What are you feeding your birds

I was wondering what you guys are feeding your birds -

When they are sitting eggs?

and

When they are feeding babies?

Phil

At the moment they are on 50/50 bamfords multi task and natural 4 seasons 100% 4seasons when sitting and 50/50 multi task and premier gold when feedimg

versa laga start plus with 20% wheat added and 10% g10 pellets when they start hatching out the wheat will be taken out

When they're sitting and feeding We feed best all round pal

multi task/breed&wean/breeder moulting, a shovel of each and stir

Sitting am layer and bos pellets barley linseed pm 4seasons
Hatch to weaning am first feed 4seasons plus peas mid morning layers bos linseed.
Pm 4seasons peas 50/50 then pot of peas in each box once starting to feather...

Very interesting answers - thanks

Phil

im feeding 25% depurative, 75% vanrobys all round to those paired up or sitting eggs, for those feeding young birds I`m feeding gem breeding mix, with g10 pellets mixed.

David wrote:

im feeding 25% depurative, 75% vanrobys all round to those paired up or sitting eggs, for those feeding young birds I`m feeding gem breeding mix, with g10 pellets mixed.

you only have 1 yb or have i missed a post? you could take it home with you and make
its dinner....

fieldwalker wrote:

David wrote:

im feeding 25% depurative, 75% vanrobys all round to those paired up or sitting eggs, for those feeding young birds I`m feeding gem breeding mix, with g10 pellets mixed.

you only have 1 yb or have i missed a post? you could take it home with you and make
its dinner....

 I don't tell all my secrets fieldy........


p.s. ybs are very much like mice, there`s never just one .....

fieldwalker wrote:

Sitting am layer and bos pellets barley linseed pm 4seasons
Hatch to weaning am first feed 4seasons plus peas mid morning layers bos linseed.
Pm 4seasons peas 50/50 then pot of peas in each box once starting to feather...

Old school way FW etc I suggest. Peas, peas & peas & a few other little treats thrown in for the interest/enjoyment factor it appears.

Nesting etc,. Just a basic regular mix. Cheap. Few days before hatching add Safflower, peanuts, sunflower or any oil seeds. See what your birds are leaving. In my case usually peas. Same when weaned. I do not care what studies show! Too much protien is not good for them in my opinion. With peas and beans they get a build up of a bad acid or such from what I read. Do not resrach it that much any more. The parents know best. What I have found is that the addition of brown rice, (mine comes from Australia) is as good a health builder as anything else on the market. Unhulled. Get it from the local big grocery store. Little more expensive than white rice but well worth it! Not much needed either. Usually in a racing mix I sometimes buy but intend to add more to the mix this year.

Knackered. I imagine it is what they are used to.

halcanada wrote:

Nesting etc,. Just a basic regular mix. Cheap. Few days before hatching add Safflower, peanuts, sunflower or any oil seeds. See what your birds are leaving. In my case usually peas. Same when weaned. I do not care what studies show! Too much protien is not good for them in my opinion. With peas and beans they get a build up of a bad acid or such from what I read. Do not resrach it that much any more. The parents know best. What I have found is that the addition of brown rice, (mine comes from Australia) is as good a health builder as anything else on the market. Unhulled. Get it from the local big grocery store. Little more expensive than white rice but well worth it! Not much needed either. Usually in a racing mix I sometimes buy but intend to add more to the mix this year.

Always have a good at times Hal     when I read the science factor side to do with our pigeons etc when feeding. For me waffle of the highest order I would suggest on average . Basic standard cheap mix as we well know with a few little treats as such will bring success if all else is in place with our birds, even if going against what the science factor brigade or even the big pigeon grain suppliers some how tell us it may be all wrong as such . Now no peanuts/rice for me Hal I'm just out of my price/bracket range here, with my little flock.
*****

Peanuts are relatively cheap here. Safflower cheaper. I prefer Safflower to peanuts. Brown rice should be cheap there? You folks grow it.

halcanada wrote:

Peanuts are relatively cheap here. Safflower cheaper. I prefer Safflower to peanuts. Brown rice should be cheap there? You folks grow it.

Your wrong Hal all the above cost an arm & a leg type of thing here . Free trade thing I suspect make the locals pay big, big time & flog it off cheap, cheap cheap to other countries I'm to build up the trade issue side.

I stand corrected. UK is doing the Brexit thing and workers are paying for it. Yet from income earned, retirement ratio is 28%? Not sure. Canada is 53% and there are many countries ahead of us.

halcanada wrote:

Nesting etc,. Just a basic regular mix. Cheap. Few days before hatching add Safflower, peanuts, sunflower or any oil seeds. See what your birds are leaving. In my case usually peas. Same when weaned. I do not care what studies show! Too much protien is not good for them in my opinion. With peas and beans they get a build up of a bad acid or such from what I read. Do not resrach it that much any more. The parents know best. What I have found is that the addition of brown rice, (mine comes from Australia) is as good a health builder as anything else on the market. Unhulled. Get it from the local big grocery store. Little more expensive than white rice but well worth it! Not much needed either. Usually in a racing mix I sometimes buy but intend to add more to the mix this year.

I agree about the peas and beans ...also the ybs take an age to get off the loft roof once weaned,a balanced mix everytime for me

waiting of a delivery of harringtons optimum pellets,im going to try them out on the stock loft
just a pot full to see how they go.
trying them on a recommendation of a good distance flier at the distance...
'' at the distance they just HOP in'

fieldwalker wrote:

waiting of a delivery of harringtons optimum pellets,im going to try them out on the stock loft
just a pot full to see how they go.
trying them on a recommendation of a good distance flier at the distance...
'' at the distance they just HOP in'

what are they fieldy, never heard of them...........

rabbit pellets 14% protein minerals vits and '' greens'' iv been reading about a few fanciers using them.
so thought id try them myself, id be hopping mad not too

I just feed farm corn when not racing, wheat barley oats peas and beans , up the barley when sitting then when feeding its a mix of oats wheat peas and beans but also don't what too much protean as don't want to force ybs growth, might also mix handful of breeding mix through the farm corn but keep off the maze untill ybs leave the nest

jonD wrote:

I just feed farm corn when not racing, wheat barley oats peas and beans , up the barley when sitting then when feeding its a mix of oats wheat peas and beans but also don't what too much protean as don't want to force ybs growth, might also mix handful of breeding mix through the farm corn but keep off the maze untill ybs leave the nest

Another porridge type man I see JonD . Same, same here with the maize as such & the beans here etc, are replaced by peas because of the cost factor.

fieldwalker wrote:

waiting of a delivery of harringtons optimum pellets,im going to try them out on the stock loft
just a pot full to see how they go.
trying them on a recommendation of a good distance flier at the distance...
'' at the distance they just HOP in'

MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm why not just throw in a bag of carrots also FW I suggest. You maybe could just get an extra hop or two there in the final mile etc .

be good for night fliers dont see many rabbits with glasses....well maybe in oz