you kind sir!