crop milk

Orphaned or rejected chick feed
In category Pigeons
Written by 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 a

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re:runt chick
In category Pigeons
Written by Kwonger

I've been away for a long time so may be this question has been uniformly answered.
Because of hot whether I've just had one of two eggs hatch 30 hours before the other. The three day old chick is three times bigfger than the two day old chick, and that chick is not yet twice its size at hatching.
I am arfgaid that the small chick will die because it won't be able to compete for food in the nest.

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