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My dove is a miracle!

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I just love my doves!  Miracle is my favourite one.  She survived having her cage knocked down and breaking open one night.  I found her the next morning badly wounded on the ground, but she flew off into the distance when I tried to pick her up.  4 days later I was watering the garden, when out of no where she flew down and landed on my head!!!!

 

She is completely recovered now we have a very strong bond between us.  

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Coffee and Cream......my 'same sex' couple......

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My Doves enjoying some free flying in my living room.  The are trained to only rest on their cages or on a towel on the back of the sofa.  They love to do circuits of the room, and also peck about on the floor.

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And finally my 2 Diamond Doves.  The hen is unusual as she has a crest!  They are quite new, so have to work on getting be be friends with them.

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Wow... Doves are really pretty.  Do they lay eggs in nest boxes like chickens?

We live on a beautiful homestead in Kansas.  We have lots of bantams and standards (many breeds including: EEs, BOs, Speckled Sussexes, Delawares, Silkies, d'Uccles, Cochins, A few home hatched mixes, OEG bantams, and a couple undetermined).  We also have five goats (mixed origin), one dexter heifer, two pigs, and nine ducks.  Life couldn't be much better.

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We live on a beautiful homestead in Kansas.  We have lots of bantams and standards (many breeds including: EEs, BOs, Speckled Sussexes, Delawares, Silkies, d'Uccles, Cochins, A few home hatched mixes, OEG bantams, and a couple undetermined).  We also have five goats (mixed origin), one dexter heifer, two pigs, and nine ducks.  Life couldn't be much better.

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They don't like boxes like chickens.  They like open baskets or open containers to make their nests.  I use small wicker baskets (as they look nice). They then make a messy nest in them with twigs, feathers and stalks.

 

I have kept many pets over the years, but the Doves and Chickens are totally the BEST!

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