Manly
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Manly is an all white homing pigeon (the kind they use for "dove releases") but several of his flght feathers have been cut, as have his tail feathers. The wing-clipping apparently did not keep him home but did impair his flight enough so that he got lost and picked up as a stray rather than being able to "home". I brought him home from SFACC where he had been named "Lovely". And he is lovely but when I opened his cage door he was strutting and I just couldn't call him anything else except Manly.
He stayed in my coop for a night and is now being fostered, along with Simone and Teddy & Chase, by MickaCoo volunteer Cheryl. He is available for adoption. As a homer, he'll need to either be kept in an aviary or "resettled" to a new homing location.
Story to continue as time permits.
4/27/10 UPDATE
Well, the adorable homing pij formerly named Manly is going to get me kicked out of the Pigeon Rescuers' Union, I think. In my own defense, I am the first to admit (shout, whine, blurt to strangers) that I HAVE TOO MANY PIJ!
In Manly's case, I clearly wasn't paying close enough attention.
As I initially mentioned, Manly's reaction when I opened the shelter cage door- strutting and prancing- was interpreted by me as male behavior when it turns out, it was really just social behavior.
She tried again to communicate with me when I brought her home and put her down in my coop. She was greeted in the usual way- by all the cocks (who I'm either going to start calling toms or bucks, I haven't decided yet) but responded in an unusual way. Rather than just participate in the excitement, she kept coming to hurried, harried me and looking meaningfully into my face.
I noticed but not enough. I took a couple of quick pictures and thought to myself, "Hmm, he might be tame" and then I left her out there to fend for herself while I ran in to tend to all the other many creatures I'm currently caring for.
Two days later, I brought Manly and the racer I named Simone (who is it turns out male), to MickaCoo volunteer Cheryl's home to foster. As I dropped them off and rushed away, I mentioned that Manly might be tame.
Well, that was an understatement. Manly is not only a hen, but she is a totally tame lovebug and she and Cheryl pretty much fell instantly in love. From the aviary, Manly would crane her head to try and watch Cheryl move around the backyard. She would come towards the window and start cooing when Cheryl called to her.
Soon, the two were spending all their free time together and Cheryl adopted Manly!
On Saturday, 4/24, Cheryl brought Manly to Mickaboo's Avian Vision & Lighting Course (highly recommended for anybody that has a bird!) and she charmed everybody there to pieces.
On Monday, the pigeon that I named Manly layed an egg!
She is now called Mandee, short for Amanda.
She is impossibly cute and I'm SO glad that I made room to bring "one more" out of the shelter and into a wonderful adopter's home.
Manly is an all white homing pigeon (the kind they use for "dove releases") but several of his flght feathers have been cut, as have his tail feathers. The wing-clipping apparently did not keep him home but did impair his flight enough so that he got lost and picked up as a stray rather than being able to "home". I brought him home from SFACC where he had been named "Lovely". And he is lovely but when I opened his cage door he was strutting and I just couldn't call him anything else except Manly.
He stayed in my coop for a night and is now being fostered, along with Simone and Teddy & Chase, by MickaCoo volunteer Cheryl. He is available for adoption. As a homer, he'll need to either be kept in an aviary or "resettled" to a new homing location.
Story to continue as time permits.
4/27/10 UPDATE
Well, the adorable homing pij formerly named Manly is going to get me kicked out of the Pigeon Rescuers' Union, I think. In my own defense, I am the first to admit (shout, whine, blurt to strangers) that I HAVE TOO MANY PIJ!
In Manly's case, I clearly wasn't paying close enough attention.
As I initially mentioned, Manly's reaction when I opened the shelter cage door- strutting and prancing- was interpreted by me as male behavior when it turns out, it was really just social behavior.
She tried again to communicate with me when I brought her home and put her down in my coop. She was greeted in the usual way- by all the cocks (who I'm either going to start calling toms or bucks, I haven't decided yet) but responded in an unusual way. Rather than just participate in the excitement, she kept coming to hurried, harried me and looking meaningfully into my face.
I noticed but not enough. I took a couple of quick pictures and thought to myself, "Hmm, he might be tame" and then I left her out there to fend for herself while I ran in to tend to all the other many creatures I'm currently caring for.
Two days later, I brought Manly and the racer I named Simone (who is it turns out male), to MickaCoo volunteer Cheryl's home to foster. As I dropped them off and rushed away, I mentioned that Manly might be tame.
Well, that was an understatement. Manly is not only a hen, but she is a totally tame lovebug and she and Cheryl pretty much fell instantly in love. From the aviary, Manly would crane her head to try and watch Cheryl move around the backyard. She would come towards the window and start cooing when Cheryl called to her.
Soon, the two were spending all their free time together and Cheryl adopted Manly!
On Saturday, 4/24, Cheryl brought Manly to Mickaboo's Avian Vision & Lighting Course (highly recommended for anybody that has a bird!) and she charmed everybody there to pieces.
On Monday, the pigeon that I named Manly layed an egg!
She is now called Mandee, short for Amanda.
She is impossibly cute and I'm SO glad that I made room to bring "one more" out of the shelter and into a wonderful adopter's home.
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