Pink minerals.....?

does anyone use pink minerals and what do they think the importance of it is for conditioning pigeons.......? good or not important ?

Hi David, Although I give my birds pink, black and mineral blocks and grit, to the birds fresh every day. It is my opinion that birds that are healthy dont use them, grit however they always eat daily and this is important for different reasons, but going back to minerals its only lacking birds that take them in my opinion. This is born out this season so far as I have had an excellant hatch with my birds never looking better, and they are hardly touching the minerals, but as the season wears on and the stock birds are on second round they mop the minerals up as its replaced.

ah right, so do you think they are an important suppliment or dont you think theres much need for it if they are kept fit and healthy .....?

To be honest david I dont have an answer to that quetion for sure. Today I have had a day with the birds all cleaned out spik and span, when I gave fresh grit and minerals they all went for the grit, and out of 65 birds I think I saw 4 pick at the minerals for a couple of seconds. I really do think that when all is well they dont eat it, and dont need it, but thats me I do however give it to them anyway. I would say if pushed for an answer as long as you have grit on offer like matrix which does seem to contain a varied mixture, then you could not give minerals at all with no ill effects.

mine get the pink and the black every day and matrix twice a week is it me or do the birds go mad for the matrix ???

i give matrix every day at a rate of a teaspoon per pair of birds, fed to them in their box............apart from honey and cider vinegar i dont give them anything else, including vitamins etc.

i put vit twice a week in the water

i just like to use honey now rene, i think its as good as anything and its also fairly inexpensive too.......

mine always have matrix really rate the stuff birds love it and it has everything they need in there. the matrix has the pink minerals in it but i do add pink minerals to the corn aswell

i swear by pink minerals when breeding only............never used at any other time of year, not used black minerals in years.

Matrix is expensive, basically grit, pink minerals and trapping seen mixed together imo

do you use hormoform atall mark. if you do what do you think of it

i use vita alex and hormoform with cocks

yes mate, love homoform again when rearing, once they get the taste for it they love it..........only downside is it takes weeks to get it off the feathering esecially any pieds

i love to give the birds as much as possible when they are rearing

so do you think it is a benefit to the ybs mark, does it rear good ybs ? do you think it is better thqan pellets etc?

yes mate, very oily good for feather growth.......only downside is so damn expensive

ah right, never used it myself but have been feeding a neighbours birds for him while hes away and been putting some in a pot on the floor.........the birds seem to love it but i didnt know if it was any good as i usually use pellets.

Thanks jason and mark have ben giving mine hormoform but nice to hear that top flyers use it as im not wasting my money because it must be good for experienced flyers to be using it.

how much is it alex, and what size is the bag.....?

2kg - £7 odd quid
5kg - £13 odd quid
20kg - £44

use 3ounces to 450g of food for breeders

ah right, so do you mix it with their food and not in pots on the floor.....?

put it in the pot on the floor david but to be honest i seem to use alot more than 3 ounces in comparison to the corn but yes do it however you want fill a pot up daily or mix with corn....in the stock loft they get it in a pot....but the parents in the other loft get it mixed with there corn in their nestboxes.

do they eat it all when mixed with the corn.....?

yes all goes david in the pots and with the food....

my reply before was a bit vauge looking back lol will try again...

when i put it in a pot on the floor, i seem to want to keep it full, that way im using alot more than they should have.....

3ounces in with 450g of corn is a bit more measured, so that way, the birds are getting the exact amount and im just not giving them it for the sake of it.

But the stock get it in a pot, the others get it in there nest box just mix it up and fill there individual pots

right, think i`ll try it next season as its too late now..........when i give it to those birds im looking after they eat two pots full per day and its all gone the next morning when i go round to feed them..........