mickacoo: Sometime in September, a gentleman lost his home and surrendered his flock of 12 pigeons and a golden pheasant to Marin Humane Society. They are extremely lucky birds to wind up at this shelter where, rather than live indoors and isolated each in their own too small cage (as most shelter pigeons are housed), they get to live together as a flock in a large barn stall with an attached, mesh-covered outside area where they can lounge and sun/rain bathe and be birds. They’ve been doing great here. Felix has new feathers coming in and his breathing is improved. Harper will be going to the vet this week to have her cyst removed. They’ve been relaxing and settling in. It’s as if Harper was making a diamond out of the ingrown flight feathers and ruptured cyst that she had been coping with for a long time (I’d guess over a year). I can’t imagine how uncomfortable it must have been for her to put up with. The thing was big (about the size of a small lady’s thumb) and It was hard as a rock. The cross-hatches in the image below are from a saw that was used to try and fracture it. No bird likes having crap on their feathers and I’m sure in addition to the pain and pressure Harper felt (imagine the world’s worst ingrown toenail), she was also very annoyed to have this impossible-to-remove imperfection getting in the way of her preening. For updates and more on Felix and Harper’s story, please check out the Rescue Report.
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Sometime in September, a gentleman lost his home and surrendered his flock of 12 pigeons and a golden pheasant to Marin Humane Society. They are extremely lucky birds to wind up at this shelter where, rather than live indoors and isolated each in their own too small cage (as most shelter pigeons are housed), they get to live together as a flock in a large barn stall with an attached, mesh-covered outside area where they can lounge and sun/rain bathe and be birds.

They’ve been doing great here. Felix has new feathers coming in and his breathing is improved. Harper will be going to the vet this week to have her cyst removed. They’ve been relaxing and settling in.

It’s as if Harper was making a diamond out of the ingrown flight feathers and ruptured cyst that she had been coping with for a long time (I’d guess over a year). I can’t imagine how uncomfortable it must have been for her to put up with. The thing was big (about the size of a small lady’s thumb) and It was hard as a rock. The cross-hatches in the image below are from a saw that was used to try and fracture it. No bird likes having crap on their feathers and I’m sure in addition to the pain and pressure Harper felt (imagine the world’s worst ingrown toenail), she was also very annoyed to have this impossible-to-remove imperfection getting in the way of her preening.

For updates and more on Felix and Harper’s story, please check out the Rescue Report.

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