the strangest thing I have ever seen...

[snyd08]

i agree with above ^^ pictures please!!

 

[laughingdog]

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Different pigeon breeds do just fine raising other breeds. So the Oriental rollers would be fine raising the Birmingham babies. However, I would only give the ringnecks one roller egg to raise at a time. You may want to incubate it for a couple days before you put it under the doves too...as their eggs normally hatch in 14 days

While pigeons take 18 days to hatch.

so thats the conflicting thing.. i was getting some saying pigeons and doves incubate for 12 to 14 days, while others were saying up to twenty. so doves shorter, and pigeons longer. good to know! my four ringnecks were all feeding the one pudgy little racer (before i started excercising it).
on an unrelated topic, this young, seeming racer, i got eggs from burnt out loft of abandoned/gone feral parents that were banded, just this morning was stretching its wings hovering between cages for a min in mid jump/flight, and it did a roll/flip!!! do some pigeon just occasionally roll for no apparent reason, or could it have been just trying to stop quick or something? as it was just such a pleasant surprise right in front of me. and just been flying normal since, but stopping in midair like humming bird like going to do again, but hasnt that ive seen. wasnt like rollers roll, but just interesting.

 

[manybirds]

Poor lesbian pigeons lol! YOu'll have to get them some men! I have a Indian fantail hen sitting right now.

 

[laughingdog]

i wasnt going to comment on the "poor lesbian pigeons" much, but thought it was hilarious, and if they just didnt want to pair up with the boys.. hahaha

 

[ridinglizzard]

Oh, I think the old girls would love a male mate, but my coop is short on boys!! I have bad luck keeping males... they seem to get picked off by hawks sooner than the females.

Right now I have 3 adult females, 1 adult male, 1 juvenile male and 1 juvenile female, and a squab. Maybe by next spring my 2 young males will be ready for the challenge

 

[DrinkTheRainbow]

So how would you get them to sit on eggs? Especially if they didn't lay it themselves?

 

[ridinglizzard]

When two females pair up they each lay eggs, so there are 4 eggs/nest. That is an easy way to tell if you have 2 females nesting together.

If it was a male and female together, there would only be 2 eggs in the nest.

 

[laughingdog]

i have a suppsed pair of ringnecks and turtle doves, but think both ringnecks are boys by how they act, though also take turns acting feminine, though had all four together, and each nest had four eggs, as one nest had two, then four, then the other had four.. they hatched though, so im confused. each of the four birds took two eggs, though the white one know is girl, would steal the other one or two from mate, or when itd get off nest.