Can pigeons change nests when they hatch?

During the incubation period, pigeons are most afraid of being disturbed by the outside world. What's more, sudden changes in the environment will make parents very nervous and unstable, which may greatly reduce the success rate of hatching. In severe cases, parents will even abandon the eggs directly, which will eventually lead to the pigeon's eggs getting cold.

Never touch pigeon eggs in the pigeon nest when moving it, otherwise once pigeon eggs smells of other pigeons, the parent pigeons may mistakenly think that the pigeons in this nest are not theirs, and it is very likely that pigeon eggs will be trampled underfoot and destroyed.

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Pigeon's habit

1. During the day, pigeons live at night. Pigeons are very active during the day, often eat and drink, and rest quietly in their habitats or houses at night. So the feeding time should be arranged according to this characteristic. Trained homing pigeons can fly at night.

2. Pigeons are late-maturing birds. After pigeon eggs hatched, the young pigeons could not live independently, stand and walk independently, and could not eat. They need to be fed pigeon milk secreted by their crops for about a month before they can live independently. Pigeons in this period must be protected in management.

3, emotional specificity, monogamy, adult pigeons are selective to their spouses, and after pairing, they are emotional specificity, and participate in nesting, incubating eggs and feeding young pigeons for life. If your partner dies or flies away, it will take some time to find a new spouse. In production, in order to obtain high yield or select improved varieties, people often disassemble the paired breeding pigeons and pair them again.

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