does any one know how to tell a female and a male dove apart?

Question

I have 2 doves but cant tell who is a male and whis is a female.

I meant to say which is which.

Answer 1

I really don't know. What kind of doves are they? Or what do they look like? The doves I'm familiar with may differ from the ones you're talking about. So I'll list what I know and tell me if it helps. It's hard to tell, since both parents will alternately sit on the nest and produce "pigeon milk" to feed the young. Are you sure that you got a male and a female? Doves are one of the odd bird species in which the male doesn't have brighter, different, more colorful plumage. You could have two males or two females. My guess would be to wait until they make a nest (if at all) and watch which bird is sitting on it when new eggs appear. They don't lay them all at once....there's about a two-day gap between eggs. Hatching is approximately 21 days from the last egg-laying. Male birds must mate from atop the female (so the cloaca's can touch to transfer the sperm....they have a very primitive penis) so you could look for that (if they're opposite sexes) and put a leg band or something on the male or the female.......


Hope that kinda helped you out! I'll be checking back, so if you add anything to your question, I can try to help.

Thanks, Waine! I didn't know doves did that, but I do now. I thought there might be some sort of differentiating behavior; I just wasn't sure exactly what it was. I'm giving you a thumbs-up, for using your knowledge to actually give people decent answers to their questions.

Answer 2

wWell I am the head poultryman ath the poultry farm i work at but i help out in the pigeon department when all is quiet so i know a thing or 2 and sence we have pigeons and doves over ther, i know this one. Put all of your doves in one area and then watch then have a seat and watch them,. After a little bit one of them will puff up his crop (his neck) and will start going in circles around another one and cooing alought. The one who is puffed up and cooing is the male (or in bird terems and not being a perv, the cock bird) and the one more than likely trying to walk away from the male is the female (hen). I hope this will help you out, its the eaisist way to tell and the one we use most of the time, and better than the, wich ever one lays egs thing.
Sincerely, Waine
-YRPF head poultryman

Answer 3

wait until 1 has babies....if ur a retard,the female dove would have babies

Answer 4

the male is the one just sitting there doing nothing.

the female is the one that won't shut the he11 up!

Answer 5

i think the beak is different in male and female.

Answer 6

just wait unitl one starts humping the other one