At 
present, there is no known early to determine the sex of the specimens not adults, although in certain cases, there are fans that determine sex, perhaps more geared for their insights, which because of its age.
An efficient procedure is to wait for 5 or 6 months, longer sexual dimorphism is evident, leading to the commissioning by the female.
Sometimes we find one or more young pigeons, which by accident or lack of foresight, not hand-feed them die. Deficiencies can be rickets, bone deformity, loss of character, etc…
COMPONENTS FOR HAND – REARING: Among the tools that will prepare: a bottle, multivitamin, whey powder (sodium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and glucose), ultralevura lyophilized powder gray if possible mineralized and finally the staple food, breast milk or feed chickens for fattening (cylindrical).