Rural Gardening: The baby pigeons are here!, 0 by Harmonyplace

Harmonyplace wrote:
They hatched some time this morning.
Their parents are Black Winged German Shield Owls and are beautiful birds.
These babys eyes are still closed and they are tiny as you see but will double their birth weight in 48 hours.
Feeding hasn't occurred so they are less than and hour old as the parents feed them "Pigeon Milk" in the first hour.
You will notice that one is bigger than the other the reason being the hen lays the first egg then won't lay the second for 2 days.
This can be a problem if the bigger chick is stronger he could push the small one aside and it would get less food and not develope correctly.
Thats when i intervene and put in a second nest and the parents will feed both or if the big one is old enough i will put him on some straw on the bottom of the pen.
I usally don't have to do that but i thought the information might be interesting.
Here's a little known fact a baby pigeon will be fully mature and feeding itself in 35 days


I will post again in 1 week to let you see them grow that will be Oct. 3

Anybody got any good names for these ugly wugies