How to Feed White Doves
A dove is a beautiful bird often associated with peace. Doves are often used in weddings or at memorials as a symbol of peace. Actually small pigeons, there are different types of doves including tame doves, wild doves and fruit doves. Read on to learn more.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Various types of bird seed
- Popcorn kernels
- Grit
- Grain and wheat
- Soft food
- Grubs and Worms
- Water
- Computer
- Internet access
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Buy a package of bird seed that contains many small seeds. You can buy already made packages of feed for pigeons, wild birds, canaries or finches. Most doves eat small seeds such as millet because they can't break the coating off of the larger seeds like other birds can. They can eat small sunflower seeds and small popcorn kernels.
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Add grit to your bird's diet. Birds need this to grind up their food for digestion. You can grind up egg or oyster shells. This also adds calcium to their diet. Feed the grit separately from the seeds.
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Combine grain or wheat with the seeds. Doves enjoy many types of grain and small seeds. Some tropical doves eat fruit but common doves eat mainly seeds.
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Feed your doves soft food with the seed mix. Some people add cut up hard boiled eggs or cornbread. The eggs add protein to their diet. Or you can add grubs and worms to their diet. You can also add greens on occasion.
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Check that the food dishes, water dishes and cages are clean. You don't want your birds eating contaminated food or living in dirty conditions.
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Provide doves with plenty of fresh water. Make sure you change the water often so the water doesn't get dirty. You don't want them to get sick. Have a separate bird bath for bathing.
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Ask a veterinarian or pet shop owner which foods are best for your particular dove. Check websites like dovepage.com or gamebird.com for more information about feeding specific types of doves.
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Tips & Warnings
Keep seeds in separate dishes if you want to see which seeds they like the best.
There are some claims that it is best not to feed wild doves.
Don't let your seed mix get moldy. Remove old seeds before adding new seeds.
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we had the good fortune to have a white dove adopt us a few weeks ago. My wife says, of course that she is a she, and she has ruby red eyes, so of course we named her "Jewel's" white as pearl-red as ruby.stays in our Ash tre at night, go's up high, then in morning I call her down for breakfast, of sunflower seeds, she swallows agood amount, then sits on a lower branch all day and watches us. We have water buckets next to house for deer and other strays that are thirsty, and she has found them and does well with that. but winter is coming on and I am conerned about what to do for her, had thought about bird cage or bird house, we are Texas.
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I have a white dove and it is sso funny. it coos and laughs...i wish it would fly but the wings have been clipped. very enjoyable to watch him.
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My mom rescued a white dove yesterday morning from the cats around my neighborhood. The dove was injured so she brought it inside our house. We got it a cage and been trying to feed it fruit and bread and water but it won't eat. So we let it out on our yard 1: to see if it'll eat the insects that our yard has & 2: to see if it'll fly away. But it doesn't go as far as our fence! I'm worried it might die if we don't give it the appropriate food that is necessary for it to live. And the bird is such a sweetheart, it lets us pet it and grab it without making a fit! I hope we can keep it; but any suggestions on what to feed the dove? Please help!
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A beautiful white dove has adopted us, we can't get close enough to catch it, but are feeding it 3 times a day. I'm worried about it's safety because the neighborhood is full of stray kitties. We are hoping that we can make it a nest up high so it can perch somewhere else other than on the ground. Any suggestions? LOL, it almost followed me into our house yesterday, I think he thinks he is a puppy!
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robynbird
Dec 02, 2010
My brother received a white dove from his teacher who was moving away in 4th grade and she's still pretty healthy now that he's graduating college. Except for her eyesight sometimes when she flies into things. He thinks she's an albino collared dove. The teacher gave us Bonanza Parakeet Diet, so that's what we've been using all these years, and she seems to like it, but is a little messy like she's picking through it for the parts she likes best. We keep her cage on the windowsill so she can see the wildlife, but if it gets too cold or stormy, which is rare, we move her or cover her with a blanket. I only feed her twice a week, but check more often to see that it's clean, and change her paper once a month. She's never showed interest in people food, unlike the birds we got after her whom she outlived. She looks like she's sleeping right now, but I can never tell, and she...
