Baby pigeons: development, feeding, breeding records

Just hatched from an egg, baby pigeons have a rather helpless look: they are naked, blind, they have soft beaks, which allows them to feed themselves. That is why pigeons are altricial type. The cubs first need constant care parents: heating and feeding. Feeding baby pigeons derived from goiters mother and father – pigeon milk, which is usually formed by the time of hatching was young. If these two events do not coincide in time, the brood often perish without the intervention of the pigeon.

Dove and the dove continue to provide milk for newborns on average until the age of four weeks. In the early days it is the only food babies, and 6-7 days added to it a softened grain, which begins expanding.

A Person can intervene in the process of rearing approximately the twentieth day of life. At this time it is advisable to put a separate bowl with a fine grain for golubac. Suitable crushed millet or ground wheat. So baby pigeons not only learn how to bite, but will be better and faster to develop.

If the street is hot, then two weeks cubs can refresh in cold water, dipping them quickly in a suitable container to the head and then pulling back. Especially useful for such procedures to gays weak with a poor appetite.

When the young are starting their first flights from the nest, the biggest danger for the Chicks becomes overheated and thirsty. They can even die because they do not know where is the drinker. In order to avoid trouble, baby take in hand, bring to the bowl and gently submerge into the water beak.

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The feeding of the Chicks without the parents

The baby pigeons hatch weight 13-18 grams, which doubles after a couple of days, and to months of age reaches depending on the breed from 260 to 380 grams. Inner resources for life chick grabs on the day after hatching was, if it is not fed, then after that time he will die. The kids left in the nest, or placed to other families, or feed by a pigeon artificially.

If your option is – the second, in addition to food we need to give gays the contents warm. Up to eight days of age they are fed slightly warm yolk of chicken eggs with added whole milk. So during lunch, the chick didn't get wet, nutrient mixture, you fill the syringe, and instead of a needle put on it cut a thin rubber tube length of about ten centimeters, which is easily injected directly into the esophagus.

After the eighth day, you can tenderize in the liquid milk gruel peas, wheat or lentils, or soak the bread crumbs and use them for feeding. Furthermore, it is well to feed the Chicks with a mixture of liquid protein eggs and ground peas or corn. At each meal you need to add a few large grains of sand or small stones. The dish should be freshly prepared and warm.

In hot weather it is necessary to make sure that the youngsters do not suffer from dehydration. If the goiter chick filled with food, it may not feel thirsty, but will be in distress in the water. To solve the problem will be able to nightly artificial watering it with a pipette.

Breeding records

To improve the quality of the breeding pigeon should have the fullest possible information about each bird: its origin, age and hereditary traits. To do this, the pigeons Pets are banding, which insures from mistakes in the use of breeding animals with a certain heredity.

First you need to decide public or non-removable rings will be supplied with your pigeons. Chicks at the age of seven to nine days can be successfully banded the second method is possible only for the older first. The ring ordinarily, the initial letters of the name of the breeder, the number of birds in the stud book and the last digits the year of her birth. As soon as the procedure was carried out in the stud book are required to bring most detailed information on date of birth of individuals, the coloration of its plumage, number of rings of parents and other important characteristics.