If you are keeping your toy doves with smaller finches, Australian finches or waxbills, for example, for the sake of convenience, feed them all the same mix. If the doves are being housed with larger, more robust finches, like Java Rice Birds, Whydahs, or Weavers, all in the aviary will enjoy the variety of the two seed mixes. As a supplement, pellets for finches and parakeets can also be used Greens, fruits, high-protein nestling foods, and live foods can be offered to the above species. In most cases, the birds will ignore everything but seed. These species will thrive and rear their young on plain seed diets.
All seed eating birds require grit to help digest their food and to provide minerals.
This is particularly true of the seed-eating doves, for these birds swallow all grains whole. They don't hull the seed, remove the outer, indigestable part, as do most cage birds. The seeds go to the bird's crop, or gizzard. There in the crop, with the help of the sand and gravel in the grit, the seeds are ground into a digestible mash. Grit also contains calcium and trace minerals, to ensure that the diet is balanced.