how do i care for an abandoned dove egg so it will hatch??

Answer 1

Oh, geeze, it's hard. I just posted this a few hours ago to another abandoned egg-watcher. I'm so happy you're helping. Here's how you can keep it alive until you get a hold of the right wildlife people (it's c/p from before):

For now you'll want to keep it at 90 degrees F, ambient temperature. You can warm it in a homemade "brooder box" using a heat lamp (a 70 watt bulb for now, if you don't have infrared, will suffice pointed down into the "nest" in a stretch-neck desk lamp), some soft bedding (a towel will even do for now), in a small, plastic storage box.

Turn the egg three or four times a day. Think of it as incubating it "evenly". Keeping the egg loosely surrounded in a towel, and using a smaller box will help keep the heat around it. Don't cook it with the lamp. Keep it about ten inches above the egg, and underneath it keep a heating pad on the absolute lowest setting. This ought to mimic the mother's undercarriage temperature fairly well. Many baby birds are kept this way while hand feeding, when brooder boxes aren't available.

Call a wildlife authority in the morning. A local vet can tell you who to contact. Local farmers can be really handy, too.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, it really isn't possible. I'm assuming you don't have an incubator or experience with hatching eggs, or you wouldn't have to ask this question. If you owned this equipment and had that experience you'd be lucky to get it to hatch even then.
Reference these websites for more information and additional links:
http://www.wildbirds.com/Babybird_egg.htm

http://nwr.mcnary.wa.us/reports/discovernests.html

Answer 3

Get a bowl of hot water and put a piece of metal of it and then put a cloth or thin towel over that and place the egg ontop. Keep the water hot always.

2nd option.
Get a pot of sand and boil it in some water utnil it's very hot, cool for 5 minutes, then place the egg in the sand and cover the pot up with just a little gap. Open up the pot every once in a while (few hours) and let it breathe for 5 minutes.

Answer 4

Either get an incubator or place it in a heating pad on low until you get an incubator. Beside if its abandoned it probly wasnt any good anyhow. Put it over a flash light, if you see anything other yellow yolk in there then you may have something there unless it has gone rotten already.

Answer 5

Buy an incubator ,and read up on incubating birds , maybe a pigeon fancier can help you out with it . But I would act quickly and do it asap to maintain a good chance of it hatching .

Answer 6

you should call a vet in the morning and in the meantime google it and you will probably find some answers. I remember a light being good for them ( a warming lamp) something like that but a vet would know best.