Hi to all of my fellow fanciers. First of all, please excuse my English, I am a French Fancier.
I would love to share with you, my methods of feeding over the year. I have quote different feeding practices for each season.
The first thing you should know is that I grit my loft often and throughout the year. Without fail! I always grit the loft. I do grit more during the breeding times. I always mix with rock salt and some vitamin minerals too. It is so important to keep your loft gritted in my opinion as it helps the birds to digest their foods properly. A trick my father used to use is to smash up old oyster shells and add them to the grit; this means the pigeons can take the calcium and other vitamins from the shells when they eat the grit.
Before I get into my methods, I will also say that every two weeks I add a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda to 2 litres of water. This acts as a mild ant-acid and helps to keep the pigeons healthy.
Right, now onto my feeding methods.
Through the winter period, I feed the birds well. They will usually get
- 20% Beans
- 20% Maize
- 20% Wheat
- 30% Barley
- 5% Oats
- 5% Sunflower Seeds.
During spring, in the pairing up/breeding time they will get.
- 25% Beans
- 5% Peas
- 10% Linseed
- 20% Maize
- 20% Wheat
- 5% Barley
- 5% Sunflower Seeds
- 5% Rapeseed
- 5% Hempseed
During Racing season and throughout summer I will feed
- 10% Beans
- 10% Peas
- 10% Tares
- 5% Linseed
- 20% Maize
- 20% Wheat
- 5% Indian Millet
- 5% Sunflower Seeds
- 5% Rapeseed
- 5% Hempseed
- 5% White Dari
And then in the moulting period of autumn I use:
- 20% Beans
- 5% Peas
- 5% Linseed
- 25% Maize
- 20% Wheat
- 10% Sunflower Seeds
- 5% Rapeseed
- 5% Hempseed
- 5% White Dari
Obviously this is a rough guide and it suits MY birds. Not all fanciers will agree with me here, and I am sure we all have very different methods of feeding at different times of the year – but this is my idea of good feeding.
I hope this helps you out, especially the younger or more inexperienced fanciers.
Thanks,
The Joker
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