trip for corn

David wrote:

anyone used crushed brick to give to their pigeons ...?  ive never done it but would imagine the older bricks would be safer, as they are softer when crushed,  modern bricks are very sharp and i would suspect more dangerous ........

David I'd be more concerned about what is in them to be honest, waterproofing agents and bonding compounds used during manufacture, silicons and the like. Maybe the older solid bricks are different but I wouldn't risk it for the sake of a few quid.

Slightly different topic although still around bricks and sand, but I do know Silica is currently the biggest risk to construction workers after asbestos.

the old imperial bricks are different to the modern metric bricks colin .......the imperials, when ground up into small pieces are more or less the same as the mixed grit from the corn shop .......but either way its a lot easier just to buy it, rather than spent time and effort crushing bricks up, plus pigeon grit isnt expensive anyway .

Funny how the townies and barn pigeons exist without all the bull applied to our racers, they are open to every possible good bad or indifferent elements and the ones around here would put many racers to shame.

Tis fanciers who think they know better than nature that have caused all the problems.

Both our sport and the health of our feathered friends has never been so low, all because of commercialism and lack of real concern for the health of our feathered friends along with the idiotic use of this that and the other in the water on the food etc; etc;.

Have a look in barns that used old bricks and lime mortar and think who pecked the lime mortar etc; THE FAIRIES ?.

Regards.

David I'm lucky that I can get chicken grit from farm shop, sold loose so a shovelful is only a couple of quid, lasts ages and the pigeons don't know its for chickens

i always had a pot of crushed oyster shell or chic grit in the loft and daily in the breeding season its a good calcium source ,i never ever used any calcium supplement in the water that some advocate ,they sell it in jollyes pet store by the killo loose

barnie wrote:

David I'm lucky that I can get chicken grit from farm shop, sold loose so a shovelful is only a couple of quid, lasts ages and the pigeons don't know its for chickens

Maybe what your racing there etc Barnie have chicken blood in their pedigree maybe, if that is so     That being said always been a brick man here, still using the same bricks from when I first built my house, back when. Have a special box here that I crush them all in with the head of a crow bar. End of the day just basically giving the birds simple clay which in my view is very important in a cheap type way, if your a Steptoe/scrounger type    .