On 2013-09-07 09:03:43 +0100, David Hill said:


All pigeon babies look big quite quickly once their feathers have grown.
The parents will feed them for 4 weeks at least (in or out of the nest),
wood pigeons are very good parents.
I'm guessing that yours are around 3 weeks old and will fledge very soon.


Just right for the pot.
Squabs; or milk fed pigeons were a delicacy

There is one lovely old colombier left in Jersey at Samares Manor and
there is another near here on a farm that used to be long to the family
of one of the Nursery team. They're things of real beauty, imo. They
were a sort of larder for the houses they belonged to, and as you say,
squabs were a dish for the master's table!
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Sacha
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