Click Here
to view our photo gallery with pictures of our doves and babies.
Welcome To Our Dove Site
Welcome and thank you for
visiting our website. We started with a pair of white doves that we
purchased
from an individual in the Central Florida area. When we purchased the
doves, they were only 8 weeks old and as cute as can be. We brought them
home and placed them into a cage. In just a few days they become
comfortable with their new home and we started handling them as much as
possible. It was awesome to hear them cooing in the morning. we done
some research about the doves, they said that only the male doves
will make the cooing sounds, well I have to say that they are wrong.
Our first set of doves started to lay eggs, first we noticed that there
was two eggs in the bottom of the cage, then a few days went buy and
there was two more eggs, with this in mind, we realized that we had to
females, and what i said about only the male doves make the cooing
sound, well why does both of our females make the cooing sounds? An we
are sure of this because each female dove will lay two eggs per cycle,
within two days, we had four eggs, and that proved that we have two
females.
We built a nest in the cage for them using a old
plastic dish and wired it into the cage, then placed the eggs into the
basket. The doves took turns sitting on the eggs for about a month. We
took the eggs one by one and held them up to a flashlight to see if
we could see any signs of a baby inside the eggs, but of course having
two females, there was no chance that the eggs were going to hatch. We
removed the eggs from the nest and discarded them. Two more weeks went
buy and the doves started to lay more eggs.
At
this time, we decided to purchase two male doves and start raising white
doves. We searched the internet over and over and finally came across
someone who was selling doves, we contacted the person and asked about
two male white doves, he had them and we decided to purchase them. Even
though the price was kind of high for shipping, it was well worth it, It
took about 2 days from the time of purchasing the male doves to reach
our home. When they arrived, we handled the doves right away, then we
prepared the cages and split up our two females and put a male and
female in each cage. At first, we thought it wasn't going to work
because they were pecking at each other, but as the days went buy, they
bonded together. Both the females produced two eggs each. It
was about three to four weeks and we saw some broken egg shells on the
bottom of the cage,
We
then looked in the nest and there they were, two little baby doves.
Click Here for more pictures of
the two baby doves hatched on March 23, 2006.
This page was last updated on:
06/11/2006
Dove Facts...
White Dovesare actually a variety of Ringneck Dove and not a separate
species.
Dove Colors...
CLICK HERE for a listing of
each color mutation/combination of doves along with a picture.