Decisions, decisions
June 11th, 2007 Posted in DoveWatch
Is it okay to clean out nestboxes and what should I do with any unhatched eggs?
You can clean nestboxes outside the bird breeding season, between 1 August and 31 January. We recommend you do it in October or November.
It is illegal to keep any unhatched eggs. If there are unhatched eggs in the box, you can legally remove these between 1 August and 31 January, and you must throw them away.
This could cause me a slight problem. If I wait until August, it’ll probably be after my doves will have been looking for a nest for the second brood. If I leave the egg there, they may not return to the nest and if I remove the egg before 1st August I may be send to jail.
Decisions, decisions.
June 13th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Blame the disappearance on maurading squirrels.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Eh? Why must you throw them away? What if you wanted to keep them for ornaments on your mantelpiece or something? What a pile of pish that “rule” is! Just because you have birds’ eggs on your mantelpiece, doesn’t mean you’ve stolen them from a nest or that they would have hatched if you hadn’t nicked them. That’s just daft!