The intention at this point is to allow them to build up their wing muscles. Make sure they are still in an enclosed area. Although, you may want to point them in the right direction so they know what they should be tucking into!Īt this point, you will likely need to allow them out for a couple of hours per day. The pigeons should instinctively peck at it. There is little that you need to do here too. Instead, they can start to eat small seeds and grain. When they are three weeks old, the baby pigeons should no longer need the crop milk. The baby pigeon will need to be fed every few hours, so make sure you stay on the ball here! If the parents are not involved, then make sure that you buy the special formula for pigeon babies and mix it up properly. This should be more than enough to keep the pigeons warm.
This means ensuring that the pigeon boxes are in a nice, warm location without any damp in the air. The parents will still be doing their best to keep them warm, but you should also do the same. After all, they are born with barely any feathers. Your main concern will be ensuring that the baby pigeons are kept nice and warm. The parents will mostly do the work.Īs long as you are giving them a good diet, then pretty much everything else will fall into place naturally. If you have the parents with the baby pigeons, then there is little that you need to do to care for the baby pigeons. If you are raising the pigeons yourself, then you will just give them the seeds and grain just like you would with any other pigeon in your flock. In the wild, this will be brought to the nest by the parents. Instead, they will feast upon seeds and grain. This is going to be very similar to applesauce in the consistency.Īs the baby pigeon starts to get a little bit older, it will stop eating this crop milk. If you are raising baby pigeons on your own, then you will be able to purchase special formulas that can be mixed up to be almost like crop milk. It is the only way they can give the baby pigeons exactly what they need. Of course, this is produced from whatever the parents eat, so it is vital to ensure that the parents have a decent diet at this time. It also has the exact nutrients that the baby pigeon needs to thrive. It has been digested just enough to ensure that the baby pigeons are able to eat it without any issues. You can just assume that is regurgitated food from the mother and father. It is difficult to explain what crop milk actually is. Instead, it is taken directly from the mouth of their parent. Unlike with mammals, they are not going to be taking it from nipples, though. This is produced by both the mother and father. In the wild, baby pigeons will eat something known as ‘crop milk’.
Baby Pigeons (photo by Emilian Robert Vicol)