hand rearing

Hi
thanks to faith i will go into hand rearing pigeons.
1. You have to buy a very good parrot hand rearing mixture.
2.If you can find a way of feeding the young either by a syringe or something like it.
3.At frist the baby will not hink that you are trying to feed it so you need to show that you are by opening the mouth and puting a little food in it once it has cottened on to this then you will see the baby eating it by its self.
4.You will need to feed every 3 hours not at night
5.Once 3 weeks you can put some small bird seed down and springle on the floor they will soon start to pick at it.
6.Once 6 weeks the baby will be fully interpentant and eating by its self

this is what they looked like when i got them.

as yuo can see they are still young so i bring them in at night.these may be the start of a big family i hope.

started with 3 ending with 3

hi this is my frist time blogging.i wanted to start bloggling because i would like to share my thougts and what i have to go though to keep my pet doves safe from cats sparrow hawks etc i am going to start with how it all started i use too have a wedding white dove release compeny with we were doing very well on intill i lost my whloe flock of 12 on one practise release i still do not know where they all went i was very upset it has now been 3 years since i had doves intill in october when i bourgh a old sommer house which i made into a pigeon loft and my mate was moving and could not take his doves with him so i had them off of him i let them out ather 6 weeks and they flew away cut the story short i had a phone call from a freind saying that they have found a brown baby pigeon on the side of the road so i said i would have him because he was lonly i brough two white baby doves that were 3 weeks old and i handreared all of them intill now thay are 4 weeks old no i built them a small dovecote which is more partcal than looks.i am hoping that my 3 doves will amke this there home as i would love to have some doves in the garden.