blue salt for pigeons

David wrote:

used to use garlic a few years ago, crushed a clove and put it in the drinker......  i would change the water daily but leave the clove in, i did hear some would simply top the water up each day, never did find out which was the best way .

i know someone who leaves cloves in a bottle and adds a few spoonful's each day to the water , not sure its the best way but each to their own i suppose .

I topped the water up, but changed it completely every week.

Never thought of the bottle idea sounds alright to me.

I never washed the drinkers, same with the canaries.

Green they were, fanciers thought daft, they had to treat theirs every week mine never needed any.

If you  look at the photo of the canaries,top left hand corner you can see the drinker high up looks filthy, then look at the conditions of the canaries.

Regards.

i don't see a photo misty

George & Morgan wrote:

i don't see a photo misty

Was amongst those David posted for me a while back, can get them if you go through the past photos.

Regards.

think it was posted in the 70s or 80s David

George & Morgan wrote:

think it was posted in the  70s or 80s David  

Takes two minutes to find them.

Not too long ago.

Regards.

MISTY wrote:

George & Morgan wrote:

i don't see a photo misty

Was amongst those David posted for me a while back, can get them if you go through the past photos.

Regards.

wow, sorry misty ..........

i forgot all about those photos misty, i still have them here in the drawer ...... ill check i still have you address to send them back

MISTY wrote:

David wrote:

used to use garlic a few years ago, crushed a clove and put it in the drinker......  i would change the water daily but leave the clove in, i did hear some would simply top the water up each day, never did find out which was the best way .

i know someone who leaves cloves in a bottle and adds a few spoonful's each day to the water , not sure its the best way but each to their own i suppose .

I topped the water up, but changed it completely every week.

Never thought of the bottle idea sounds alright to me.

I never washed the drinkers, same with the canaries.

Green they were, fanciers thought daft, they had to treat theirs every week mine never needed any.

If you  look at the photo of the canaries,top left hand corner you can see the drinker high up looks filthy, then look at the conditions of the canaries.

Regards.

Spirulina process somehow comes to mind here Misty with me with your general thinking/thing on your water issue with your birds. Bit of a laugh when one thinks about it all in how maybe the local town brigade of scrubbers & the like would drink at times to just survive. End of the day my race birds every week get a nice clean bath to wash & drink from, what do they do thou most days, fight like hell I'm to be first into the native bird baths here my Joyce fills up whenever she maybe remembers type thing.

David wrote:

MISTY wrote:

George & Morgan wrote:

i don't see a photo misty

Was amongst those David posted for me a while back, can get them if you go through the past photos.

Regards.

wow, sorry misty  ..........

i forgot all about those photos misty, i still have them here in the drawer ...... ill check i still have you address to send them back

No worries David, perhaps you could just post the canary one for our George.

Regards.

nice photos misty birds do look well nice basket like the top

David wrote:

One of the joys of life I say seeing a typical type craftsman built pigeon loft etc Good for the soul I always found somehow, thankfully  Wonderful photos all round I suggest as shown above. So thanks everyone, as very much appreciated down here at my end    .

First photo months after my clearance sale, went to pot when my wife died, never bothered with anything for months other than feeding sooty and the odd pigeons that returned, just could not do anything.

There is a photograph in the BHW of my loft before this happened.

Second time round never had stock pigeons and the main loft is still standing.

Did keep the canaries.

Did away with the lofts which had the stock birds in shown in the first
Photograph of the pigeons on the trap was second time round 16ft loft to the right of the trap not shown, but will do so if and when I master putting photos on.

The dirty drinker in the canary photo is in the high left hand corner.

Top of basket lime George used for strays.

Regards.

is that a bronze pigeon in the trap misty,i like the cheq pied hen on the trap to ...

oldstrain wrote:

is that a bronze pigeon in the trap misty,i like the cheq pied hen on the trap ..

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Would call them light chocolate oldstrain, brother to the one just inside
the trap, which was always open other than on race day or when too light early in summer.

The pied hen won from being a youngster, including the only time I entered the ring nom.

They were typical of all my pigeons.

Threw some odd colours at times.

Had two strawberry youngster once and one was a good un.

Where colours come from I know not only that two true blues will only breed blues.

Bill Carney liked all my pigeons, never condemned one and that was one I had just bought, which I culled.

Think mine were overall above medium sized, never liked the small sprint type.

But mine won from every race point, from Lerwick North to Bourges South.

Could not have asked for more, gave them a life I would have liked were I a pigeon and was repaid well.

Regards.

MISTY wrote:

oldstrain wrote:

is that a bronze pigeon in the trap misty,i like the cheq pied hen on the trap ..

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Would call them  light chocolate oldstrain, brother to the one just inside
the  trap, which was always open other than on race day or when too light early in summer.

The pied hen won from being a youngster, including the only time I entered the ring nom.

They were typical of all my pigeons.

Threw some odd colours at times.

Had two strawberry youngster once and one was a good un.

Where colours come from I know not only that two true blues will only breed blues.

Bill Carney liked all my pigeons, never condemned one and that was one I had just bought, which I culled.

Think mine were overall  above medium sized, never liked the small sprint type.

But mine won from every race point, from Lerwick North to Bourges South.

Could not have asked for more, gave them a life I would have liked were I a pigeon and was repaid well.

Regards.

 

 

Pleasing thing for me here Misty was your modern type loft design as shown appears to have had no effect what so ever apparently on the bloom factor of your birds etc. If one was a bold & brave type or perhaps even stupid perhaps      One could say perhaps the hard work with your design of your loft there was apparently a blessing in disguise in a bloom sense with your birds    .

we had some dark chequers that had a bronze tinge to them, they were van hee`s from louella

David wrote:

we had some dark chequers that had a bronze tinge to them, they were van hee`s from louella

Maybe I should have said bonze David but looked brownish to me.

Had many different colours made breeding far more enjoyable and exciting.

Liked my pieds best for colour.

Regards.

only ever  had one red bird in my racers

this was him with his hen i bought

George & Morgan wrote:

this was him with his hen i bought

Now we are talking George the red is my type of pigeon in build and size.

Regards.

son off a midlands national winner

is this the red cock you bought years ago george, or is it a different one ...?

same one David

wow, yes i remember you buying it ..........