Diamond Doves, advice for sexing needed

[dannyelle2910]

Hi all! This is my first post here and I would like to first greet everyone! I am the proud owner of 3 beautiful diamond doves and am now in a bit of a dilemma. I would like to describe a bit the situation before asking the most important question I bought my first 2 diamond doves 6 months ago as a couple. After about 2 months of thinking they were male and female one of them attacked the other after the male (Mylo) bow cooed the other dove. And it kept getting worse, the other dove chased him in the whole cage and I was forced to separate them. I started to believe that I have two males, though the cere (ring around the eyes) from the dove I thought was a female was smaller that Mylo's, but just as red. I decided it's best to keep them apart and believe the other one was a boy.. and renamed him Sony For my birthday I received a female dove (Bell) from my boyfriend from a breeder and put her with Mylo as he wasn't aggressive. In the mean time I got them a bigger cage (80cmx40cmx50cm) and put all three of them in the cage. Sony began attacking them instantly but Mylo defended himself. About a week ago Bell and Mylo bonded and started courtship, snuggling, nest building, mating, all the process of bonding, which made them aggressive towards Sony and I was forced to separate him in the old cage again. The pair that I have are the most adorable thing in the world, but I feel sad about Sony, as he calls them and wants back with them. I want to make him happy by getting him a mate.. but I am not 100% sure if he really is a boy and his aggressive side scares me. I want to add that he is not as vocal as Mylo, never bow cooed, has a pitcher voice, but is very aggressive. I attached some pictures of my birds so you can also have an image of them. What are your opinions? Any advice would be very welcomed! Thank you!



This is Mylo, the male that bonded to Bell the female I received



Bell the female



This is Sony that I am unsure what gender he is

[Kerry C]

Well if you are going to breed ANY birds you NEVER have odd numbers in the cage! Perfect way to start WWIII and get somone killed. Males have more flesh in the eye rings.