The pigeon chick seems to be doing well and is getting less ugly each day. The mother is very attentive and I have to be really sneaky to get a picture of the nest. I am concerned that the temperatures are going to get below freezing tonight. I hope momma will keep her baby pigeon warm enough. Still no action on the second egg, not sure if I should remove it from the nest or just let it be. On the positive side, the one chick is getting all the crop and attention from the mother. Which means it should grow and develop faster than if there were two chicks in the nest.

The lone pigeon that hatched seems to be doing just fine. He is one ugly little chick. The second egg still has yet to hatch. I am afraid that perhaps this other egg was not fertile to begin with. One chick may be all we get this time around. On the brighter side, more members of the flock are roosting in my barn each night. They are eating the food that I put out, but it drives my dogs crazy to see them walking around barely 20 feet from their kennel. I wonder how Abby and Jake will react to having 500 Chukar Partridge living next to them in the barn. Perhaps it will help to increase their prey drive for game birds.

While checking the pigeon nest in my barn this afternoon I discovered that one of the eggs had hatched. It was an awkward looking pile of skin wriggling around in the nest. I would dare say the second egg will hatch later today sometime. The other pigeons in the flock are starting to come a little further into the barn for the feed I put out for them. Today I picked up the lumber to build a pigeon coop in my barn next to the chicken coop. The spot already has an existing aviary and will work quite nicely for raising pigeons.