The incubation period for pigeon eggs is 15 to 18 days. Generally the pigeons should hatch in less than 20 days from the time the eggs are laid.

Management of pigeons during the incubation period:

From the time the pigeons are paired to the time they lay their eggs, it takes 10 to 12 days. The first egg is laid at 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The second egg is laid one day later, on the third day at 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Pigeons usually lay 2 eggs.

The pigeons lay two eggs in a clutch, and after incubation the two chicks often come out of their shells more than a day apart. By the time the second chick breaks out of the shell, the one that came out first has grown a lot. When the parent pigeon feeds, the larger chick will always eat more, and over time, this will result in two chicks, one strong and one weak.

This kind of bad phenomenon does not often happen in the good breeding pigeons, but in order to ensure that the development of the chicks is even, in the parent pigeons produce the first egg, with a fake egg for a real egg, and in the egg with a pencil written on the egg laying period and female parent pigeons of the foot ring number, in order to identify. One hour before the second egg is laid, the first egg is put back into the nest and the fake egg is removed.

In this way, after about 16 days, both chicks are ready to fledge at the same time. In order to grasp the breeding parentage, but also to develop breeding chicks table, each pair of pigeons when the pair, egg laying, chicks birth date, foot ring number, sex, feather color, etc., should be recorded.

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Pigeon hatching attention to the problem:

Regularly check whether there is no bedding, no bedding, then easy to make pigeon eggs eggs rupture and affect the breeding rate. At the same time, we should also pay attention to whether the respective nests are fixed or not, if they are not fixed, it is very easy to cause the nest topple over and break the young pigeons or pigeon eggs.

Because the breeder is not diligent in feeding the young pigeons, it will lead to delayed development of the young pigeons, so the life must be top fourteen years of overfeeding the pigeons, and must be fed with water, the lack of sleep, it will also affect the growth and development of each.

During the week after the respective hatching, the mother pigeon must not be separated from the young pigeons. And pay attention to the hygiene of the loft and the nesting tray to prevent parasites

Don't touch the eggs during the hatching process, as the pigeons are very alert to the outside at this time, and try to keep the loft in a quiet environment.

If the pigeons lay only one egg per clutch, or soft-shelled and sand-shelled eggs, then this is a problem with the nutrition and the health sand.

This is the time to provide each of them with nutritious feed and good quality sand.

If there are several clutches all laying 1 egg at the same time, you can combine two or three clutches into one for hatching.

We have to pay attention to whether the ratio of male pigeons to female pigeons in the flock is appropriate, if there are more male pigeons than female pigeons, it is very easy to have fights and fights, which will also cause more broken eggs

During the process of incubation of the respective pigeons, we have to pick out the eggs that are not of good quality, if we don't take the eggs out in time, and if the respective pigeons are incubated for a long period of time, they will discard the eggs and will affect the ability to feed in the future. the ability to feed in the future.

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