Bird Help ...

[pami]

Thank you, Susan. I had never heard of pigeon racing before.

 

[Willowy]

When I was a teen, a couple of racing pigeons stayed at our place for a while. One was slightly injured (her foot was all red and swollen). We gave them hamster food (I had a pet rat) and a bowl of water. They stayed until the injured one was feeling better, I think about a week. We were hoping they'd stay....we really liked them. The injured one was especially sweet and let us hold her.

 

[arlyn]

Depending on your age, if you grew up in South Dakota, those may have been birds from mine and my brother's loft

We would take them with us from Genoa Nebraska and race them home from Redfield SD

 

[deedeemay]

That bird sure is a young one isn't he?

As a kid we used to see the trucks go past our home carrying crates full of racing pigeons, they would take them up to Arundel Castle grounds and let them loose from there, we would see them fly over sometimes

Pity they don't do it any more...