leaving Maize

hi bit of advice please been training twice a day 1 short chuck 6 miles 1 longer chuck 20 miles birds have had 50 plus chucks in total all weathers apart from really nasty stuff past few days been leaving the maize especially the big plate maize im using marrimans vari mix and a third barley feeding quite tight 32 grammes a bird aint had this b4 when i raced well i didnt notice it any ideas

Well first of all if you want my advice stop training as I think they have had enough by the sonds of it .....I wouldnt feed by weight I would feed by eye as the birds are getting too much food I would cut it down that way they will mop it all up.Birds only leave food when they are not hungry anymore, maize is especially good for birds so I would save it if they leave it and next feed give that to them first before they get anything more.

i use a rough guide at this stage of 1 oz (28gram) per bird, i watch them eating and if a couple of them go to the water i take away wjats left.........to be honest at the moment my ybs dont seem to be eating as intensly as you would think, but maybe its because they ant doing much exercise at the moment

have you recently changed the corn ? im using vanroebys casseart widowhood mix which has small maize and not the big plate maize and mine eat this ok........

is sounds like you may be overfeeding them and they are now becoming selective, eating their favourite grains. Mine will eat everything thats put down as I do like to keep them on the sharp side.

Tatally agree with you gaz my birds are glad to see any corn in the hopper as its hard to come by in my loft, they would eat stones if I coulored them yellow...over feeding?

LOL Martyn, mine are the same mate. never a grain left and they are always rooting for more.

i feed by eye and as david says an ounce per bird per day is a good rough guide but in this muggy weather my birds have only been eating about an ounce instead of their usual 1 1/4 ounces and noticed they leave the barley and plate maize first .....just cut back a little ,you will soon know by how they trap lol atb

Rudderfett wrote:

Well first of all if you want my advice stop training as I think they have had enough by the sonds of it .....I wouldnt feed by weight I would feed by eye as the birds are getting too much food I would cut it down that way they will mop it all up.Birds only leave food when they are not hungry anymore, maize is especially good for birds so I would save it if they leave it and next feed give that to them first before they get anything more.

Agree there Martyn

Gaz b wrote:

is sounds like you may be overfeeding them and they are now becoming selective, eating their favourite grains. Mine will eat everything thats put down as I do like to keep them on the sharp side.

Spot on Gaz

oldstrain wrote:

i feed by eye and as david says an ounce per bird per day is a good rough guide but in this muggy weather my birds have only been eating about an ounce instead of their usual 1 1/4 ounces and noticed they leave the barley and plate maize first .....just cut back a little ,you will soon know by how they trap lol atb

Agree also Daz

For me you have to keep them a little on the edge so you have control of your birds and they know who is boss