How to incubate a pigeons eggs?

[backyard pigeons]

so if i know how to hatch at an incubator and then give them to their parents and see how they grow and stuff that will be awesome.

That does sound nice. hopefully it works well, I am just saying that a lot more happens to the eggs than just being kept warm.

I am 100% that everything i do they will not be able to hatch on their own

for every problem there is a solution.

What if you tried this next clutch: provide a bigger nest bowl or NO nest bowl at all, but provide bedding like straw to allow them to form their own nest. And also make sure there are no other pigeons trying to take over the nest causing fights by the nest. Also give them some extra calcium supplements. Make sure there nest is a shallow depression, so they don't have to step down to the eggs but rather walk right up to them. If you do these I bet you'll be surprised at how well they can raise babies.

The fact that they don't smother their babies tells me their is the potential for this pair IF provided the CORRECT conditions. Does this make sense?

Here's what their nest should look like:

Notice how all of these nest don't have a deep compression so the pigeons simply walk up to the eggs instead of jump down to them. I lost a really good show bird egg this year because I was lazy and didn't add more bedding to their bowl, so they had to step down to them. That is an egg killer.

 

[Mihai]

The fact that they don't smother their babies tells me their is the potential for this pair IF provided the CORRECT conditions. Does this make sense?

I understand.
I will try to make something like that that fits their breeding cage.

 

[Gungellan Farm]

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This is the grit i give them and on the side on the food pink mineral powder


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Nest


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Bedding

They do this every time
I paired them 2-3 years ago and they hatched only 2 squabs in 2 different years, they had every year 5-7 rounds of eg

 

[Gungellan Farm]

This is a thread I am starting to show my personal experience with incubating pigeon eggs.


Two of the three pigeon eggs that were fertile will be placed in a Brinsea incubator and one egg will be left with a pair of parent pigeons to compare.


The second hen will receive a dummy egg until an egg... https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/modena-pigeons-from-egg-to-adulthood.1451829/

 

[Gungellan Farm]

That does sound nice. hopefully it works well, I am just saying that a lot more happens to the eggs than just being kept warm.

for every problem there is a solution.

What if you tried this next clutch: provide a bigger nest bowl or NO nest bowl at all, but provide bedding like straw to allow them to form their own nest. And also make sure there are no other pigeons trying to take over the nest causing fights by the nest. Also give them some extra calcium supplements. Make sure there nest is a shallow depression, so they don't have to step down to the eggs but rather walk right up to them. If you do these I bet you'll be surprised at how well they can raise babies.

The fact that they don't smother their babies tells me their is the potential for this pair IF provided the CORRECT conditions. Does this make sense?

Here's what their nest should look like:View attachment 2564661View attachment 2564662View attachment 2564663View attachment 2564664View attachment 2564665

Notice how all of these nest don't have a deep compression so the pigeons simply walk up to the eggs instead of jump down to them. I lost a really good show bird egg this year because I was lazy and didn't add more bedding to their bowl, so they had to step down to them. That is an egg killer.

I use dollar tree feed bowls too! Mine wouldn’t use that kind though! I was like really now I have to throw them away. Lol. I had to go for their other food bowls. The ones that are solid bright plastic.

 

[Aaron nassery]

Hey sorry I’m late, did you figure it out? I incubate pigeon eggs all the time. I actually have 4 right now that Im incubating and 4 babies I’m hand raising. I hope you got it going. Keep the temp at 100-100.4. Humidity for the first 15 days should be kept at 45-60 and the last 3 days keep it at 65-75 if you can. People say you can’t raise baby pigeons from day 1 because they need crop milk from parents but it’s not true. I literally have raised about 28 and have only lost 6 and that was only because I wasn’t feeding them properly when I first started several years ago. I only raise abandoned eggs. I don’t purposefully take eggs though. If the parents will raise them then I’ll let them do their thing but if they won’t incubate, then I gladly will

 

[Mihai]

The pair didn't mate or laid recently but I still have good news.

This 2 cute things hatched recently and are very cute. Also one of my fantail pairs are going to lay soon and have another fantail pair that I paired 2 weeks ago from the squabs from last year.