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PROFITABLE PIGEON BREEDING 



liis desire for her to go to their nest. Tlie cock will be heard to 

 Axake a i-ooing sound to her and presently they start carrying 

 nesting nialerial up to the nest piece l)y piece until the nest 

 is coniplcti^d. The cock is most usually the one that carries 

 Ihe nesting material. The hen then lays an egg and skips a 

 da\ liefore she lays another. Pigeons lay only two eggs before 

 tl'e\- liegin to set on them or inculjate them. From the time she 

 lays the first egg Ijotli cock and hen sliare in incubating the 



("AUNEALi SQL'Ar;S .\T THREE WEEKS ANIJ EOL'R WEEK8 OF AOE 



WHION THEV ARE RE.\DY FOR MARKET 



I'lioto from Lungwood Squab Fiir-m, Lungwood, Fla. 



eggs, tlie cock going on duty aliout ten o'clock in the morning 

 and renuiiniiig on the eggs until about four o'clock in the 

 afternoon. The lien then goes on the nest and covers the eggs 

 until the ne.\t morning at ten o'clock. Tlu^y alternate in this 

 manner lor a period of seventeen days, at the expiration of 

 which time the eggs will hatch, one egg invariably hatching 

 before the other one. For this reason one squab is almost al- 

 ways a little larger than the other, and of course the first one 



