whats the procedure

young roller laid egg monday openened up this morning two eggs in the nest but both birds flew on to the house roof,though there would of been sitting the eggs,been on roof about hour and a half,its a dovecott type loft ive got them in with a door on,cheers any advice welcome

give them a day or two, early days dont count for much

hi frankie, is it the first time they ave been out ? are they already settled to the dovecote or are you trying to settle them using the eggs ...?

hi dave got them as babys been in dovecott about 5 or 6 month.cheers frankie

ah right, so have they been flying out since they were babies then frankie ? if so they will come back in, its just that if they had started to incubate the eggs properly they will probably be cold by now after nearly two hours........

aye dave the havent gone in to eggs for about 2 hours now,at the moment they are just scratting on the lawn.

steve said give them a day or two,but as you say the eggs will be cold,cheers

they shouldnt leave the eggs for 2 hours mate, half hour maybe, dont look like they are interested

hi steve the cock birds sitting on the eggs after 2hours out,the hen bird came to the entrance the cock bird tried to stop it going in,finally got them locked in.just have to wait and see what happens,thanks for advice, frankie

hi lads opened up this morning both birds flew out at 8 oclock the eggs are warm at the moment thought there would be a bird on the eggs at all time.

they will do it in their time

hi steve both birds hung about for an hour,then the cock bird sat on the eggs,the hen bird came in about 9.20,so ive locked them away for the day.ps, hope ime not boring you but i know very little about pigeons.cheers frankie

hi frankie, if it was me i would leave the coop open, then they can come in and out as they please, and also get the routine of changing over the sitting......with it only being small i would liken iit to locking a cock and hen in there nestbox....if you open it they would both probably come out into the loft just as yours are doing, then one would go back and incubate the eggs after a while....

if theres no danger of cats etc, this is what i would do personally.

right david ime takeing your advice in the morning open up about 8 oclock leave it open best part of the day,cheers frankie

hi frankie, is the coop high up on a wall , or fixed somewhere high out of the way from cats ? if so they should be safe enough........

hi dave pretty lucky with cats dont see many where we live probably cos theres a chinese cafe nearby.l.o.l. going to keep it open dill dusk at the mo the cock birds on the nest the hen is just flying round the block at the moment.cheers frankie

Frankie what you will find is the cock will sit during the day and the hen at night. theres a book that you could get that basically a A to Z on keeping pigeons/doves i will see if i can remember what its called

cheers steve.

hi steve the cocks been sitting the eggs all day,the hen keeps coming on the landing board,the cock keeps getting off the nest to chase it away,will the cock let the hen in to do its bit.cheers frankie

should do, good cock there mate

hi steve ive just witnessed the changing of the guards at about 3.30 the cock let the hen in ,and the cock is flying about now,you can tell ime new fangled steve cant you,very thankfull for the help i get off this forum,beats your soccer forums.cheers frankie

another thing to watch for frankie is the sparrowhawk, are there many in your area...?

aye dave the local pigeon men have lost quite a few to the hawks,in fact i seen what looked like a couple of buzzards riding the thermals a couple of days ago,seemed quite a lot bigger than sparrow hawk or kestrel.cheers frankie

i dont think the buzzards and kites will harm your pigeons frankie, the main predetor is the sparrow hawk...........

Like the loft Frankie reminds me of my freinds Paul Brantt who had a hen the flew Pau to a box smaller than the one on the photo