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