PIGEONS FIGHTING

[KiddoPH]

So, I bought pair of pigeons, first was male, then after 2 or 3 days, I bought a female, I knew their genders coz' of the attitude of the male towards the female (Courting) and also their Bones near their butts, female wide V shape and male tight V shape, they are together for 1 week now after I bought the female, now my question is,
why are they fighting and pecking each other like quite violent but not so violent?? cant understand why hmmmmm....

Hoping for answers, thanks

 

[Hokum Coco]

why are they fighting and pecking each other like quite violent but not so violent??

Mistakes happen even with seasoned fanciers you are probably witnessing normal behaviour. If you wind up with 4 or 0 eggs in the nest you have a gay paring.

After you have noticed copulation the clutch (in a perfect world) should arrive approximately in 10+- days females mature slower than males and do not start to lay until they are 6 +- months of age.

For first time parents things are not quite as easy to predict.

 

[biophiliac]

Sometimes newly introduced birds may take a little time to pair up? In some Youtube videos I've seen, fanciers put a divider in their cage or box to let them see but not touch for a few days as they get to know each other. Or if it's 'not too violent' as you say, you may just let them find their own way.

 

[LamarshFish]

What the behavior is really depends on how "violent" it is. Mated pairs or maybe courting birds will "bill" each other, which is pecking at the corner of the mouth. I have never observed this to be violent though, but rather sort of cute.

Pigeons are gregarious birds and feel comfort in numbers, however, they are quite possessive over little things like what perch or nest box they think is theirs. They will peck at each other and wrestle for the first spot at the feeder, things like that.

Any more violent than that, I have only seen in the first few days introducing new birds to each other, which seems to be what you're experiencing. I would give them a few days. Unless you notice tons of feathers all over the place, or bald spots or blood drawn, especially on top of the head, I would let them simply work it out.

Often the tiffs are simply figuring out who is who, and who gets to stay in the nest box or perch they are fighting over, etc, and ends when one gives up.

 

[jak2002003]

When pairing up birds you should put them in a cage / breeding box with a mesh divider in the middle so they can't get to each other, but they can see and be close to each other.

It will take several days before you should remove the divider. If they fight again, separate them for a few more days.

Often the female is not ready to mate, and the male will be frustrated and attack her. Once she is at the right stage to start breeding, she will bond with the male.

Also if you added the female to the males place, he will see her as in intruder to his territory now. The cage, with divider will help sort that out too... give him time to see she is a potential mate, not an intruder.

 

[laughingdog]

Sometimes they are both one sex (should not happen if they are from good family line, as all good working family lines become sexually dimorphic.. if they are not then they are not from good solid family lines), one or both had different mates long or short term even, or one or both are too young. I'm never wrong guessing easily sexes before six to three months on my family lines, however when I open loft bred, or do test pairings for fun of odd birds or rescues, I'll get stumped and surprised constantly (maybe part of for some others too the fun). They can take a week to two months even to settle and accept each other once of age and sex, that said I've seen exceptions where males and females extreamely territorial and aggressive killing others.make sure they have a nest bowl in each back corner of coop loft large cage, and at least two to four perches, food n water on opposite front corners (these all make resource guarding difficult and lesson picking on each other while hopefully form "true pair" bond.

 

[Crzytrkr]

I had the same problem I thought what was a male and female Wich always fight so I took them outta the coop and put them in the same cage they had a fight once and a week later they where preening and feeding each other Great! I thought until I found 4 eggs in the nest bowl and we all know what that means 2 female so I built a larger coop so after a few weeks in quarteen i put too males in the new coop the one male and female sorta bonded but know the one male is know chasing the other male and the female looks completely lost she trys to get with the other female but that big male is always getting between them it's a horror show what to do? Any suggestions I'm open?

 

[Crzytrkr]

I had the same problem I thought what was a male and female Wich always fight so I took them outta the coop and put them in the same cage they had a fight once and a week later they where preening and feeding each other Great! I thought until I found 4 eggs in the nest bowl and we all know what that means 2 female so I built a larger coop so after a few weeks in quarteen i put too males in the new coop the one male and femal

 

[Crzytrkr]

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[Crzytrkr]

Sometimes they are both one sex (should not happen if they are from good family line, as all good working family lines become sexually dimorphic.. if they are not then they are not from good solid family lines), one or both had different mates long or short term even, or one or both are too young. I'm never wrong guessing easily sexes before six to three months on my family lines, however when I open loft bred, or do test pairings for fun of odd birds or rescues, I'll get stumped and surprised constantly (maybe part of for some others too the fun). They can take a week to two months even to settle and accept each other once of age and sex, that said I've seen exceptions where males and females extreamely territorial and aggressive killing others.make sure they have a nest bowl in each back corner of coop loft large cage, and at least two to four perches, food n water on opposite front corners (these all make resource guarding difficult and lesson picking on each other while hopefully form "true pair" bond.

Didnt think of two feeding stations he cant be evry where its a chase game and they where fine when i quarantined them for 3 weeks its a 4x8 coop with a 3x6 run with perches 5 nest boxes and only 4 bird's! Thanx for the deal with food an water at both ends!!!!