"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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Hi
My wife wants to know how long do they live and how often they mate
and rear
their chicks each year

Most pigeons lay only two eggs at a time, which produce one male and
one female chick. Because the chicks are fed on regurgitated parental
stomach contents (called "pigeon milk") they mature incredibly fast and
the parents can lay a new brood of 2 every 6 weeks. This is why doocots
used to be a very popular source of all-year meat.

As to how often they mate; IME (from keeping them), males think of
little else but sex, all year round.

Don't we all!(:-)

Alan


Janet.