at last some advice

Finally I found someone who knows about pidgeons who has told me what we should be doing. This is walter today ( without me!)
WE have been doing most of it wrong I think. He should gape when being fed and he hasnt been. basically we have been force feeding the poor little chap! Also he should be eating peas. I did try this and also dipped his beak into a bowl of water but maybe he is just a bit too young to do this yet. My father wants me to just release him but he cannot even feed himself so has no chance at all of survival right now so I went on the web and found a pidgeon website and contacted them and this lovely lady rang me and told me what to do. She seemed to think it is likely to be at least 2 weeks till he can fend for himself and he should get some practice in the hen aviary first. No problem at all but I had best be around to check what my hens do to him when he lands. Also there is a chance his parents may still take care of him for the week after he is released. Brilliant. I am sure he will soon be good enough to fly. Tho right now he does even sit on a perch. My wonderful pidgeon adviser also thinks he may be injured which is worrying. He can fly slightly but not very well but I have sent a photo so hopefully she will be able to guess his approximate age. Must admit though all this reading about pidgeons has made me really interested in getting some racers! Mind you first things first I have a baby woody to sort out. As for work I have done none the last 3 days and actually had to work till 2am this morning to get an order in to one of my suppliers since it has to be in for 9am today! Still one of the really good things about self employment is you can choose to work silly hours when you need to and it all still gets done just not necessarily when "normal" work does. Well if I wanted to do normal work would I even think of being self employed?