Dove nutrition!

[Quailchild]

1 Can anyone recommend brands of seed/mix that is best for Doves? particularly diamonds. I've had a few recommended, but was curious of your collective inpit

2 Besides the seed filler, what natural foods have you found your doves to like? 9Fruits and veggies, etc)

3: Any nutritional drops/Suppliments I should be aware of?


Thanks everyone. been researching/looking into getting a few Diamond doves for a while now

 

[Hokum Coco]

I feed my pigeons Layer pellets.
When they need extra protein I feed meat builder pellets.
In your case you might try the crumbles instead where they are a bit smaller bird.
It works for me and the birds seem healthy and happy.

 

[midge0413]

We have doves and quail together and feed chicken scratch and game bird starter... Worked well for 3 years

 

[jak2002003]

1 Can anyone recommend brands of seed/mix that is best for Doves? particularly diamonds. I've had a few recommended, but was curious of your collective inpit

2 Besides the seed filler, what natural foods have you found your doves to like? 9Fruits and veggies, etc)

3: Any nutritional drops/Suppliments I should be aware of?


Thanks everyone. been researching/looking into getting a few Diamond doves for a while now

DO NOT FEED CHICKEN SCRATCH TO DIAMOND DOVES!!!!!

The size of the grains is too large. The doves will not be able to eat it and will starve.

Diamond doves will enjoy a finch seed mix, or a budgie seed mix.

You also should feed a fine size bird grit, and crushed up cuttle fish bone / egg shells (for calcium)

If you birds are housed indoors - add vitamin to the drinking water 2 or 3 times a week.

If they are in an outdoor aviary with natural sunlight and a dirt floor you don't need to add the vitamins so often as they get vitamin D from sunlight.

That is all they need.

You can try chopped up dark green leafy vegetables, but mine never eat it - even though they get a veg mix every day as the zebra finches love it.

I found one pair of mine liked to eat chicken chick starter crumble when they were raising their own chicks as well as the normal food. But other pairs never eat it.

 

[mamabigbird]

I have a ring neck dove. We had a cockatiel so the dove got cockatiel food and still does. He doesn't eat all of it but picks through for his favorite bits. He loves millet sticks, popcorn chopped up into small bits, thawed out frozen corn. grated carrots(one of his favorites), and sunflower seeds if I peel them for him first. He is an indoor bird but I've never given him vitamins. Maybe I should start.
He is nine years old and appears pretty healthy.