Commentary for Kiddushin 160:1

נקורים נקורים בעיסה תולין לא אוכלין ולא שורפין

all over the dough,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Made by the fowls' beaks.');">¹</span> the matter is in suspense: it may neither be eaten [as clean] nor burnt [as unclean].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If it is terumah. This suspense is because the fowls may have drunk the fluid, and then picked at the dough with the liquid still dripping on their beaks. Since this and the case of the child are bracketed together, it follows that there too the matter is in suspense, which agrees with R. Johanan.');">²</span> R'Joshua B'Levi said: We learnt this only of white [i.e., colourless] liquid; but as for red liquid, had i fowl] picked at the dough,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With a dripping beak.');">³</span>

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