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Do doves give milk to their young?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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No. Doves are birds, and birds do not provide milk for their young.

Some birds are fed on special secretions from the parent birds' crop, and these may even be called crop milk, but it is not milk in the true sense of the word. Birds which feed their young with "crop milk" include pigeons, doves and flamingos.

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No. Birds have no delivery system with which to nourish their young. Some birds, do, however, regurgitate the contents of their stomachs. Otherwise adult birds feed hatchlings food by passing morsels from beak to beak.

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Yes, they suckle just like all other mammal babies.

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ANSWER:Baby chicks aren't breast fed. They are usually regurgitated (fed chewed up insects) by their parents.
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Yes, they "Suckle' their mother

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Birds do not provide milk for their young. Some birds are fed on special secretions from the parent birds' crop, and these may even be called crop milk, but it is not milk in the true sense of the word. Birds which feed their young with "crop milk" include pigeons, doves and flamingos.


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