What happens to the doves after a wedding?

Question

Are the doves released at weddings, parties, etc. actually set free into the wild or are they recaptured and used again?

Answer 1

I do not know about Your vicinity. And sorry to spoil Your dreams.
They fly again at the next celebration for that is their job.
They are symbolic messengers flying to bring tidings.

Here You would normally not use doves from races that can not navigate home - that would be cruel against them. They are not given freedom - they are set to fly home or to a place close where a movable home was set up with them and for them. They are trained to return home or to that movable home.

The very custom of setting the doves free at celebrations comes from sending messengers home ( e. g. from the Olympics ).
Some of the early messenger races had many white individuals
or individuals that were almost white.

& You do not have to recapture them; doves are sedentary animals that try to get back to their home. They are tame animals - doves have been domesticated for thousands of years. You only have to recapture to help them if they loose their way.

A wild dove would be blue - the wild rock pigeon (named after the habitat) from which they come is normally blue and has black marks on the wings (like many of the wild town pigeons). They live in parts of Europe and the Near East were they find rocks. When men started to build stone houses and plant grassse for food (or maybe even in the caverns) they were domesticated in the Near East ( Libanon and so ). There You even today find some of the prettiest and most valuable doves.

The town pigeon/dove that You often see are offspring from pigeons & doves that lost their home or way. At a ceratin young age they do not know to navigate well. If the get scarred they fly away and are lost. Wild doves also come from lost homing pigeons.

The wedding doves can be small white racing pigeons ( even )
- if You look close - You can see at their nostrils/beeks what they are and how old. Or they can be breeds crossed with homing pigeons. Some dove races also have a keen sence for distance flight and finding home.

Answer 2

After the wedding the doves fly back to the place they were raised. Usually they are just racing homer pigeons that are bred to be white and very small. They do not gain any sort of freedom from being released. While this may sound cruel that they are just used for weddings and then go back to captivity, but they live in that coop where they always have food, water, and shelter. Many pigeon fanciers actually fly their birds at home. So really flying back home after they are released is just routine and they really don t want to do anything else.

Hope this helped!

Answer 3

If a bonafide wedding ceremony Dove provider components the Doves, they're going to return directly homestead, they are completely knowledgeable, we've by no skill lost considered one of our doves in the time of the 6 years we've been doing this.

Answer 4

The doves are actually a kind of pigeon, and will find their own way back to their home. They have a very good homing instinct.

Answer 5

They go to the Dove Motel and make sloppy dove love all night loooooong!

Answer 6

They are actually white homing pigeons and they return to their nesting areas. This is common knowledge. Most are very much loved by their care givers.

Answer 7

After crapping on all the wedding guests, they are then shot by folk such as Dick Cheney (after he shoots his friends, of course), and then served to Dubya in the White House.......who says....

"This is real good chicken!!!"

Answer 8

they are trained to come back for the next wedding

Answer 9

They will find their way back to the coup to be employed again.

Answer 10

yes they are trained to got back to the trainers house