Baby Diamond Dove asks to be fed

A baby Diamond Dove is known as a squab.

A squab leaves the nest before it can feed itself. It doesn’t choose to leave the nest by choice but is forced to do so by its parents. The parents will simply stop feeding it, and sit nearby until it leaves. In effect, hunger forces it to leave the nest.

When the little squab spots a parent, it starts to vibrate its wings. This is the equivalent in dove-language of a baby human screaming for food.

Diamond Doves are very gentle little birds from squab to adult.

The Farm at 64 raises money for the charity Porridge and Rice, an education charity supporting education in the slums of Nairobi, home to some of the poorest people in the world. They charity website is http://www.porridgeandrice.com/.

The Farm at 64 is not a business, just the name that my children have given to the many pets that I keep. The Farm at 64 website is http://www.thefarmat64.co.uk/.