Diamond Doves

[95yj]

normal pricing = waaaaay less than $40 or $50 unless your buying the really nice or rare colors.

 

[poultryhaven]

Yeah at the bird shop in my town, They have really nice birds and they are not really a pet shop. They used to sell theirs for $10 i think they are like 12 or 15 now. I have a question, can they be housed with cockatiels and a little parakeet? I have 4 cockatiels and 1 parakeet in a decent sized cage and i wanna get a different kind of bird. Also could i put my button quail in the bottom of their cage?

 

[Baby Newbird]

No, you cannot house the diamond dove or button quail with a cockatiel, parakeet, or any other hookbill. I don't know about housing the button quail and diamond dove together. Some people have success housing diamond doves with finches but its risky.

 

[Tony K T]

My diamond doves and cockatiels get along great.They are in an outside cage that is 6'x12'x6',plenty of room.They were not housed together in the same pen,but they do go back and forth between 2 pens with no problems.There are pheasants in each pen also and everyone gets along fine.I wouldn't want to crowd them,give them lots of space.
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[Nessy]

I also disagree with Baby Newbird. I have 2 mountain quail 2 gambles quail and a bobwhite in a community aviary with my diamonds. They are in a 8x8x7 outdoor aviary. I started out with four birds (pairs sell for $20 around here) I now have seven due to a very productive pair who have had two nests in less than 2 months. They were starting a new one but the storm we had the last two weeks blew the rain into the aviary and soaked the nests. The baby doves will actually nestle up against the quail if they get the chance because the quail like to try to roost on the same poles the doves do.

The only bird that did not work in this aviary were a few parakeets I rescued. Whenever the quail would panic (like when a hawk decides to sit on the corner of the aviary and tries to get in.) the quail would accidentally run into the parakeets and get them agitated and I caught the male parakeets trying to bite the baby doves. I got rid of them before we had a real incident besides loosing a few feathers and so far the pairing of the quail and doves has worked nicely.

There is nothing funnier then seeing my quail walk around with doves on their back, which is a recent thing they have been allowing the doves to do. The doves will fly up when they get scared and will just land wherever they end up which lately has been on a quail. Both birds will also sit in the same feeder bowl and eat at the same time without any problems.

If you provide each bird with enough room to have its own space you shouldn't have problems. Community aviaries are a common thing here, I knew a guy that had 4 types of pheasant 5 types of quail, chukars, doves, guineas, finches, and wood and mandarin ducks all in one huge aviary. He probably had about a hundred birds. I think the aviary was roughly 30x 60 or less, but all the birds got along. I would have thought there would have been a lot of feather plucking and fighting, but all the birds seemed to do fine. (edited to say I got my doves from this guy but he also had normal sized doves as well)

My website has pictures of my birds, and I think both types of birds in a few of them

 

[Baby Newbird]

Nessy, I did not say that diamond doves cannot be kept with any other birds. I did not say they cannot be kept with other doves or quail.
I said they cannot be housed with cockatiels or other hookbills.
Obviously, according to Tony's post, there are exceptions. But I still say its very risky.

 

[Nessy]

My mistake, sorry

But I still think they can be housed safety with cockatiels. Its all about the environment that they are provided.

 

[serama hen]

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