Pigeon laid 4 eggs!

[Teardrop Acres]

I have a male and a female pair she did lay 4 eggs a week ago she kicked one out of the nest.... This was what I had in the box this morning. They are rollers. Oddly I have homing pigeons in anther cage that did the same thing but the eggs were not fertile

 

[laughingdog]

Breeding my ports, i found one hen has done this, when she abandoned then. Im not getting fertileeggs yet i think, but one pair caring for old racing hen's young, only one odd egg she has laid that know of, as rescued by guy out of state, asher keel was smashed/ground/dented badly, during storm crash, car colision, or bad BOP attack. i tried locating owner, but racing club not active, disbanded etc, n band didn't have owner info at all.

 

[Teardrop Acres]

Update

She kicked one egg out of the nest
3 hatched
she would not feed one of the 3
there are two now one is huge ! it is double the size of the other one
It scared me some ...I don't know what will happen ...I will keep you updated

 

[laughingdog]

Take huge one out for the day, each day, until size even out. gives lil one extra at first to catch up on "crop milk" especially.
just noticed how old last post was.. thought id been on sooner, hope all went well!

 

[Hokum Coco]

My kazan hen laid 4 eggs and her and her mate are setting them! I don't know why they laid 4! usually pigeon only lay two!
Has anyone else every had a pigeon do this?

I would bet money you have a pair of lesbian pigeons with outside male interest. Keep us posted I have called things wrong before..

 

[Mabdo]

They must be hens. If one is acting like a male, it is probably the dominant of the two. Also, you could have another bird laying in the nest.

I was checking on my flock yesterday and I noticed one of the nests has 5 eggs ..."WhAT!!!!" now there's something you don't see every day. I have come accustomed to hens that Lay three and almost always one of the three is not fertile if not two.

I searched Youtube and Google until I found this post today 4/29/2019 for answers. Yes, I agree it could be two hens laying in the same next together but it could also be two pairs wanting the same nest. I don't know why but I have nests that equal their numbers but the birds are always fighting over the same nests while there are about 10-15 available empty nests. They end up fighting and killing each other. In my case, I think I have a Male heavy coop and I need to build a large cage to separate the males from the females and count. So I doubt I have two hens together but rather a pair that want the same nest. Today I will see who is sitting on the eggs and follow day by day to see if the birds are different. I hope someone will sit on them because it would be such a waste. We'll see 18 days from yesterday.

 

[jak2002003]

My birds never do the 'normal' things either.

In the past I often had the same female pair that both mate with the dominant male (which is paired to another hen in his own nest).

Then the 2 hens lay their eggs (total 4) in the same nest and raise their squabs together, with the male popping in to help out with feeding only (no brooding). The dominant male has his own mate, which always abandons her squabs, nest and mate when her squabs are one week old.

Her mate is left to rear them himself (which he is very good as now). She goes off and has her 'secret lover' male and has 2 eggs in his nest on the floor in the corner of the coop, again abandoning the squabs at a week old, then she goes and has a rest doing nothing. This happened every season for several years.

I even had a surprise when I heard a strange cheeping sound from a nest... only to find one of my bantam chickens had sneaked an egg into the pigeon nest! The pigeons reared the chick to my shock with no problem... even adapting to follow and protect the chick on the ground and outside when it ran about as chickens do (not staying in the nest like a squabs). Then even brooded it on the ground like chicken hen would.

 

[purslanegarden]

I wonder if they became worried that their big baby is not eating crop milk but instead scratching at the ground for food!