Pigeons lay two eggs in a nest, and often have two more chick shells every day after hatching. When the second young pigeon hatched, the first one had grown up a lot. Older young pigeons always need to eat more when feeding their parents. Over time, two young pigeons will be strong and weak.
Although this bad phenomenon does not often happen among parents who are good at brooding, in order to ensure the uniform development of young pigeons, we can change fake eggs into real eggs after parents give birth to their first eggs, and write down the laying date and the number of female pigeons' ankles on the eggs with a pencil for identification.
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Living habits
Male and female pigeons nest together, hatch eggs, and raise young pigeons. After mating, they will look for nesting materials and build nests. Male pigeons with good production performance also have the behavior of "breaking their wives" If the female pigeon leaves the nest, the male pigeon will chase the female pigeon back to the nest to lay eggs.
After the female pigeon lays eggs, the male pigeon and the female pigeon take turns to hatch eggs. Male pigeons hatch in the nest at 9 am every day, while female pigeons go out for food and activities. At 5 pm, the mother pigeon enters the nest and hatches until 9 am the next day. In this way, the male and female pigeons alternate day after day until the young pigeons hatch.
After the young pigeons hatch, the male and female pigeons jointly secrete pigeon milk to feed the young pigeons. The incubation period in pigeon eggs is generally around 17 days. After this time, before the young pigeons hatch, parents will give up the old nest and find a new nest to lay eggs before hatching.