u/Furby__Rocker

Hello everyone, I need help with a fledgling pigeon I recently rescued

It's a standard rock dove/pigeon and he's about 25-28 days old according to a friend of mine

My main concern is in terms of eating, I gave him a small bowl of pigeon mix seeds with some warm water to soften the seeds but, I'm worried he's not eating much if at all, but drinks almost the entire small water dish??

I'm not sure what to do or how to make sure he's alright! He is pretty scared of touch still but is slowly warming up but I don't wanna force feed to not stress him out too much

He's alright looking otherwise, clean, no mites and overall good but I'm just worried about him generally

If anyone has any advice on what I should do please let me know, or send me a dm! : ]

Cheers

So for context, these 2 have never interacted at all besides hearing each other for months now

Kiwi, the yellow & green one, went into Teal's cage and this happened outta nowhere, and yes I did seperate them immediately after recording this short clip!

I was actually planning to house these 2 alongside Kiwi's sister & another budgie I recently inherented [once she's healed], all in one larger flight cage than what they have rn! They have flight cages currently but for all 4 I'd need something like what my conures have

They all share the same bird room but just different cages currently

TLDR this was their first face to face interaction and it's making me worry that they're not going to be compatible cage mates in the future? Not sure if this was normal or what exactly

Yesterday I picked up a Dragonfruit from a grocery store so I could give it a go for the first time and with a Google search I learned that it's safe for Conures!

Presto here gave it a nibble and he seemed to actually enjoy it quite a bit! We're gonna try Kiwi next and see how that goes : ]