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I added a bit to my other post about the fledgling baby, but I just wanted to say how ecstatic I am to find out the my baldheads are a male and a FEMALE!! :
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Of course, they are not mated with each other, but at least I didn't get stuck with 2 boys!
 
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i love the pic of the birms, and fantail mix male. i just seperated mine with the whatever stunt pigeon is, and s/he immediately went in and tore out all the bedding in the nest i had in there, and was squated down most of the day, seeming pleased as punch. is that the sign of a hen? the other was interested but just sat on perch, after checking out and showing the other the nest.
 
It is probably the cock but it might be the hen the cock might flap his wings in the nest a liitle and make a deep coo.
I got rid of a few more birds at a swap and their was no one there.
 
wish we had a better swap and friendly or open group of pigeon keepers around here. heck wish we had more than once a month on the first monday, swaps and such. the fantail mix sits on the nest during the day, but non sit during the night, though the other will lay by, or perch above the fantail mix, sometimes seeming to display (but not sure, as they both coo when crowded by another, but then again the other is the only one who jumps on the other's backs and bobs its head up and down). well if they hatch eggs, then they could be a pair, or both girls that were mated before i separated them, or dont they mate without access to nests (though the three think girls do try to nest in food troughs)? how long would it take to get eggs after the one nestles down, after the other tears it up and dances around it like snoopy?
 
Your lucky theirs barley any swaps around here.
The one that hops on others is probably a cock
If it was a pair of hens i think their would 4 eggs
 
no eggs yet, but think all my pidgies are to young now, except one with white thickening cere, as others are just sterting to dust and theyre begining to get aggressive, now that ive moved the one pair, the two rollers attack the two homers whenever they get near the bottom of the cage to eat or what not, but only used to be the one roller know to be mature and male chasing the homer thought to be male (the two seeming to watch the older one, trying to herd the three thinking females to the back corners of cage and food bins. id let them pair off and nest etc, but know id want to let them keep the eggs and raise the young, and then id maybe never want to part with them, so trying to wait till i can find homes for my two dove pairs (though ill miss the cooing etc). well i already seperated the two had the longest, but they took everything out of the nest, and the one think girl sits on most of day, but found one that coos etc most, on one early morn, but he moves, and the one think girl, just looks upset with me for disturbing it, though no eggs, but then again the cere havent gotten thick white yet either. the dove pairs though, have hatched and raised pigeon and other birds, as well as their own, so know fertile, even though so young (couldnt even fly yet or fully grown when got as just fledging.
 
i let my male whatever he realy is out, for a bit, as no one has been out back that i can tell all morn, and he keeps doing flips, though mostly sideways.. any ideas wht thats all about? thought rollers or any, only flipped backwards, and very few types rolled forwards also, but its just maybe for fun that he does with nothing to do with liniagge? thought one type of parents do the barrel rolls he does, but never seen him do so many tight flips and rolls! he actually just came flipping in the door to find were i went to for so long (all the rest are outside in cages). im anxious to see if these two are pair now if one has hidden strong flipping genes, that might come out, as of old group that i flew, they were ones who only flipped, as after first got non others seem to flip of new or old besides them (though new still caged and only breifly let out to fly a couple times inside).
 

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