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Baby Pigeon coming soon!
19Feb2003 Filed under: JournalishIf the pigeon gestation period is 19 days, that means our porch pigeon should be hatching any day now! Jacqueline and I have a little arrangement…I only water the plant she roosts in at night and I talk to her in her native tongue (French, naturellement!). In return, she just sits there while I water the plant. It’s remarkable, really. I coo in French and she hangs out while I slowly pour water into the pot, just inches away from her, ensuring that the water soaks into the soil instead of flowing underneath the nest.
I wonder if baby pidgies are cute?
Update, June 2005:
Hey everyone coming to this page from Google: I am not a pigeon expert. I don’t know anything about baby pigeons. Please stop posting questions! I can’t help you.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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kate
February 19th, 2003 at 8:50 am
That’s an age old question!
See this explanation.
jessica
February 19th, 2003 at 11:36 am
hey ariel: long time no talk, glad you are well.
anyways, i can tell you, from an experience with a pigeon nest on my own window ledge, that baby pigeons are definitively NOT cute. they are bald and veiny and apparently not too bright, as our own little one (nicknamed ugly) eventually beat himself to death on the window he was born next to while trying to learn to fly. it was a sad day and a very disturbing image.
rip ugly.
Ariel
February 19th, 2003 at 12:19 pm
Wow! Jessica! For those keeping track at home, Jessica and I worked together in Seattle at MJ Feet, the Birkenstock Store from ‘95 to ‘96.
Sad story about Ugly…I hope our baby pidge (who’s name will be Jacqui, of course) fares better.
Dave
February 19th, 2003 at 12:45 pm
Does your webcam reach the planter? You need the hatch-cam!
Echo
February 19th, 2003 at 12:56 pm
I agree Dave!! Where’s our pictures of porch pigeon?
timothy
February 19th, 2003 at 1:48 pm
having raised pigeons commercially for 10 yrs i can say that 65% of all baby pigeons are cute, 30% are not cute and 5% are not committed.
Ariel
February 19th, 2003 at 2:03 pm
The webcam doesn’t stretch that far, sadly, and my digital camera was sent back to Fuji for repairs several weeks ago. Not much to see, really…just a pideon with her feathers fluffed to full capacity, sitting in a large potted plant. It is cool, though, how the plant almost seems to be growing OUT of her.
philippe
February 20th, 2003 at 7:10 am
Ok, I’m late on this, but please don’t call the baby jacqui. Because
1- Jacqui doesn’t exist.
2- You don’t want to be called a Jacky.
priya
June 13th, 2003 at 5:15 am
what we call baby pigeon?
priya
June 13th, 2003 at 5:15 am
what we call baby pigeon?
Rachelle
October 13th, 2004 at 1:29 am
all my pigeons that i own have fallen out of their nests of and i took them home and looked after them . imade them homing pigeons insted of ferrel pests in the city.i love my pigeons and now there having babys of there own.
Rachelle
October 13th, 2004 at 1:39 am
i watched a baby pigeon hatch .i was going to hand rare it .i left them at home for my mum to feed but the food went into its lungs.it later died.i was vary disapointed when i got home from school.so i made it a grave with flowers on top with a padlepop cross.
Stacey
April 28th, 2005 at 7:04 am
I had a pigeon lay a few eggs on my balcony but a crow came and ate them. It was like the Amityville horror on my balcony. Will the pigeon lay more eggs in the same nest? Do pigeons lay more than one cluster of eggs a year?
Thanks
Ann
May 20th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
I’ve got a little mother who has made a nest on my porch light. I haven’t turned on my porch light ever since I noticed the nest because I don’t want to fry her eggs. It’s been about 3 weeks now and I’m wondering how long before I can safely use my porch light again? Also, I’m discouraging visitors from using the front door because I don’t want to disturb the mother. Help! How much longer will I be without the use of my front door?
1249
June 16th, 2005 at 4:59 am
Baby pigeon about 3 weeks old on our porch. Woke up this am and noticed it was limp… and not breathing! Doesn’t appear injured but clearly it has died. What happened? (mom and dad pigeon were very vigilant parents. Still sat on it after ot was born though)