Orphaned or rejected chick feed

[Cythe Lynn]

What can you feed them with? Is their a ready made product? As you know one of the doves has an ineffective male who isnt helping to feed.

Last time she only annually managed to rear the strongest chick. Shes a good mum but
I suppose she just couldnt physically produce enough crop milk even with us toping the feed up many times a day.

Unfortunately the new eggs hatched before I could sneak 1 away. I didnt have the courage to remove one of the chicks.

Weve scientifically discussed taking one out of the nest and hand rearin it and I feel if we do it should be the stronger of the 2 asuming she'll do a better job with the weaker one than we can.

Initialy I considered supplementing the smaller one but I think she quickly going to get pretty upset in fact shes so protective I dont think its going to be possible.

I would be grateful for any advice.

[Kwonger]

I does'nt doubt which this has worked for you in the past, but my past expereince with justly giving pigeons any dairy products has been detrimental. Their bodies should'nt digest milk & cream. All babies which I ever gave milk or cream to, hastily died. (three birds.)
I've used K-Tee brand baby bird formula, (I think it is for Cockatoos) with great success thou. I used an eye dropper.
Have also used especially coked aostmael mixed with alot of water, and cooked rice with alot of water, all with great success.

The parents feed their 'pigeon milk' (which is not actually milk.)
to the babies for less than their first 5 days. Generally speaking after that, they are mostly feduing whole seeds and water. So, any babiues that are more than a week old, can be lazily fed whole seeds. (Preferably, small seeds.

[Mr Twister]

Try a litrtle baby formula with some cream in it.Some times this shall get the baby trugh untill the parents starte it on feed.