Yay! my ring neck doves laid eggs!

[studd muffin]

I hope that they get eaten by Alligator Lizards..... JK..... Good luck with them.... They are delicious!!!

lol ive seen them hanging onto the screen on my aviary! but its critter prof!

 

[Vicious_Fish]

update: So last night the mother only laid one egg. i thought she laid two. Around 7pm i went back out to check on the mother and she wasnt sitting on the egg! it was cold and windy last night. she didnt sit on it for like an hour so im guessing the egg got cold and its probably not going to hatch.

Not necessarily. Most female birds don't start sitting on and incubating their eggs until all have been laid. If they did sit on their eggs immediately, the eggs would all hatch at different times. The embryo stays dormant until it has the proper, constant heat supply needed to develop.

You can basically take a fertilized chicken egg and stick it in your fridge for a couple of weeks, take it out and incubate it and it will hatch into a healthy chick.

Just wait a day or so, your female dove will probably lay the other egg.

 

[studd muffin]

Not necessarily. Most female birds don't start sitting on and incubating their eggs until all have been laid. If they did sit on their eggs immediately, the eggs would all hatch at different times. The embryo stays dormant until it has the proper, constant heat supply needed to develop.

You can basically take a fertilized chicken egg and stick it in your fridge for a couple of weeks, take it out and incubate it and it will hatch into a healthy chick.

Just wait a day or so, your female dove will probably lay the other egg.

thanks for the heads up! and i did not know that! i thought if an egg got to cold it would never hatch.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

thanks for the heads up! and i did not know that! i thought if an egg got to cold it would never hatch.

I'm pretty sure as long as it doesn't get below the 40's, it will be fine.

 

[gigas12]

Hi,congrats and good luck!

 

[studd muffin]

One hatched today! YEEE!

 

[Etunes]

pics??

 

[jason longboard]

If they look like baby pigeons (aka Rock Doves) they will be. I've raised dozens of baby Homing, Tumbler and Roller Pigeons and I never saw a cute baby.

Dear Gawd!!!! They are so cute!!

 

[studd muffin]

pics??

cant really see the baby. best picture so far lol...ill try to get one when the mom and dad is out of the nest. One egg didnt hatch so there is only one baby.

 

[Louie]

Very pretty dove love them.