when do they usually stop giving crop milk??

[Majd]

I usually feed my pigeons wheat and corn and some rice with other grains.... my pair hatched out their first set of eggs 3 days ago and they were feeding them crop milk until their crops nearly explode. .... yesterday I gave them some layer pallets as I heard it has good proteins that the parents and the babies need at this stage and they ate it like monsters... today I noticed that the babies have a loy of layer pellets in their crops..... the parents were feeding them layer pellets. ... is that normal at this stage... I'm quite sure that they should keep on pire crop milk till the 7th and even the 10th day... then the parents start giving a mixture of seeds and crop milk until the second week... from the second week on... only seeds.... and I read that newly hatched squabs like mine can't digest solid food yet and they might be in danger.... so the question is. ... is that normal... can this happen often... can my squabs be threatened? ???
Help me out before I go to my exams that is after 3 hours... and I probably won't do good because my mind will be with my first brood of squabs....
Appreciate all of the helps offered..... thank you anyways guys

 

[Hokum Coco]

I usually allow my foster parents to take over squabs of my best birds 5 days after hatching. I researched that if they did not receive the crop milk they would die if given to a foster parent before that time.

I never lost a squab to a foster parent. I am thinking crop milk stops at about 3 days when their eyes open.

Just my best guess.

I feed my bird meat builder (the same stuff that meat king or Cornish cross are fed even higher in protein then layer pellets) I feed layer pellet up until the eggs arrive.

All of my adult homers can home 100 miles at a drop of a hat! One or two 600 miles.

Works for me~!

 

[Majd]

Yeah that's what I think too... as many other information are not true and very exaggerated. . I've been told that they won't open their eyes until the 7th day but mine started today!!! Great thing that someone tells about a real experience not something written or told by others. .. because here nothimd is a rule. ..... as you said I gave them some layer pellets before they lay and I think its a good variation woth their other diet now as it has extra protein. .... thank you again hokum coco for your help... now I can do my exams fine.. not being worried about them.... and really they got very big... extraordinary growth.... when it happens in front of you it's more exciting than seeing pictures and reading arlicles... thank you again hokum coco! !!!

 

[Majd]

Also I'll try some meat builders as you do too... seems that I agree with you on everything as you are realistic. ... thanks again

 

[Majd]

And I'll try posting some pics from my computer after the exams

 

[Majd]

As for mentioning... my chicken hatched out three little naked neck chicks.. so cute

 

[Hokum Coco]

Like I may have mentioned to you before. Squabs do not grow every day they EXPLODE!! every day.

 

[Majd]

Hahahahaha... soooo true ))