Good corn, clean water

This is what you want to see on a morning when you're first entering the loft, sign all is well. Hope it doesn't put you off your cornflakes..........

Good sign of good health.

However, this can be gained without good corn ( if you mean polished) and without CLEAN water.

To me there are two ways of keeping our feathered friends, ROBOTIC, or NATURAL.

I can assure you my pigeons were never subject to Robotic methods, they had water from the pond with garlic added, and fed numerous different feed and had complete open loft.

Never any health problems and did all I asked of them and rarely let me down.

If it works for you, good, but I always put the pigeons first as they depended on me for there welfare.

Regards.

nice droppings you got there colin, what are you feeding them on, and is it plain, fresh water daily .....with nothing added ?

Looks good Barnie, healthy Poo.
I’ve made the decision this season to only give the birds garlic and cider vinegar in the water. No other potions.
I’ve used Ropa B, products for about 3 years and have been very pleased with them, everyone at the club and Combine always comment on how healthy the birds look, but it’s a bit pricey. and when this last bottle runs out, that’s the lot.
In this current climate, I can’t justify paying out that much on the birds.
When I was a kid I only used garlic and brewers yeast and I won much more then than I do now.

its what i like to see....we use ropa and allways have/will ,its stops the need to treat for anything and tbh birds should never be unwell if not mixing with others in the race basket...its the ybs that need keeping an eye on when they start racing ,never had a problem here since 2012 season when we had a bad bout of sickness after a 1 day holdover with the ybs in fact they were brought back to the club the weather was that bad ,alot had problems after this little outing since then we started using ropa and never had a problem since ,each to his own but theres a few products out there that are beneficial jmo though besides garlic is a supplement in itself and maybe algae is too,we use seaweed ,cider vinegar is a pre-biotic of some sorts so when you really look we are all dabbling in something on the supplement issue atb

David wrote:

nice droppings you got there colin, what are you feeding them on, and is it plain, fresh water daily .....with nothing added  ?

David, it's just a regular race mix with no wheat or beans in it, £10 a bag, not a fan of wheat especially. Small handful of canary seed added on a morning. Light feed am much as they want @6pm.
Water straight out the tap, nothing added, only a smallish modest garden, no pond unfortunately.

barnie wrote:

David wrote:

nice droppings you got there colin, what are you feeding them on, and is it plain, fresh water daily .....with nothing added  ?

David, it's just a regular race mix with no wheat or beans in it, £10 a bag, not a fan of wheat especially.  Small handful of canary seed added on a morning. Light feed am much as they want @6pm.
Water straight out the tap, nothing added, only a smallish modest garden, no pond unfortunately.

Wheats just like chocolates etc Barnie I suggest. Small portions are OK on a daily type basis but eat more than one should & certain problems may just occur, maybe .

They're doing ok, hard to believe this time last week they were running about squeaking on the shed floor, 3 of them already been up for a short flit about this morning          

barnie wrote:

They're doing ok, hard to believe this time last week they were running about squeaking on the shed floor, 3 of them already been up for a short flit about this morning          

Joyful time etc Barnie when at that stage I suggest . First time thou, the just disappear into the sunset as such could maybe change the equation, possibly . Cheers & take care.

Nice neat set up barnie.

Just hope the pigeons get the chance to perform.

Regards.

looking nice colin, birds have really come on since we last saw them ......looking healthy and alert .

David wrote:

looking nice colin, birds have really come on since we last saw them ......looking healthy and alert .

True intrigued thou David       with that little platform Barnie built there at the front door etc .

Knackered wrote:

David wrote:

looking nice colin, birds have really come on since we last saw them ......looking healthy and alert .

True intrigued thou David       with that little platform Barnie built there at the front door etc .

It's for the bath knackered, for the squeakers not able to get up off the grass, especially if feathers wet.

barnie wrote:

Knackered wrote:

David wrote:

looking nice colin, birds have really come on since we last saw them ......looking healthy and alert .

True intrigued thou David       with that little platform Barnie built there at the front door etc .

It's for the bath knackered, for the squeakers not able to get up off the grass, especially if feathers wet.

One step too far etc Barnie maybe    .