But for William cook- are there no young pigeons?
As confident flyers, the young pigeons are taken on progressively longer 'training tosses', driven a distance away from their home and released.
The reason is that young pigeons do not come out of their nests until they are nearly full grown.
In culinary terminology, squab is a young domestic pigeon or its meat.
Domestic Pigeons were kept to provide squabs, a luxury food from the breast meat of young pigeons.
Parents feed the young pigeon's milk, a nutrient rich substance regurgitated from its crop.
Effects of a "permanent" clock-shift on the orientation of young homing pigeons.
In months of laborious work he trained young pigeons to return to the dovecote even after it was displaced.
Under the watchful eye of the mother, the young pigeons (one completely brown by now) began to make tentative little lift-offs from the ledge.
He makes it his trade to meet new arrivals from England - weak-brained young pigeons with money.