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froger10198 asked in PetsBirds · 1 decade ago

A dove laied two eggs and ahs abandend them is there any thing i can to, to help keep them alive? pleas help?

A femail dove laied to egg's in a plant box out side my window. I wached the dove and her egg's because of her poor nest placement {she bult a thin nest and in an unshelted spot}. she has never left the egg's alone for a long pereod of time and i wen to look at the egg's as i allways have and she has bin gone for 3 day's and i am worryed. i have taken the egg's in side the hosue and they are in a dry room and under a lamp is there any thing more i can do to help insure thye live?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Sadly if she's been gone for 3 days there there isn't much hope for them to be alive. Once the mother starts to sit on the eggs they start to grow once they get cold they die.

    If she hasn't started to sit on them however she might be waiting to lay all the eggs and start sitting on them at once but this is not something that happens much in the wild and normally only with bird who breed inside (pet birds).

    If you've ever hand fed baby birds (I'm guessing you haven't) you could try to get a an incubator to keep them in and then hand raise them when they hatch, normally I buy my incubators at farm stores. However hand feeding a baby bird from day one is a very hard thing to do and even when you’ve hand fed them for years most still can’t keep them alive.

    Most breeders will hand feed at the soonest 3 days old because of how small baby birds are and how quickly you can over load their crop. My last baby bird had me staying up in the middle of the night for 5 hours at 2 in the morning holding his head up and making sure the food in his crop didn’t slide up his neck just because I had slightly over filled his crop and he was already about two weeks (now a beautiful cockatiel).

    I’ve only ever lost one baby bird and it was a wild bird that I was trying to save when the egg was pushed from the nest. If I had left it he never would have hatched and had suffered the pain of dying because his crop was to full.

    If you do want to try and hand feed go to your local pet store and get some hand feeding formula all are pretty good. After it hatches you simply want to wait 12 hours before feeding it anything, then give it one drop of water, and slowly stretch his crop. I’m going to put a link to a great cockatiel breeding page, as to how to hand feed it will be the same as a bird like that, other then the size and amount of food.

    Remember with baby birds, too little is always better then to much food, you can always feed him half as much food two time more a day instead of twice as much food and risk over feeding.

    Keep in mind also that if you do raise these birds you'll be looking at getting a wild bird license to own them as they will be very attached to humans and act just like any other hand raised human owned bird. They’ll sit on your shoulder and want to be with you and not know how to find food outside.

    http://www.cockatielcottage.net/feeding.html

    IM me if you need help with them if they do hatch.

    On a side note to the so called other breeder who answered you, they make baby bird food and sell it at all pet stores you would never make baby bird food on your own.

    Also to the others on here about how you would teach it to fly, I've raised a lot of birds and have never once seen a parent bird help it's babys learn to fly, the minute they leave the nest box they start learning on their own, mom and dad are far to busy making sure to feed them enough to care if they fly or not.

    As to when they grow up get them a good pellet food to eat. People don't understand that parrots are also meat eaters and need more then just seeds to live on and there for pellet food for parrots is just as good and better then what most wild birds eat.

    Source(s): Owner of 20 birds and their chicks, breeder.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Your chances are nil. Incubation depends on correct temperature ,humidity, and rolling the eggs over several times a day. IN the unlikely event of hatching them then the squabs (baby pigeons and doves) require predigested food regurgitated by adults which you would have to synthesis if possible and feed several times a hour for several weeks, so forget it there is no shortage of doves anyway sorry.

    Source(s): I raise doves and pigeons.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It may be too late, your presence may have spooked the dove. Since you have touched the eggs, mom will never pay any attention to them again. Since you brought them in the house mom can't tend to them even if she did come back. In the event they should hatch, how and what are you going to feed them, also can you teach them to fly ? Don't worry too much though, most garden variety doves (ringneck and mourning) are dumb birds , the ringneck is on many nuisance bird lists. It could be something happened to the mom or she knew the eggs were not good.

  • 1 decade ago

    if she has been gone three days it may be to late, gently turn them at least once a day and keep them warm but not hot...they incubate in 22 days...if they do hatch go to the pet store and get baby bird setup (the people should help you) and get ready to feed them every 20 to 25 min a day until they have feathers...hope it helps.

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  • 1 decade ago

    you should try your best to keep them alive, maybe get some live bait if they hatch alive then mash them up and feed the worms to them. but i have no idea how you would teach them to fly. maybe if you keep them safe in the house, you could keep them as pets or something. that would possibly work out the best for the eggs and you, because the birds get a home and you don't have to worry about them!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    keep one alive and make the other into an omelete and feed it to the one that is still alive.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    no just leve them there probley alredy dead sorry let nature take it corse

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