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My ringneck dovesHi everyone! I haven't brought home my new pigeon yet, so in the mean time I thought I would share some pictures of my doves.
Here are Cookie (female) and Cracker (male) sitting on their new baby  Here's Cookie feeding her baby who is one day old  Cracker looking as handsome as ever  Here's the little baby at around 4 weeks old, she's just had a bath in that picture, that's why her feathers look kinda messy  |
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Oh....they are so sweet, all of them. That 1 day old baby looks so "naked" compared to a baby pigeon. You know.........it's a good thing I have a husband to keep me in line or else my house would be full of birds!!! I love them all....
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Heheh, I need a husband to keep me in line
 It's so amazing to me how these babies come out so naked and tiny, and within a matter of weeks they grow to be almost the same size as their parents, and fully feathered. That baby is over a month old now, she's stll covered with pins, but flies so gracefully  |
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Hi Poofybird,
Your doves are beautiful!!!  I love the pictures and you camera takes EXCELLENT pictures too. You must be very proud of your doves, and good luck with the pigeon when you get it. |
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Oh! How sweet!!! I think the pic of the 4-week-old is my favorite. ~Alice
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you can see how they are protective and love their babies
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 The dad even started to pull out her feathers to try to get her to leave. So they have seperate cages now. Do pigeons kick the chick out of the nest once it had weaned also? |
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They are adorable!
Pigeons generally chase off a youngster sometime between the next laying and the resulting babies. The hen is often the more aggressive towards them, but it varies. My pair I had a few years ago on a balcony were quite different personalities. The hen would chase previous young off, even grabbing them by a wing and pulling them away to the edge of the balcony. The male didn't seem too troubled, but his mate would peck at him until he got up from lounging around and made a show of evicting his earlier pair of kids John
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That's pretty funny
My doves did get more presistent and aggressive in trying to get the baby out once the new eggs were layed. Mom and baby still walk and forage together when they're out of the cage, and they're fine, but Dad will still try to peck her even when they're far from the cage and nest. I find their behaviours so fascinating! |
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