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 days ago.
I tried to keep them in the wild without too much human interferences. So, no food no drinks. Well, there is a river next to my building that I believe they are able to manage it easily. All I did just rearranged the flower pots and put bunches of pine needles next to their eggs and let them build their nest by themselves. Sometimes I help them kick away ravens and give them signals to come back. It works
But today the male is not sitting on both eggs as usual I heard that the eggs didn't get sit for 2 hours and the chances of dying is really high. I don't what to do now.
btw, the outside temp is 32~37C now and will drop to 26 at night.
updated: I used two twigs like a pair of chopsticks to put the egg back into the nest. sighing* I think the clumsy daddy couldn't take the egg back while making the nest edge to high.
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 days ago.
I tried to keep them in the wild without too much human interferences. So, no food no drinks. Well, there is a river next to my building that I believe they are able to manage it easily. All I did just rearranged the flower pots and put bunches of pine needles next to their eggs and let them build their nest by themselves. Sometimes I help them kick away ravens and give them signals to come back. It works But today the male is not sitting on both eggs as usual
I heard that the eggs didn't get sit for 2 hours and the chances of dying is really high. I don't what to do now. btw, the outside temp is 32~37C now and will drop to 26 at night.
updated: I used two twigs like a pair of chopsticks to put the egg back into the nest. sighing* I think the clumsy daddy couldn't take the egg back while making the nest edge to high.
