help my male pigeons are atacking my female wut do i do

[lukekerttu]

ok wut is going on is my male pigeon that breeded with my olny female i put him in his own cage and kept the two pigeons male and female in there own cage and i noticed that her neck wuz looking really chewed up so i put her with her mate and he chased her around and grabbed her neck with his beak and wuz pulling feathers out why did he do that please help i have all three pigeons in there own cage wut do ido

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luke

[raynjudy]

As a rule, pigeons mate for life. If you're trying to mate one female with a group of males, you're bound to have trouble--had she been with other males? If that's it--don't blame him. He knows how things are supposed to be!

Why were they separated in the first place, Luke?

You may try putting them side by side with a partition between them for a number of days.
Leave them alone as much as possible to "work things out".

Pigeons may breed year round, but we're coming up on the Big Season!

You need input from someone with hands-on loft experience. Carl? Walt?

--Ray

[This message has been edited by raynjudy (edited 02-28-2001).]

[lukekerttu]

well i wanted to change mates to see if they would be a better pair but i guess not i will try the divider thanx

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luke