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How does one sex a bird? I mean there’s no obvious way to know if the doves are male or female. Just the word from the last owners that there’s one of each. I can’t even tell them apart.
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Three weeks after the first four Christmas eggs didn’t hatch Don and Angie, guess I’ll stick with those names, began laying again. Last Saturday one egg, then Sunday number two but it had a chip in the shell.
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By Monday morning three eggs but by afternoon only one left (they eat these unfertile eggs).
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Tuesday morning no eggs and by afternoon they’re starting over again with one egg. This makes a grand total of eight dove eggs with, so far, no babies. Sure have to give them credit for trying.
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Three weeks after the first four Christmas eggs didn’t hatch Don and Angie, guess I’ll stick with those names, began laying again. Last Saturday one egg, then Sunday number two but it had a chip in the shell.
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By Monday morning three eggs but by afternoon only one left (they eat these unfertile eggs).
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Tuesday morning no eggs and by afternoon they’re starting over again with one egg. This makes a grand total of eight dove eggs with, so far, no babies. Sure have to give them credit for trying.
Gosh, didn't know they ate the eggs that wouldn't hatch. I had a pair of hamsters and the female ate her babies, apparently because she felt threatened. Disgusted me….
Hope these doves end up with a junior or two.
That's me, Bibi, from a different account. 🙂
Oh wow, Gaelyn, I thought my bird book (here in N/Africa) would be able to tell how to tell the sexes apart. Not so. I think they are alike – in SA they are. Imagine the perseverance this gorgeous pair is showing. I do hope they hatch at least one baby.
Gaelyn: that has to get frustrating after to many attempts.
They seem so tame; but maybe not quite getting into the whole egg laying thing. Really interesting post!
got to give them positive kudos for not giving up…practice makes perfect.
have a wonderful day!
Oh I see, he is keeping the doves…
Aw, I love the sleepy eyelids in the first shot. My guess is since you're seeing four eggs each time you probably have two females laying two eggs each.
now this has got my curiosity up, so I am going to do some googling today to see if I can get an answer for you!
Persistence is key! Good luck birdies!
It's not about the eggs, it's about the sex.
Well..I had no idea ..about the eating of the infertile eggs and such.I hope these two have some luck..look forward to seeing a babe…
Hmm, all that laying and no chicks might make a person think Don and Angie are both girls…
Didn't know they ate the infertile eggs.
Frustrating! I've seen the opposite in our (old) yard one year. Wish I had taken pics of it, but I wasn't blogging then.
The doves on a pillar underneath the patio cover got two babies – raised them till they could fly, and not much later (a few weeks?) they had two babies again!
Boy they need to eat them to replace all that calcium..I don't know how to sex these birds… a google search might help?