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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 10 6:51 pm Post subject:

toggle wrote:

is there any such thing as a healthy feral pigeon?

What is it that makes them intrinsically unhealthy?
Apart from the diet of discarded McDonalds.

Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 7202

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 10 7:03 pm Post subject:
They happily eat vomit. It's a valuable city service of course, but puts me off eating them. many's the time I'd wander past a scrum of pigeons on sunday morning in manchester city centre wondering what they'd found...and then nearly lose my breakfast aswell hand rearing orphaned ones randomly found in shop doorways certainly brightened up days behind my desk though They make excellent pets.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 10 7:10 pm Post subject:

Nat S wrote:

They happily eat vomit. It's a valuable city service of course, but puts me off eating them.

Certainly that is off-putting, but at the end of the day, vomit is exactly the same stuff as what you live off; the only difference is your stomach contents stay in contained in your stomach.
If the vomit was caused by illness, then maybe a problem, but probably 99% of urban vomit is alcohol induced.

Mrs R

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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 10 7:12 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Nat S wrote:

They happily eat vomit. It's a valuable city service of course, but puts me off eating them.

Lovely! You first.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 10 7:34 pm Post subject:

Nat S wrote:

Lovely! You first.

For some reason, when they see me coming, the birdies all try an' hide.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46217
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 10 7:38 pm Post subject:
the robin was less that a meter away this am ,not tame yet

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 10 10:29 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Then again, if you can successfully establish the principal of grabbing them off the street, why not grab a healthy one?

Generally, if its healthy its a lot harder to grab. Doesn't mean it can't be done, but its not as easy.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 10 10:18 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Nat S wrote:

Lovely! You first.

For some reason, when they see me coming, the birdies all try an' hide.

But they still go for peanuts when they're laced with cyanide...

yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 10 10:47 am Post subject:
when I read the thread title I thought spring had come early

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 10 11:02 am Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

But they still go for peanuts when they're laced with cyanide...

Well done. Prize goes to Mochyn.

lettucewoman

Joined: 26 Sep 2006
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Location: Tiptoe in the Forest!!

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 10 12:38 pm Post subject:
I thought feral pigeons were vermin?

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
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Location: South West

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 10 12:41 pm Post subject:

lettucewoman wrote:

I thought feral pigeons were vermin?

So are wood pigeons. And rabbits. You can still eat them though.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 10 1:09 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

mochyn wrote:

But they still go for peanuts when they're laced with cyanide...

Well done. Prize goes to Mochyn.

OK so what's my prize then? A musical periodic table?

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 10 1:25 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

OK so what's my prize then? A musical periodic table?

If that is what you desire.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 10 2:34 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

mochyn wrote:

OK so what's my prize then? A musical periodic table?

If that is what you desire.

I'm forwarding that to the old chap: every scientist should have one! (Not an old chap...)

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