The national standard squab book . EGGS IN THE NEST,. SQUABS JUST HATCHED. 64 LAYING AND HATCHING 65 the second eggs. No doubt, after she has laid the first egg,she hurries the other along and lays it as soon after the firstas she can, and it takes forty-eight hours for the egg, completein its wonderful construction, to form. Hen pigeons in a ship-ping crate or close coop do not lay eggs, because they knowthat there are no facilities there for raising young. Once ina while you will find an egg in a shipping crate when thebirds are taken out, but it is a comparatively rare occurrence. Of course
The national standard squab book . EGGS IN THE NEST,. SQUABS JUST HATCHED. 64 LAYING AND HATCHING 65 the second eggs. No doubt, after she has laid the first egg,she hurries the other along and lays it as soon after the firstas she can, and it takes forty-eight hours for the egg, completein its wonderful construction, to form. Hen pigeons in a ship-ping crate or close coop do not lay eggs, because they knowthat there are no facilities there for raising young. Once ina while you will find an egg in a shipping crate when thebirds are taken out, but it is a comparatively rare occurrence. Of course, in order to lay a fertile egg, the hen pigeonmust have received the attention of the cock bird. It iscommon for a hen pigeon at five months, and sometimesfour, to lay an egg, but as a rule those first eggs from a younghen are not fertile because she has not yet mated with thecock bird. After a hen pigeon has reached six months of age,and is paired with a male, it is safe to assume as an almostinvariable rule that the eggs she lays will be fertile.
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