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Crazy Doves

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.

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.

By Monday morning three eggs but by afternoon only one left (they eat these unfertile eggs).

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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No Dove babies this time

I guess we were prepared for this possibility. Young yet mature turtle doves, like many birds, often are not successful with their first eggs.

They actually ate one of the unfertile eggs shell and all.

Then with only two eggs left both Don and Angie spent less time on the nest. After we candled the last eggs Mike removed them.

But guess what, these two love birds seem to be courting again.
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