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HaLLoWeEn Oct 21, 2009

What are you going to be for Halloween this year?

R.I.P. Honey Sep 23, 2009

Last night Honey - one of my white Homing Pigeons - was not looking good. She was overdue to lay an egg, and I felt some swelling in the oviduct area, so I assumed she was eggbound. I tried the usual treatments for that - warm bath, heating pad, cod liver oil, calcium...All night I tried to help her pass that egg but by morning she looked worse.

I took her to the vet, which is not something I usually do anymore since I've got a well stocked medicine chest and volumes of information about pigeon health. I've gotten pretty good at saving sick or injured pigeons over the past few years.

Anyway, Long story short, the vet took some blood samples, gave her some shots, sent us home with some antibiotics. He said he thought there was no stuck egg, but some kind of infection creating the swelling. But this evening when I got home and went to give her the meds, she had already passed away.

Honey was a beautiful bird, given to me by my friend Patti who raises white Homers, Fairy Swallows, and White Rollers. Honey was mostly white, with a few black markings, and pretty orange eyes - very rare for a white bird. (white pigeons usually have black eyes) Her mate Baby doted on her, and he'll be upset when he realizes she's not coming back...

pigeon faster than broadband Sep 10, 2009

From BBC News...

"A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data."

For full article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm