pigeon milk

How to use pigeon milk in a sentence

• They are fed by the parents with pigeon milk, which is simply the usual food of the old birds softened in the crop.

  Our Domestic Birds | John H. Robinson

• The so-called pigeon milk varies according to the size of squabs and later contains whole grains and water.

  Raising P.V. Squabs for Profit | John S. Trecartin

• "pigeon milk" is injected into their open throats by the parent birds, in whose stomachs it has been manufactured.

  The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work | Mary Rogers Miller

• They are kept stuffed full of "pigeon milk" and on this they seem to grow while one watches them.

  Profitable Squab Breeding | Carl Dare