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5/6/12 at 12:22pm

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Does anyone know what wild mourning doves like to eat? I live in nevada and the moaning doves are always in my backyard and I want to feed them they always seem so hungry.

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5/9/12 at 4:40pm

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Any wild bird seed should do-

My feed store makes a blend for doves also they have packaged dove pellets now.

Be sure to set up feeding them away from your domestic poultry due to disease.

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5/9/12 at 7:46pm

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Corn kernels make them go crazy. If you put a pile of corn down, they'll never stop coming back day after day. Dried corn that is

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