Garvo Mixes

Hi all as anyone used the garvo mixes this year for\racing if so what did you think of them are they any better or worse than other mixes on the market ???
Ken

never used them ken what are they

Last weeks BHW full page advert for the new mixes sprint , marathon, moulting and resting, but no young bird mix
Ken

strange

hi ken, just got some verselle lager ????? (dont remember how its spelled...lol) moulting mix yesterday, their is all sorts of different seeds in it ans also seems to be some man made vegitable pellets.....type things. looks a good mix and was only £11.90

Thanks David, i have used v/l in the past, then changed to the teurling mixes which i cannot get now, this to me was the best on the market
Ken

hi ken, im sure i saw the teurling corn advertised in the racing pigeon weekly a few months ago.....not posative but ill have a look and see.

Yes u can still get it , but the local stockist to me no longer stock teurlings
Ken

oh right, so are you happy or not with the corn you have been using during racing this season ?

Not really, just have to keep looking and hope i find something soon
Ken

ken, i took a trip to a place at wakefield called crowthers, they had a wharehouse full of any corn you could think of and everything for pigeons......i could have spent all day there looking around, i know its a long way from you but i know they do deliveries all over the country if they had what you wanted....?

address for them is www.crowthersofwakefield.com
could be worth having a look at their site......

Thanks David i will have a look
Ken

ken, i got a big sack of floor whitener for £9 and its lasted me months already....it will probably last me a year, lol i also got some of that matrix mix which is grit, minerals, aniseed etc, etc which the birds love and it was cheeper than the local corn man......its about a 20 min drive from my house but when i start racing next season im hoping to get a big supply of corn to last me the full yb season then i wont be giving different corn every time.

once you have found the corn which suits ur birds stick to it, so if you have the storage to hold the corn for the season it sounds a good idea, that loft whitner sounds a good buy, the one i get is 6.95 for a tub
Ken

yes ken, i think if i can get a good supply of the same corn it would be better, then i dont run the risk of going for new corn when i run out and it being different ....like so many times i have before.
is the whitener harkers you get for £6.85 ? if it is ive seen it before.....is it the one with a disinfectant type ingredient ? this which i get is verselle laga (spelling) and its great stuff for the price, i usually buy it in smaller bags from my local and it is about £3 + a bag and only lasts about a month.....as you know i clean out every day so im well pleased with the £9 bag.

Yes David it is the Harkers i get, i think its the scent i like about it lol
Ken

youll be getting high on it ken.........lol mind you, every time i feed up on the evening feed as i sit on my bucket watching them peck about i always fall asleep, i must be there sat in the loft asleep for a good half hour and when i wake up the ybs are all sat on my head and arms etc......

dont know why, but this year for some reason my ybs seem tamer than last year.....dont know why but the only difference is ive got more ? wonder if this would make any difference ? cant see it but dont know what else it could be, ive always sat in with the ybs so thats nothing different.....so i dont know.

maybe its the peanuts or didnt you use them

hi ian, didnt use them......look at them every day when i go into the garage for corn but just dont bother.... when im sat with them they are all over me sat on my knees and arms, and some sit on my head.....one s**t on me the other day.....lol. i play with them touching them with my hands and they peck around on my fingers but dont seem scared at all, so as i say, i cant understand why they are like this.

Sp[ending time with them quitely as you say u fall asleep half the time LOL so no sudden movements, the birds have got used to u being there, just carry on doing what ur doing when you move them over to the race section, Ken

hi ken, i think ill take my bed in there soon...lol i bred 2 latebreds off the same pair as the 2 which raced well for you and they were only parted about 10 days ago and already the cock is taking over the section, fighting all the older cocks which are moulted out......its mental.

Ken