Well my feral rescue (Cloud) has turned out to be a she rather than a he, which I originally thought Cloud was a he. I have two homing pigeon brothers, which live with Cloud. They are all free range 24/7.
Cloud recently reached maturity, and took a liking to my dominant male (Pebbles). Feeding, preening, and recently mating plus sharing the same pigeon hole. My submissive male (Silver) is now being bullied by Pebbles, I assume to defend his mate. This is not physical fighting, just dominant cooing and sometimes a short chase which usually ends in Silver flying off and Pebbles not following. It isnt constant, it happens maybe once a day, but once a day is still too much. If the fighting escalates I will have to separate them which I would prefer not to do.
Silver and Pebbles used to get along fine and be buddies until Cloud came along, but now Silver looks lonely and I need the fighting to stop.
I'm not willing to rehome anyone, so I thought maybe an idea instead could be to get Silver a mate, which hopefully would stop Silver being lonely, and Pebbles not seeing him as a rival. But there are problems with idea, being that I can only find ungendered sibling pairs of pigeons for sale in my area. Which, I would have to take a gamble on gender, I understand it is rare for pigeons to have chicks of different gender, so it would either be two males or two females. Which would again, leave a bird out. But, if I had a large(r) flock, would they not be so aggressive, since it is not a 1 pigeon vs 1 pigeon scenario?
Any ideas are appreciated, this is only the idea I could think of today.
Cloud recently reached maturity, and took a liking to my dominant male (Pebbles). Feeding, preening, and recently mating plus sharing the same pigeon hole. My submissive male (Silver) is now being bullied by Pebbles, I assume to defend his mate. This is not physical fighting, just dominant cooing and sometimes a short chase which usually ends in Silver flying off and Pebbles not following. It isnt constant, it happens maybe once a day, but once a day is still too much. If the fighting escalates I will have to separate them which I would prefer not to do.
Silver and Pebbles used to get along fine and be buddies until Cloud came along, but now Silver looks lonely and I need the fighting to stop.
I'm not willing to rehome anyone, so I thought maybe an idea instead could be to get Silver a mate, which hopefully would stop Silver being lonely, and Pebbles not seeing him as a rival. But there are problems with idea, being that I can only find ungendered sibling pairs of pigeons for sale in my area. Which, I would have to take a gamble on gender, I understand it is rare for pigeons to have chicks of different gender, so it would either be two males or two females. Which would again, leave a bird out. But, if I had a large(r) flock, would they not be so aggressive, since it is not a 1 pigeon vs 1 pigeon scenario?
Any ideas are appreciated, this is only the idea I could think of today.
