Foster Parents

[WhiteWingsCa]

This came up in another thread - and I thought this deserved it's own thread - as personally, we use fostering quite a bit in our loft....

Fostering eggs/chicks can be used for a couple of reasons. Our main reason for fostering is that we raise two separate 'teams' of pigeons - our 'release' birds (all white), and our racers (mix of whites/coloured). We'll raise a round of all whites - then a round of all racers - using foster parents for both rounds.....

We also have foster parents - birds that we wish to keep for one reason or another, but that are inferior breeders (don't produce good babies).

Also, in emergencies, pairs can be 'fosters' to babies that lose a parent.

I'll break this up into a few different posts - as it's going to be lengthy... LOL