Chicken pellets, good idea ...?

started my birds on the chicken pellets a few days ago, not sure if it was a good idea.........

the droppings have changed from green tinged with white to brown and its like going into a chicken shed.........

maybe should have just stuck to breeding mix, any thoughts ?

David wrote:

started my birds on the chicken pellets a few days ago, not sure if it was a good idea.........

the droppings have changed from green tinged with white to brown and its like going into a chicken shed.........

maybe should have just stuck to breeding mix, any thoughts ?

would not touch them , if you want to give them a good start in life, give them canary egg food, a good mix of grains not barley and 50% protien,

nothing wrong with it david i will be using them as well when i go and stock up on it
i use it in a hopper they take what they want but i have a breeding mix in pots
in the nest box as well stick with it cos they have all the vits in there your birds need
droppings do change when you change your food i use red stone grit it firms the drooppings right up or you can use a little bit of table salt that does the same but not much .

always used the g10s myself david doubt if it will make any diff to yer birds just new to them thats why the drops are diff i would think atb

Is there a problem with feeding barley to young pigeons in the nest if so please tell me

i dont know blood but some barley i have seen has long tails ...i would imagine this difficult at times to feed their young jmo

Thanks oldstrain,

I use them and my droppings are fine, pigeons digestion works just like ours and the food eaten affects the droppings in some way coulour, texture and consistancy but nothing to worry about.
Just a change, but just give them in small amounts about 20% in a mixture is about right I would say.

going off these chicken pellets, just dont like them, thinking of stopping them now............

David wrote:

going off these chicken pellets, just dont like them, thinking of stopping them now............

lol i know wat ya mean david ....thats why i got the g10s been using um for 2 years now all year round atb

chicken layers or rearers pellets first cl;ass if yer birds not eating them add a drop of peanut oil to get them going they perfect sean

David I use chicken pellets all the year round in a mix of corn in fact I have my mix of corn now for the whole of the season nothing special with peanuts in as well and I get results with that, the pellets you have they are layers pellets are they and not growers pellets I would say stick with them you will find the droppings will firm but you must give them a chance the only thing you will find is they drink more water, they are lot cheaper than pigeon pellets perhaps not the same stuff in them if you see anything wrong with the birds seek advice on what is wrong it will have nothing to do with the pellets

hi ginger the pellets i have are called golden lay layers pellets, they were £8 per bag, compaired to the G10`s which were nearly £16 per bag.....

Thats what I am using, layers pellets.

I don't no what mine are called its just I was told not to use growers pellets cant remember why but I have never used them.

plenty pigeon men use the chicken pelletts nowt wrong with um but dont keep many birds so go for the g10s i was using just a mix of corn and puting gem the pax on the corn and drying off with brewers or pink min....so to save dosh went for the pellet which has gem the pax...david they are more exspensive but have been specificaly made for pigeons which i prefer jmo

i use both layers and growers no problems with young reared
stock just seem to take more water thats reason droppings are loose
i have used em for years now all year round
but everyone to there own lads

thanks for the help and advise all........so it seems theres no need to stop using them and they wont harm the ybs or the parents then .

what i didnt like about them was the droppings have changed from a nice green tipped with white, to a brown colour which are softer (but not watery} and a bit smelly compared to when feeding just corn.

I was told pellets have antibiotics in them is this true.

hi bloodred, in the composition label in doesnt contain antibiotics,maybe turkey pellets might i dont know..........altho i have heard this said before

altho it does list hi protien soya from genetically modified sources, which i find a bit worrying...........

they cant put anti biotics in them david as the end product wether an egg or bird for the table would contain the anti biotic ,they used to have cocci meds in them but was banned because entering the human food chain

yes pete, also heard this before too, anything destined for the table for human consumption cant have such things as anti biotics in them, altho like i say i have heard the same question discussed before regarding the chicken/turkey pellets.......

altho when you think about it, it seems the powers that be dont really care what goes for human consumption, look at the horse burger scam.......

bet theirs plenty chickens and turkeys that have come to the table with antibiotics in them ...we are only 1 of two countries that still use beytril in the food chain ie pigs ....you can bet yer bottom dollar, another drug used is marbofloxacin (cows and pigs) same family of drugs ...after all the goverment dont want joe public to live to a ripe old age because you cost money ...

very true darren, ive often wondered how the royals seem to live to over 100, (with the odd exception of course)........yes they get the best of everything, food, health treatment etc, but i do think they will be getting life prolonging drugs to leep them alive for longer, whereas joe public are lucky if they even manage to recieve any treatment for illness`s.

i think we can safely say they are the biggest benefit scrougers in the uk, and i wonder if the bedroom tax will effect them..........

sorry this has nothing to do with chicken pellets......rant over

lol david ....must be all that royal jelly they swallow they only have to sneeze and their in hospital.its all the hangers on in the royal family that get up my nose draining the country dry living it up while joe public has to make ends meet what with them and immigrants and politician perks thats my pennys worth anyway lol