advice on breeding

have a pr of birds on 2 eggs atm....now due to this being my first time breeding pigeons,providing the eggs are fertile and they would hatch...is there any specific seed or eggfood i need to provide....i do have pigeon eggfood here,because i used to use it for my finches when they were rearing young.
any advice would be grateful..thanks in advance.

hi birdlady, make sure you have grit available to your birds, i also give pink minerals too........

the type of grit mix i use is called matrix which has alsorts of minerals, small conditioning seeds, brewers yeast and also aniseed...the pigeons love it but its quite expensive being 10 pound per 5kg tub.

dont be confused with have grit and mineral at all times take it out when treating

i use hormoform when breeding and gem the pax all year round but the intake of gem the pax is increased though when breeding

i have been using THE MATRIX for along time...all birds seem to love it..
i do have grit available to them at all times,and am waiting on a new bottle of gem arriving..
so apart from this,there is nothing else i need do???

i always put a egg cup full of dried sea weed in with my grit but this is changed on a daily basis matrix is good but you cant leave it down as the birds gorge on it also i dont find theirs enough oyster shell present within it i do use it but only as a treat i mix my own grit redstone oyster shell clay block and sea weed the redstone already has charcoal mixed in it

hi birdlady, im led to beleive the fancy breeds need small seed mixes because of the short beaks........is there also a special breeding mix ? i have used pellets in the past for pigeons feeding ybs and have bred some big healthy ybs.......

versa laga have a mix called fancy mix really nice corn for fancy birds

i am using a versa lagge mix atm....its called small bean an wean...loads of smaller seeds in it....so id think it will probably be ok.
i wont worry to much if the eggs dont hatch..i know its a bit late in the yr...but the guy i got them from only took 1 round from them this yr,which is why i let them breed...if they hatch i will be quite happy,as then i have extra birds to work with next yr.

thanks

hope they do hatch for you b/lady, maybe a photo of them if you could..........

Birdlady if you intend to show your birds it would not be advisable to let them bring up young birds at the moment, I no you have just started with show birds but its only a couple months now befor you will be able to get your rings I think its worth waiting for them to come.

i had thought about showing one or two birds this yr....but on thinking about it..i always in the past prefared to show something i had managed to breed myself,rather than bought.i will probably (if i can ever actually find a club) just go and look,see how things are done...been a long time since i was at a pigeon show..
over 30 yrs. so i will just go check out the standard of birds that are being exibited..and try to make some contacts over here.there is a big sales day in the next 2wks..so should be able to make a few contacts at that.

hope you have a good day out b/lady and make some new contacts etc........we will be holding our annual winer shows soon so maybe you will have birds to enter here on site (photos)