"Pigeon Place", the soap opera

[coyotejoe]

It is a soap opera indeed! First off, one of the largest homer hens hooked up with one of the scrawniest roller cocks but after a brief courtship they broke up. She is now a single mom sitting two eggs! She is very diligent about it, I've never seen her off the nest. I guess she must leave to eat and drink since she is still alive but I've never seen her do it and I do check in about half a dozen times a day. Meanwhile, I have another mixed marriage between a homer and a roller which is doing quite well. They take turns sitting the single egg with the roller cock on the nest most of the time.
Then there is the feral pair. They arrived quite young. One was obviously a male as he was strutting and vocalizing constantly. I put him in with the Kings because he was bullying the little rollers and driving them away from the feeder. But another feral was very anxious to get to him so I assumed that was a hen and when I put her also in with him and the kings they immediatly began to nest. So when I found abandoned eggs I put them in the feral's nest and they sit them very diligently. But yesterday I saw the presumed hen also strutting and vocalizing. Gay foster parents!
I also have a King sitting a single egg but I can't tell if it's hen or cock nor even if it's the same bird always. I can recognize individuals when they are walking about but on the nest they all look alike. I think it could be another single mom but can't really tell, but again I have never seen the egg exposed, someone is always on the nest.
What next? Will one be wanting a sex change operation? Deadbeat dad leaves wife and kiddies. Single mom struggles to raise children alone. Gay couple adopts children of king. You can see it all right here on "PIGEON PLACE". Stay tuned for a brief commercial announcement.