I have three new babies! Now to figure out who's who's. Two females: Edel (white) & Truffles (blond) live in the cage with Latte (ivory/blond) - I have seen Latte mate with Edel, but never with Truffles...and I can usually tell the difference between Edel & Truffles eggs. Well this time Im not so sure. I took what I thought to be Edel's eggs out and gave them to foster sitters, one egg got broken. Then Edel laid 2 more eggs. All three hatched within hours of each other. The fostered egg was the last to hatch (he is the fuzzy yellow one next to Edel in the photo), I found him this morning . He looks very typical of all of Edel's past hatchlings; dark eyes, bill stripe, fuzzy yellow down (typical blond color). The other two look quite different than any of the other hatchlings I have seen. They have very spars yellow fuz, and look very pink - light eyes, no bill stripe...could they be white? or do white doves only have white fuzzy down?
time will tell...but I am very excited to see what the newcomers turn into.
I tried to mate Edel with an Orange Pearled, but she did not fancy him one bit...if the newbies turn out Orange Ill know it was all an act!
All three are in with Edel, Truffles and Latte - the foster egg sitters are young birds, after the egg hatched they did not sit on the hatchling.