feedding young guns

hi all ... i know its a oz each bird .. im feedding beans still to y/b and i let them out for hour on morrning then i call them in no problems then i feed them pound of food then tea time there out for a hour then in and i feed them again .. but there is a few young gun that seem to wait to last to come in could i be feeding to much or am i doing it right ...there is 21 in the 8x6 section

Young uns are kids they will play u up, a couple of missed meals and they will fall in line with the rest

phil, ive found i have to keep them a bit hungry so as to keep cotrol over them......if they refuse to come in after exercise it not only puts you the fancier out but also it puts themselves at risk of predetors ie cats hawks etc....i feed one third of their daily rations after morning exercise, then the other two thirds at evening meal.......

i feed 1oz versell laga diet 1000 with added maple peas at 3-30pm, in morning depends on how birds come in , bad they get nothing only happened once, 1 quarter oz trappers with maple peas

how many times a day do you guys let your birds out?what do you do when you are at work?is it nessessary to let them out every day?

Phil ifthe young guns are messing about then cut there feed, but if they are called in the ones that come in get feed the ones that please themself miss there feed, after a few missed feeds they soon come in nomessing

But always let the ones that mess about miss there feed, as soon as you call them the next night they are the first ones in and keep to it until they know if they don't come in they miss there feed (hungar can play wounders)

Yes got to agree with ken here, miss a couple of meals and they soon get the message. When the others come in phil, wait til they have had a fill and remove all food, the ones left out get nought. tomorrow or the next day after its happened to them a few times they will be first in. Secondly get your food in a tin the same amount you always give them, stick your hand in and take a big fist full of food out and put it back in the corn bin , that will sharpen them all up.

Spot on there Martyn

thanxs all very good info ...

All here to help mate

my y/bs learnt yesterday missed a meal straight in today

thats right steve show them who,s boss ,

did same when i got home gave wife a kick in rear

bet you did , probably the other way round

she was bent over i kicked and ran

mmmm