Aggressive ring neck doves

[Bdon87]

hello I have a mated pair of ring neck doves that had a baby after the baby was flying the pair got aggressive toward it I saw they had another baby in there nest so I pulled the baby out I also rescued another dove as well I built a second nest and put the rescue dove in the cage the mated pair took over that nest and started attacking the rescue dove any one no what to do with this

 

[jak2002003]

The breeding pair need to have their own cage.

This is normal behaviour. They are territorial and are best housed in pairs, unless the aviary is huge size.

 

[Bdon87]

The breeding pair need to have their own cage.

This is normal behaviour. They are territorial and are best housed in pairs, unless the aviary is huge size.

The aviary is 10’x10’ is that to small

 

[jak2002003]

The aviary is 10’x10’ is that to small

That size is very good. It should not be too small. But, it seems, in your doves case it is lol.

Just keep that pair in a small cage until they have raised their young, then release them all in to the big aviary.

Nice to hear from people keeping the doves in a big space for a change.

How many do you have now?

These doves usually prefer to live in pairs only. Maybe divide the aviary into section for each pair is better, otherwise they are going to keep fighting.. and sometimes they can pull feathers out of each other and make them look really ugly, or injure each other eyes through pecking.

 

[Bdon87]

That size is very good. It should not be too small. But, it seems, in your doves case it is lol.

Just keep that pair in a small cage until they have raised their young, then release them all in to the big aviary.

Nice to hear from people keeping the doves in a big space for a change.

How many do you have now?

These doves usually prefer to live in pairs only. Maybe divide the aviary into section for each pair is better, otherwise they are going to keep fighting.. and sometimes they can pull feathers out of each other and make them look really ugly, or injure each other eyes through pecking.

I have 5 witch
Do you think having the nest in the aviary is the case of the problem

 

[LamarshFish]

Not sure about doves, but mated pigeons will begin laying and raising new babies pretty fast after prior offspring can fly / have fledged, yet in most loft situations, the older offspring may still attempt to fly to the nest box, and its parents will sometimes allow it to be there, and sometimes will aggressive chase it off. I have seen parents attack their own offspring when sitting on new eggs or squabs on one hand, and on the other hand I have seen young pigeons that just fledged the nest go back in and share a nest bowl with its mom sitting on an egg.

One thing I know about doves compared to pigeons, is that they are not gregarious like pigeons, they like their mate and I don't think tolerate much else.

 

[BaJa]

This is very normal with doves. It shouldn't get real bad. At the most a couple feathers plucked out. It hurts to see it, but that's always how it goes when you add a new dove. When one of my hens died, I got a new hen for the male, and he started chasing her like you wont believe, plucking feathers out and all that. Now they're best friends and are incubating an egg in the 7th nest they made since falling in love with each other. And when they're aggressive to their baby after it fledged, that's natural because they want them to get out of there and fend for themselves. Hope this helps.