How to tell if you Pigeon is a male or female?

[ImaChickenGirl]

About a year ago I caught a pigeon that was hanging around I and started caring for him. Now that he has been here for a while I want to know if it is a male or female but the problem is I don't know how to tell if it is a male or female. Does anyone know how???

 

[ImaChickenGirl]

Here are two pictures

 

[Pigeon Power]

Their are hundreds literally hundreds of breeds of pigeon, I am not sure what breed of pigeon this is, looks like a mix to me however I could be wrong. That being said you can not tell by just looking at one what the sex is in less you have an idea of the breed because what looks like a female in one breed may be male ect....because they are all so different...Your best bet is to find someone how raises birds get a male off them and if they fight its a male if she seems interested in his display its female....however I have had a very small amount of homosexual pigeons...
However if you only have the two and they do pair up.
If they are both female you will have four eggs in a nest and the eggs will never hatch
If they are both male they will just sit on an empty nest
Also Pigeons only lay eggs if they have a mate...(although some people have manged to trick really lonely females into laying with a mirror)
I have had this happen before
If you have a male and a female they will just have 2 eggs at a time...the female will sit on the eggs at night, early morning and evening, the male during the day if he is not a bump.

 

[Pigeon Power]

The pigeon in my picture is a male Chinese owl...even though I've been doing this for 20 years when he was young I was pretty sure he was female because of some of his features for his breed...However I found out I was wrong when he hit sexual maturity...So your really just not going to know for sure till or if you get another pigeon

 

[ClarAlebrook]

Wow.. just not used to this.. I do like the female.. she rules the roost.. she slaps the male into submission.. she's smart too

 

[appps]

Do pigeons love to play with toys and if yes what kind of toys they play with

Mine love cable ties I forgot to pack up. Cart them around then nest with them . Things they like most are a bath and bits if stick or straw they can carry around.

 

[jak2002003]

My pigeons do not play with toys that I bought for them

They don't play with toys like parakeets and parrots. Pigeons consider that they are too clever for childish toys and want to concentrate on raising their pigeon babies and flying sports activities. Very sensible birds are pigeons.

 

[Hokum Coco]

hi i have a cock pigeon who mated and the hen pigeon laid and hatched eggs into squabs but the problem is the cock pigeon is now i think is mating with another pigeon

I would keep a close eye on the new squabs sometime the male may scalp and kill the squabs drive off the first mate and take up with the Jezebel. I had this happen in my loft I managed to save the squab and female became a single parent.

 

[laughingdog]

Make sure each hen has two nests, even if just one to two foot square back of cage or coop shelf seperated with taped up cardboard.

 

[aarontheman]

Its hard to tell if its a female or male but if it coo's it might be a male but still it could be a female and also if it bowing it might be a male but still could be a female