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Buy a plastic canary nest. The wire nests are useless, for the birds get their nails caught in them. This can result in a lost leg and other tragedies. Felt inserts keep babies warm and the nest clean, fine dry grass makes the best nest material, but shredded paper or burlap is OK. DON'T use the fine threads sold as nesting material.
they dont need nesting material, and many will just kick it out anyway. cotton balls could be swallowed by the babies, or wrap around the legs of both babies and parents. use a pet store bought nest box; the babies will be kept warm by the mom. she will stay in the nest and feed the babies, and will be fed by dad.
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Either one will work just fine if they are of good quality. you could always do what i did. give them all three and let them choose. i figure they are sitting on the nest, let em build it how they want keep your loft clean and dry and you wont have any problems. use paper nest bowls and throw the whole deal away when it starts getting dirty
The hens immediately rejected their nest bowls and chose to nest directly on the blanket. When I insisted on putting a nest bowl in Grace's nestbox (on top of the blanket), Grace made her point by specifically, accurately, and repeatedly pooping IN the bowl. And this is a bird who normally NEVER poops inside her nest box.
They don't actually make a nest out of typical nesting material like other birds,if there are other things available like a plant pot as it works for a nest bowl. If the compost is actually dry and won't rot, like little pieces of moss or roots, it won't hurt.
A lot of birds don't want to bother with the shorter 4 inch needles. They like the longer and heavier ones that are about 8 or 9 inches or so long. I let my birds build their own nest, as they enjoy it, and that's an important part of their nesting routine, but they won't use the shorter, lighter ones like that.
We got two of our birds from the feedstore but our original bird was a rescue that my husband got from the bridge. He works on the I-5 Interstate bridge and when birds get injured or fall from the nest he brings them home and we try to help them. So now 2 of our birds are bridge birds and two are from the feedstore but one of those died.
Here is a listing of 5 of the more popular pigeon supply stores in the United States. They will have everything you will need to ensure that your birds have the proper medications, loft supplies, books, bands, dummy eggs, perches, nesting material, feed, nest boxes, vitamins etc.
If you have a really sick bird, you need the correct antibiotic, in my opinion. Certainly doing you can in the first place to keep your birds healthy helps by providing a clean environment without crowding, fresh food and water, fresh air, plenty of nest boxes and material for the birds to build nests and enough flat perches.