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From: reynolds@felix.UUCP (David Lee Reynolds)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Doves, does anyone on the net own them???
Message-ID: <114973@felix.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 89 21:28:48 GMT
Reply-To: reynolds@felix.UUCP (David Lee Reynolds)
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(This has also been posted to rec.pets)

Well, this is my first time reading the rec.birds, and I was wondering if 
anyone out there has pet doves...

Our story:

  My wife and I have two white doves that were used in our wedding in April.
  Things were going well, until we noticed that after 4 clutches of eggs 
that none of them were fertile!  Well it turns out that they were both female!
  The problem is, now we bought two "Ring-neck" Males and the two white doves
already think they are a "Pair", and are totally rejecting them...  Josie 
and I have now separated the white doves, and clipped the right wing of 
the most aggressive female...  This, at least, has stopped the pecking problem
that the males were receiving, but still no sign of sexual interest in the 
males by the part of the female.  Maybe only time will tell!!

Our Questions:

  Does anyone have a better way of getting our doves to co-habitate?  (Short of 
putting a divider/partition down the middle of my aviary, and sticking one 
of each sex in each side.)?????

  Does anyone know of a club/info group for dove owners and the like???

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