FEMALE pigeon, being oviparous lays two eggs in a rough NEST. The eggs are incubated by both PARENTS for 14 days at a temperature of to after which the youngs called squabs hatch by breaking the shell with a caruncle. The squabs are altricial being naked and UNABLE to fend for themselves. They are fed for a time of the parents on pigeon milk formed by the lining of the crop.