Baby Pigeon Food

Baby pigeons can be fed on kaytee exact baby formula egg food natural flavoured complan available in the uk or chick crumbs that have been soaked in hot not boiling water for half an hour blended and passed through a sieve.

Baby pigeon food.

Follow the instructions provided on the package in order to prepare the formula. Pull it back every once and a while to check how full its crop is and to let it get some air. It will grow in no time. Mix the baby bird formula with water.

Both male and female adult pigeons produce use their crops to produce this milk which is then fed to chicks by regurgitation. Keep bits of food small and in proportion to the bird s size. Hold the baby over the egg cup and tilt both at an angle. Mix dry baby food with some water making sure it doesn t get soggy and feed the bird with a pointed syringe.

Fill the syringe with the formula. Cut or crush food appropriately to suit the bird s size. Place food in an egg cup or another small cup. If it s late and you don t have dry baby food you can use oatmeal.

Pigeon parents then regurgitate this milk depositing a kind of protein porridge with grains seeds worms and or larvae directly into the mouth of their young. The best food for a fledgling pigeon is a commercial baby bird formula. All dry food should be softened before being offered to a baby bird. The first foods that baby pigeons consume are pre crushed and semi digested by the enzymes present in the crop milk produced by their parents.

Just grind it mix it with water and feed the bird every half hour from dawn to dusk. Very small birds need very tiny bites. Allow the pigeon to dip its head into the cup and pull up food. Food should be offered at room temperature only never warmed or heated and also never refrigerated or chilled.

Use a more watery consistency if the baby pigeon is younger. Pigeon chicks eat a nutritious substance called pigeon milk. Feeding a fledgling pigeon 1. Homemade baby pigeon food youtube i use equal parts of pigeon feed to dog food.

Mix with warm water.