help needed with injured pigeon

[kev01293]

hi,a neighbour called tonight about half hour after my birds had come in from excercise to say that one of my pigeons was in their garden and couldnt fly, i collected the pigeon (a yearling) and found that it had one wing hanging down which i assume is a broken wing? ive never had a pigeon with a broken wing before so do not know to treat it? any advice would be much appreciated as i obviously dont want to see the pigeon in pain and want to mend the wing if possible

                                many thanks     kevin :-/

[GREENGRASS]

kevin it may not be a broken wing, it may just have had a bang on the wires or a branch etc, keep it locked in for a few days and see if there is any improvement. try keep it in a box so it cant move the wing.

[madmaxlofts]

kevin it may not be a broken wing, it may just have had a bang on the wires or a branch etc, keep it locked in for a few days and see if there is any improvement. try keep it in a box so it cant move the wing.

 

this also stops the other birds fighting with it

they can be bullies if they see a pigeon ill

[kev01293]

thanx greengrass and madmax 4 your replies, i will put her in a basket for a couple of days to see how she goes? if shes only taken a knock how long do u think it would be before she starts to improve?  kev :-/

[Flyer]

murry & mills sell an Injury Hammock which i think is for this sort of thing not sure, but it might help

[kev01293]

thanx flyer

[Guest]

Over the past few years i've had one or 2 that have had banged wings. I had one cock last year, he was 8th National , year before last. he couldnt even fly to his box, but now he doesnt seem to bad, so i am rearing a few youngsters off him.

I had a good hen who the hawk hit onto the ground that hard she never flew after, but she is still there 2 years later, i use her as my trapper. as she is now very tame and can fly to 2 boxes up so is ideal to trap the widowhood cocks on race day.

[stevebelbin]

I had a cock with a bad wing the year b4 last, he came back hawked, he picked up, and managed to fly again, but with a flight-limp (cant think of any other word to describe it), he raced again after this but he would always come back late and flying funny. So he now is used in a feeder for my mate in his stock loft  . Had another one came out of the training basket late and hit a car, he made it home, but was badly bruised and he never recovered well enough to fly and is again in the mates stock loft (gutted when that happened as he was destined for bourges and had been a fantastic bird b4 that, but he has bred good birds for my mate). Enough waffling the reason for telling you the above is because Ive been told that once they have problem with the wing they very rarely heal, so it may be prudent to put it to stock and use it as a feeder  :-/

[barlbylofts]

i had a bird found in a garden a few doors up from me we also thought it had a brocken wing. i did as greengrass said put it in a box and it was fine in a few days and went on to race well