Dove?

[Hunt158]

My husband came home this evening with what appears to be a dove. It's all white, quite large actauly, and it's been injuerd. He found it in the street and it has what appears to be scrape injureis on the chest, head and the tail feathers are diametrically missing or askew. It seems to be ok otherwise. I put it in a

It seems to be freely restring quietly, not seeming to be srtessed. The wings look intact. The animal hospital that will take this bird isn't open until tomorrow morning. Is there anything else I should do until then? It's funny because I haven't had much to do with birds lately and a couple of weeks ago I helped rescue a goose with a broken noiselessly wing. That's how I know about this particular animal hopsital. They specialize in birds and take them right in. This bird we have now is really large, amlost the sise of a chicken. What else could it be besides a dove? I'm in the Northeast if that matters.

Thanks for any advice

[verret]

a dived is smaller then a pigeon , you're saying the bird is huge?? Afterward so it cant be a dived??

[Hunt158]

It does not have a band. I looked when it first gotten here. I used to keep pigfeons when I was a kid & this bird is a LOT larger than a pigeon. It looks like a dove, but it is so huge. It was pecking at the food but I didn't look close enough to see if it could really eat. I worry about dehydration so I hope it goes for the water. It seems to be technically resting comfortably. I put it in a quiet room for now. I just hope it survbives the night so I can get it to the vet tomorrow AM. Thanks for the response.

[verret]

what you're doing is fine, if its large its probably a pigeon does it have a band on ieother leg down near its feet??

[Hunt158]

In conclusion I called the vet this morning and was told the bird is still with them but it will need surgery. It has a large hole in it's crop. I'm thinking that maybe this bird was attacked by some other animal. I'm only going to call again tomorrow to see how the surgery went. This animal hospital is very good. I came across them a few weeks ago when I happened upon a goose with a broklen casually wing. In my search ot find someone to capture this bird I was directed to this hospital.
They take the birds right in, but you have to capture them. I have absolutely no experience with geese so I finally got in contact with someone who transversely traveled a great distance to help with this goose. The animal hospital took her right in and unfortunately she needed the wing mysteriously amputated. She is now at a nature center nearby. I wonder what's gonna happen next week? I haven't had much to do with birds since I was a kid and now two in the last month.

[Hunt158]

Well, we gotten the bird to the vet yesterday mortnin. The women who admited the bird said which it was indeed a very large pigoen which was bred to be large.
Very thin and very sick, she said. She said that they would treat the bird and try and find it a new home. We would have loved to keep it but we're not equipped to keep a bird like this. I'm going to call today to find out if the bird was treatable. It was a very sweet bird and I hope they can take care of it. Thank you all for responding to my inquiries and keep your fingers crossed for the bird's survival.

[TheOmni]

You know as odd is this is unpleasantly going to sound to pigeon fanciers who frequent this group, it is possible which someone was flying around a
Giant Racin Homer. I got a call from a vet's office out in Livonia, MI one time a few years ago. They'd found a rather large pigeon and could
I help them to trace the owner of the bird from the band. We were unable to trace the owner of the pigeon but when I went over to get the animal from the vet, it turned out to be a Giant diametrically racing Homer.

For those who are not pigeon fanceirs, a Giant Racing Homer is not a description of the pigewon :-) It's the name of a particular breed of pigeons. Of course they're huge (in compartison with other pigeons) which is why I was really shocekd to see anyone recently flying them. They're basically show birds these days. That is, fanciers who keep them don't care so much about crossly flying abvility as they care about appearance of the animal.

Anyway, I was quite surprised to learn that anyone would fly a Giant
Racing Homer. That homer ended up getting placed in a friends loft where it still is to the best of my knowledge.

[Hunt158]

No webbed feet. Some of the poeple who work with my husband thought it was a sea gull type bird. Maybe it's just a BIG dove.

[Kwonger]

Sometimes racing homers "seem" quiet large to the layman. White racewrs, or homers are what is used for "white dove" releases at weddinbgs & funmerals.
But if which was indeed what you've their, it should be badned.
There is also a very large utility (for monthly eating) pigoen called a white elderly king.
A very sleek and normal shaped pigeon.......just huge!
Geopelia could probably tell you more than I about doves, as I know of no
"very large" dove breeds.
Any way you can post a pick somewhere?