Nesting ringnecks

[Terri O]

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Checked out your blog...nice. I will be following! And to the OP--too bad about both being females! But maybe you can find a boy now? Terri O--who misses her mourning dove...

 

[Blisschick]

I think I'm going to pass with getting a male just yet. I'd like to have some kind outside aviary. Right now, they're in a cage on my kitchen table, and I really don't have anymore room for many more. I put two Serama eggs under them, the smallest I could find, and they're happily incubating them in rotating shifts.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

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Yes, you'll need to get it in the brooder as soon as you can. They'll expect the baby to ask for food, but of course chickens won't. They go on like nothing happened when you take the chick away. Probably glad there was no work involved, LOL!

 

[Terri O]

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Yes, you'll need to get it in the brooder as soon as you can. They'll expect the baby to ask for food, but of course chickens won't. They go on like nothing happened when you take the chick away. Probably glad there was no work involved, LOL!

You would think that they would "miss" the babies...weird! T

 

[elmo]

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Yes, you'll need to get it in the brooder as soon as you can. They'll expect the baby to ask for food, but of course chickens won't. They go on like nothing happened when you take the chick away. Probably glad there was no work involved, LOL!

Not only that, but the incubation period for ringneck doves (14 days) is shorter than that for chickens (usually 21 or a perhaps a little shorter for bantams). Your dove pair might abandon the Serama eggs in their last week of incubation, so be sure to have your artificial incubator ready to go if this happens (and if you want to save the chicks).

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Good point, I forgot about that. I'm used to putting chicken eggs under pigeons and quail eggs under doves.

 

[Blisschick]

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Thanks for the heads up. Funny you should mention quail -- one of my husband's clients asked him the other day if I would be interested in some Japanese coturnix eggs. I told him I was iffy, but I'd try anything once, and he tells me I need less birds.

Why even tell me if you know I'm going to want to do it?????????

Men.