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  • No pigeons produce milk, only mammals produce milk and a pigeon is a bird.
  • Both male and female pigeons produces pigon milk Read what Wikipedioa has to say>> Crop milk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article or section does not cite its references or sources. You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Crop milk, also known as pigeon's milk, is a secretion from the lining of the crop of pigeons with which the parents feed their young by regurgitation. Crop milk is produced by most doves, most notably, the common mourning dove. Crop milk bears little resemblance to mammalian milk, being a semi-solid substance somewhat like pale yellow cottage cheese. It is extremely high in protein and fat and is considered to be one of the richest nutritive substances known. Both male and female adult birds produce crop milk and share in the feeding and care of the young. Pigeon's milk begins to be produced a couple of days before the eggs are due to hatch. The parents may cease to eat at this point in order to be able to provide the chicks with milk uncontaminated by seeds, which the very young chicks would be unable to digest. The chicks are fed on pure crop milk for the first week or so of life. After this the parents begin to introduce a proportion of adult food, softened by spending time in the moist conditions of the adult crop, into the mix fed to the chicks, until by the end of the second week they are being fed entirely on softened adult food. Pigeons normally lay two eggs. If one egg fails to hatch, the surviving chick gets the advantage of a supply of crop milk sufficient for two chicks, and by the end of the first week it is almost as big as two "normal" chicks would be. The very high nutrient concentration of pigeon's milk makes it difficult to devise an artificial substitute for hand-rearing chicks. Various proprietary mixes are available. A good home-made mix can be made from equal quantities of rehydrated dried pure soya protein (with no added salt, flavourings, preservatives etc.) and soya-based dairy-free butter substitute (ordinary dairy butter is not suitable, as young pigeons' digestive systems cannot cope with dairy products) made into a runny paste with a little water, with a tiny crumb of a multivitamin tablet and a tiny pinch of chalk added (the chalk is necessary for bone development to avoid splay leg). The crop should be allowed to empty completely between feedings. With care and gentleness, it is possible to raise a pigeon on this mix from the moment of hatching
  • Pigeons produce milk?
  • That's a negatory. They aren't mammals
  • Yes, both sexes produce what is called "crop milk" for the squabs. The milk is produced by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of their crop. Crop milk is extremely nutritious and contains more protein and fat than does cow or human milk. It is the only food fed for several days after hatching and continued for more than two weeks. The young pigeons are not fed insects as are the chicks of many seed-eating birds, so instead, the crop milk provides the critical protein they need.

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