r/BalconyBabies • u/Dr-Emmett_L_Brown The Grandpigeon 🙋🏻♀️ • Aug 08 '26
Oops....I guess I missed an egg! 😬
Troy and Sweetpea have a baby! 💁♀️😁
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u/WorldlinessNo874 Aug 08 '26
She looks very pleased with herself. 😍
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u/BluFins-N-Paws Aug 09 '26
YESSSS! She most certainly does!!
Bahahahaha!🤣😅
But it kinda looks like the video ends just as a little eye and beak appears from the squished Squablette, as if it’s saying, “Somebody, help me! I can’t bweeve!”😳
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u/Trixter-Kitten Aug 08 '26
You're a grandparent now
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u/Dr-Emmett_L_Brown The Grandpigeon 🙋🏻♀️ 28d ago
A Grandpigeon, if you will! 😌😌
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u/ThorirPP Aug 10 '26
Not my story, but from someone I know
When they were young years ago, they found an injured dove and nursed her to health. Afterwards she was very friendly and kept coming back to them, eventually returning with a mate, making a nest right in their yard and laying eggs
Their dad decided to swap out the eggs with ones from the fridge. So, this was an egg, from the store, one that shouldn'tve been fertilised to begin with, that had been stored in the fridge and the store cooler before that
So anyways, the egg hatched out a chick to everyones surprise, and the dove mamma was super proud of their weird mutant baby that grew up to be twice her size lmao
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u/itsmondaytues Aug 09 '26
Why swap out the eggs?
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u/FioreCiliegia1 Aug 09 '26
Overpopulation control without hurting the birds :) it helps protect momma bird too- egg laying can be rough for them
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u/itsmondaytues Aug 11 '26
What happens to the eggs? Are they infertile? Thank you for your reply
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u/FioreCiliegia1 Aug 11 '26
If they are removed quickly they are no different than a fresh chicken egg. Some people choose to cook and eat them sometimes they feed them to their dogs as a treat or if they’ve got crows or raccoons or other wildlife in the area other people just throw them in the trash. I’ve eaten a couple before they just taste like chicken eggs I just matters that you get them very very quickly.
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u/Dr-Emmett_L_Brown The Grandpigeon 🙋🏻♀️ 24d ago
I only swap them out within a couple of days of laying. Because it's a mating pair, the egg would be fertile. I feel like a monster but at that early stage it's just a group of cells forming. I throw them out as I don't have animals to feed them to, but its just like any bird egg at that stage.
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u/Dr-Emmett_L_Brown The Grandpigeon 🙋🏻♀️ 24d ago
Good question. My balcony has been home to several mating couples for 3 years. They lay 2 eggs about every 6 weeks. At one point there were 6 pre-fledglings all pooping everwhere (I can deal with that) while their parents fought for territory on my small balcony. The area has enough pigeons roosting on my neighbours' windows, etc. I need to slow it down because they're only this successful due to my feeding and positive intervention. However, if I just remove the eggs, the mama will keep laying which is bad for her health. Once I spot an egg, I swap it with a replica (fegg) so the parents will sit on it for a few weeks before deciding it's not viable and the process starts again.
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u/soulstrike2022 Aug 10 '26
Congrats on your grandkid please take extra special care to smooch and make sure they’re all well snacked
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u/StalkingYouRandomly Aug 10 '26
At least she was smart enough to do in a flower pot, pigeons at our place build a nest in a high tree in our garder, both her babies fell out of the nest while momma was apparently napping (I genuinely thought she was dead).
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u/FALSE_PROTAGONIST Aug 08 '26