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Throughout my time in the hobby I’ve never had an infertile egg before. Therefore, I’ve never had to candle an egg and have no experience candling eggs. The eggs below are 15 and 17 days old. To me they both look infertile but I’d like to get more opinions before I pull them against my better...

The eggs that one of my pigeons lay never seem to hatch. I've had to throw away 4 eggs now. I don't know why they aren't hatching. I've changed the nest box after the first batch didn't hatch. The male is 1.5 years old and the female 3 years old. Both homer pigeons. I have a total of 4 pigeons...

My pigeons are both rescues - and they happened to be a pair. That time came, and they have an egg, which we just swapped for a plastic one, as we live in a flat, so we can't keep more than two. The problem is - the plastic egg is bigger (I bought them as pigeon eggs, they didn't come in sizes)...

Hello, my name is Jacky. A friend of mine owns a large pigeon farm* in a really remote area. Recently he asked me about getting some new eggs, due to lack of competition(there was no other nest around) and personal interests. I live in Los Angeles, and if anyone is interested on selling their...

Hi All I put a pair of pigeons in a small breeding cage while I was building a bigger loft to put them in. But the loft took a little longer to build than I thought. The birds have now laid there eggs. Would it be safe to move the small breeding cage to the new loft or should I wait till the...

Hi Looking for some advice please. I have a very small balcony with decking and despite trying to block off beneath the decking so that pigeons can't nest under there (I previously had to wait for a baby to fledge to do this as I hadn't realised pigeons found it so cosy under there!) the couple...

I'm new here so if this is posted in the wrong board I'm sorry.Last week I discovered a pigeon had laid 2 eggs on my mother and stepfather's terrace. Their nest is pathetic with maybe a few twigs other than that the mother and father take turns sitting on the eggs on the outdoor carpet ( which...

Hi, my pet pigeon normally lays 2 eggs every 5 -6 weeks....usually 2 days apart...this time she layed 1 egg and it has been 3 as of today that the other has not dropped. She is in her nest with her butt up in the air, wiggling around alot and not looking comfortable at all. I did try applying...

Hi guys, Can anyone please help me located someone with extra pigeon eggs in Western MA, CT, or NY? I am in CT. Would be willing to pay shipping if I cannot find anyone locally.

Does someone know why the cock only sit on one egg and kick the other aside? What I can do to help them? Here is the story and I am not sure if I did the right thing that is good for this young family. I know nothing about pigeons until the cute parents adopted our balcony and laid two eggs 7...

I recently found two abandoned pigeon eggs and decided to take care of them.I used a light bulb to make it warm.But one of them died when hatching and the other one luckily hatched.I tried to search the web about feeding baby pigeons but all of the videos doesn't contain how to take care of the...

Last month, after a long vacation I returned home to find a pigeon egg and a chick in my bedroom window. I could not bring myself to get rid of the chick and therefore I let the mother attend to it while I kept the bedroom door shut and hardly went in for about a month before the chick became...

I just bought 6 new pigeons from a pigeon breeder and one of the female just had an egg yesterday. I did not buy its mate and I dont know if it will care about the egg. It has not yet had its 2nd egg yet so i am really not sure. I have a male but it pecks her so I didnt put them together. Can...

Well - we adopted this pigeon in March, and were not aware of the birds' gender. There were suggestions made for DNA testing or to wait to see if the bird would lay an egg. Well today my wife was outside in our front porch, and she found that Pierre (may have to rename the bird now) is a mom -...

I'm so sad about the timing on this because I would otherwise be so excited! I went onto my balcony today with my dog, and a pigeon flew away. We have a lot of stuff on the balcony as storage right now. Anyway, my dog started sniffing around by the corner. I thought maybe she was just smelling...

i have a pigeon egg and it has started to develop i see 2 red "veins" in the form of a circle i think that might be the air pocket. but there are no other red veins in the egg at all is the egg still alive ? do pigeon eggs turn grey if theyre dead even if they started to develop?

Hi! I am new to pigeons and I have a lot of questions. I want to make sure my pigeons are properly cared for. But before asking all of my questions about there care I have a little bit of a problem. I have a pair they laid there eggs, they broke their first egg but have been sitting on their...

can you tell me y the my cock pigeons 2 of them break there eggs , ??? 1 egg is breaken so i have swopped them for plastic egg,s for now , and the cock is still peck,s them ????

About 3 months back I found a pigeon. She was hopping on the ground. I have rescued alot of pigeons and set back to the wild so I ran up to her and sure enough she didn't fly away. I was looking and realized she had a severe wing injury. She stunk of infection.... I took her home and cleaned her...

Is there any way to freeze pigeons egg for long time like one month ?