What sex are these Modena pigeons

[Crystalwhite]

I bought a pair of Modena pigeons from a local auction and i don't no the sex of the pigeons.

 

[sport14692]

It is hard to tell by pictures, you have to monitor them to tell

 

[jlaksono]

hello guys ...
I want to find a beautiful feathered pigeons, if I can help you?
please email to [email protected]

 

[Hokum Coco]

If one of the birds starts displaying this sort of behaviour (mating dance) you know it is a male. It it lays an egg it is a female.

 

[laughingdog]

put two nests, one in each back corner, and if they each take a nest and stay separate in them, bowing way down puffing up and spinning fast and such, they maybe males. two females will usually pair up in a nest laying two sets of eggs about a week apart. if after over a month you have no eggs, you have both males probably. i have two females, maybe three, that act just like males though.. so you never know till you check eggs after a week to tell whether or not fertile (at that point you should see veins and heart/beat, maybe eye and brain).

here is hope you got a pair, or two hens (as flea markets often are full of extra males sold as pairs)! for a while i had an abundance of males for fliers, as way to many to pair to hens, but worked having bachlor pen, for the added genetic variation ect.

 

[Hokum Coco]

I have been around pigeons for years.
I still make mistakes when pairing birds.
I would say I am 90% or above accurate in paring.
If it does not lay an egg chances are it is a male.
(but do not bet the farm on that either)
The one thing I know is 100% correct is
"If it lays an egg it is female"

I heard of one bird a buddy of mine was convinced it was a sterile male for years. Then you guess it laid one egg. It was shortly after that buddy found out his male was actually female.

 

[laughingdog]

I have been around pigeons for years.
I still make mistakes when pairing birds.
I would say I am 90% or above accurate in paring.
If it does not lay an egg chances are it is a male.
(but do not bet the farm on that either)
The one thing I know is 100% correct is
"If it lays an egg it is female"

I heard of one bird a buddy of mine was convinced it was a sterile male for years. Then you guess it laid one egg. It was shortly after that buddy found out his male was actually female.

yup! seen that happen too.. some females just dont lay till later for various reasons i wont pretend to know most of. for a buck or so from wal-mart, theres "grit n gravel" with calcium. its for caged birds, but seems to work best when needed for my pigeons, to get hens to lay better, before i started using laying pellets.

 

[redneckrabbitry]

if you feel there pelvic bone also.. a female will be wider than a male