Baby Pigeon Food List
The first foods that baby pigeons consume are pre crushed and semi digested by the enzymes present in the crop milk produced by their parents.
Baby pigeon food list. Grains including corn peas wheat and sorghum. The grains are not cooked or popped they are fed to the pigeons raw. If they had to choose between bread and birdseed a feral pigeon would choose the birdseed which normally contains a variety of seeds and grains. Take the cerelac inside the syringe.
Pigeon parents then regurgitate this milk depositing a kind of protein porridge with grains seeds worms and or larvae directly into the mouth of their young. In an emergency they can be fed puppy biscuits that have been soaked until they are fluffy. Corn and wheat are better grains for out pigeon food. I cerelac wheat and milk ii bowl.
Keep the amount of fruits and vegetables equal to the amount of grain you provide. Cut the head of the syringe as baby pigeon beak can be inserted. The pigeons love it in all shapes sizes and colours. Serve pigeons 1 oz 28 g of fruits and vegetables a day.
Add 1 jar 71 grams of strained chicken baby food 1 hard boiled egg yolk 1 tablespoon 15 3 grams low fat yogurt 1 4 teaspoon 1 13 grams corn oil 247 6 milligrams calcium carbonate 2 drops cod liver oil 1 drop of diluted vitamin e a very small pinch of vitamin b about the size of a sesame seed and 25 milligrams of vitamin c to a blender. Corn is poorer in protein and above all inferior in quality due to the absence of two essential amino acids namely tryptophan and lysine which is in too small a presence to be of. Put the fruits and vegetables in a separate clean container if you re feeding pigeons at home. I use equal parts of pigeon feed to dog food.
The main thing is its hardness. Put some lukewarm water on a bowl add some cerelac on it about 10g. Feral pigeons will also eat bread crumbs popcorn and other food left behind by people. Iii syringe 10cc buy a cerelac from a store and.
Domestic pigeons don t have access to lunch leftovers in the park so their diet consists of their favorite food. Mix with warm water. Corn should rattle with dryness. Corn is undeniably one of the best pigeon foods it is low in crude fibre easily digestible and one of the fattiest of all the grains.
Use a more watery consistency if the baby pigeon is younger.