I have two adult pigeons, rollers. Their first set of babies are about 2 months old and they just hatched another egg 2 days ago. I did have them all together, was going to seperate them when the eggs were laid but didn't b/c the young ones were helping sit on the eggs. Now I've just separated them tonight b/c when I went to feed them the daddy had pecked the heck outa the young boy's head, the back of it, made him completely raw and bloody. I feel so bad. So I took both the youngsters out of the cage and put them in a temporary one till we get another built. If anyone with some experience with pigeons could explain to me why this happened, I'd really appreciate it. The cage they're in is homemade, about 18" by 4' by 2' tall, with a nesting box attached (2'Hx2'Wx18"D). Maybe they just don't have enough room (which was why I was going to separate them in the first place). And a related question: Can they live happily with the chickens, free-flying in the coop, maybe if they had a dedicated nesting box that was up high with an entrance the chickens couldn't fit through? Thanks for letting me pick your brains!! lol