pairing diamond doves

[joegwendolyn]

hello i am after some advice I got what i was told to be a pair of diamond doves a few months ago they turned out to be 2 cock birds, they have paired up together even though they are both males trying to breed and nest etc, I bought 2 hen birds thinking this would help but they still seem happier to be together, I have tryed pairing a pair inside my house in a cage and left a pair in the flight is this what i should be doing please help

 

[truecolorsloft]

We had two ringnecks who were given to us, because they wouldn't stop cooing. Well turns out they were both cocks, so we seperated them, and added a female to both. One cock is a proud daddy with two eggs due anytime, though, being raised with a male, he's a bit slow on the fatherly duties. The other male, we added to a "flock" of one male(too old to breeD) and three females(all young). He's breeding, and the older male, helps out with the "maintaince of the flock." I guess he's the grandfather of the group. What you've done with your doves seems to be correct. I mean it's worked for us. But alot of it depends on your individual birds, and their likes/dis-likes.

 

[marksbirds]

Hi, I have bred diamond doves for many years and have had that same problem before. What I did was put the pairs in two separate flights and did not put the nests in until they were in there for 2 weeks. Also dont put the nests in the same place. For some reason they forget real easily about what was there, lol. Anyway I have found this to be the best way to repair them.