For all of you that read my previous post, Of Birds and Their Baby’s…Maybe, here is the result. After three weeks of waiting, the eggs didn’t hatch. Talk about anti-climatic! We still don’t know if we have two females or a mated pair, but we will have to wait and see. We have read that sometimes the first brood doesn’t hatch, but the rest do. Even right now the doves are starting to prepare the nest …
Of Birds and Their Babies… Maybe – Part 2
by Victoria | Sep 20, 2009 | Family News | 4 comments
Hopefully you get some chicks the second time around. I think when the parent birds are young, sometimes the first brood doesn’t turn out.
I just heard from Em that we have 5 baby cockatiels that hatched in the last week. 🙂
Hmmm – can you eat dove eggs? – I guess it would take a dozen to make a spoon-full of scrambled – what shall we call them – doveggs or deggs… 🙂 Can you tell if there’s a chick inside if you hold them up to the light or something? Hope it works next time!
Wow, Tim! So does that make 20 cockatiels now?? 🙂 Michael: Dad has threatened a few times to eat them, but has always decided that they wouldn’t be worth the trouble. 🙂 The shells almost look transparent,and I tried holding them up to the light, but… no success. 🙁 We’ll just have to wait and see what happens now…
That must have been very disappointing. I hope the next batch turns out better.
I think you can eat dove eggs. We were visiting friends one time and they had them over easy – very small. It was either dove or an exhotic quail of some sort, I don’t remember.