Rural Gardening: Baby Dove , 1 by Harmonyplace

Harmonyplace wrote:
Doves are very easy to care for and are very entertaining The male will coo and he loves to give his mates neck nibbles. I give them a small wooden nest and put in a little straw but they will add feathers and any little thing they can find. The female lays 2 white eggs and both male and female sit on the eggs. Just 18 short days later 2 babys hatch and the parents feed {regurgitate}them within one hour of hatching a mixture of seeds and water crushed into whats called crop milk. After a couple days they will feed them seeds mixed with water as before only less crushed and eventualy they will pickup seeds get a little water and immediately regurgitate into thier mouths. All too soon they feather out and in no time they are feeding themselves.