What kind of pigeon is this...

[EggHunter_66]

Looks like a pretty girl to me.
I can only tell be their faces a rough guess.
Im usually right.
Get me a side pic of the face. Then i can tell.
I keel pigeons with chickens and they are fine together.
Provode seperate food and water for her as chickens eat everything dont they?

She will be fine what a great thing you did saving her. What name have you given?
Well done for saving a beautiful animal!

When I picked it up I had an 40 min ride home so by time I got home I named it Petunia (Toot Toot as A nickname ) So i'v kinda been thinking it's a female. Do these pics help?

 

[EggHunter_66]

Beautiful!

What age do pigeons start laying?

Good question, I'm glad you asked that because I learned something new when I saw the answer!

 

[Spiderduck]

Definitly a girl in my eyes.
She has a slimmer beak and her face is slinmer and more petite.

 

[FirstTimeClucky]

Definitly a girl in my eyes.
She has a slimmer beak and her face is slinmer and more petite.

I've learned the hard way that you can't tell the sex of pigeons by their appearance or even by their behaviour.

First I bought a "pair" of young Jacobins. They got along at first but then fought like cats and dogs, bow-cooing at each other day and night, and tore each others' hood feathers out, so I guessed they were male. I sold one because they couldn't be kept together. I put the remaining one with my Turkish tumbler hen (who looks almost exactly like the OP's bird). I knew the tumbler was female because she had previously laid eggs. They went into full courtship mode, preening and feeding each other. Guess who laid eggs - both of them! Both clutches were duds of course.

Then there's my "pair" of Indian fantails. The breeder (experienced and well known with his show birds) swore they were male and female. They got along fine with no displaying or fighting, and I was waiting for the eggs, which never came. I tried splitting them up, putting one with the tumbler hen and one with the Jacobin hen. They started courting immediately and both hens laid fertile eggs, which means both fantails are male.

There are only two ways to definitively sex a pigeon - DNA or whether they lay eggs. If you're not planning to breed them and just want a pet, the sex doesn't matter anyway. If you decide to get more birds - get some plastic eggs as well. Pigeons are very prolific.

 

[EggHunter_66]

I've learned the hard way that you can't tell the sex of pigeons by their appearance or even by their behaviour.

First I bought a "pair" of young Jacobins. They got along at first but then fought like cats and dogs, bow-cooing at each other day and night, and tore each others' hood feathers out, so I guessed they were male. I sold one because they couldn't be kept together. I put the remaining one with my Turkish tumbler hen (who looks almost exactly like the OP's bird). I knew the tumbler was female because she had previously laid eggs. They went into full courtship mode, preening and feeding each other. Guess who laid eggs - both of them! Both clutches were duds of course.

Then there's my "pair" of Indian fantails. The breeder (experienced and well known with his show birds) swore they were male and female. They got along fine with no displaying or fighting, and I was waiting for the eggs, which never came. I tried splitting them up, putting one with the tumbler hen and one with the Jacobin hen. They started courting immediately and both hens laid fertile eggs, which means both fantails are male.

There are only two ways to definitively sex a pigeon - DNA or whether they lay eggs. If you're not planning to breed them and just want a pet, the sex doesn't matter anyway. If you decide to get more birds - get some plastic eggs as well. Pigeons are very prolific.

Thank you, that was interesting reading and you know.....Your right, it really doesn't matter the sex cause I'm not going to breed.
Plastic eggs....good idea!

 

[Hokum Coco]

Definitly a girl in my eyes.

I can see why you would think that and you maybe right when looking at the top photo.

I think it is ♂ when I look at the bottom photo and the size of the plumage on the neck.

One thing I have found when sexing pigeons " IF it lays an egg it is DEFINITELY female"

Every fancier has made mistakes in sexing and I am no exception. FirstTimeClucky has it right.

As far as specific breed that colouration could be common in quite an assortment of breeds and could even possibly be a feral (which I doubt). I think also it is a very young bird not even a year old by the size of the cere.

 

[LamarshFish]

I'm pretty new to pigeons, but it looks like a homer or some performance breed. Coloration, where do we start, to me it just looks like a red or silver barred bird was crossed with an all white bird.

Dark eyes like that, at least in homing pigeons, mean it is a young bird, typically younger than 3 months of age.