lemon juice

who uses lemon juice and why ?, i already know, just want your oppinions please thanks.  

edgie wrote:

who uses lemon juice and why ?, i already know, just want your oppinions please thanks.  

I hope your not going all scientific on me now Edgie   "I give up"   But basically it's to acidify the birds internal system etc I believe. Vitamin C, comes to mind. Sad I know   but you do tend to use things over time & then forget why    I will say thou, my freezer is full of ice blocks & I have bottles of it in the fridge etc here "Far too much" but it's all free   of our lemon trees. So at the end of the day ??????? it's one of those things, which in my view. Has a place for the birds in the loft etc & it's cheap.  
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I dont use it but I have herd some use it to put powders on the corn lemon juice first I think it helps the gut as I say I dont use it cant coment what I dont no about,    

YEP that's me I put lemon juice on corn about twice a week when I need to moisten it for powders.
And as part of my acid feeding regime, as well as apple cider vinegar lemon juice is great, I just use the lemon shape jif not a real lemon.

Always used lemon juice with honey in the water as the birds first drink when they return from a race

Don Webb wrote:

Always used lemon juice with honey in the water as the birds first drink when they return from a race

CHEERS DON ive never used it, but that's food for thought.   

Don Webb wrote:

Always used lemon juice with honey in the water as the birds first drink when they return from a race

I used lemon juice on the feed with brewers yeast and once a month blended a fresh lemon sieved it and put it in the drinkers and topped up with water never seen no signs of resp sean

if you use lemon juice from the bottle on the corn once a week at the rate of, (the amount of vinigar you would put on your fish & chips) the skin on your birds will be nice and clean, not scurfy, same as the old sailors it keeps scurvey away, hope this bit of information helps keep your birds in better condition. 

Like Don I also put in water along with propelis on return from races
Ken

Don Is again spot on with his comments, I forgot to mention that is exactly what I put in the water after a race. 

Rudderfett wrote:

Don Is again spot on with his comments, I forgot to mention that is exactly what I put in the water after a race. 

I know one thing that is better      Lemon meringue pies etc & cream/ice cream, I have an old toss partner (Champion) thou he is like me now "Well past it"    but can he make a terrific meringue pie. I do my bit thou, & supply the lemons    he then makes them & I then just eat them, with great pleasure   .  
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edgie wrote:

if you use lemon juice from the bottle on the corn once a week at the rate of, (the amount of vinigar you would put on your fish & chips) the skin on your birds will be nice and clean, not scurfy, same as the old sailors it keeps scurvey away, hope this bit of information helps keep your birds in better condition. 

I just thought    I would try & kick this topic off again, as Edgies advise was worth reading etc, at least in my view. I'm quite sure many of us here, do strange/weird & unconventional things in our systems with our birds etc. I would just like to hear about some of them    so be brave    & step outside of the square, so to speak here.
Now !!!! today here it is a cracker of a day etc & I got the bones moving & did an hour or so of weeding for the missus   just to keep sweet. Then I was like a young bull on the rampage      & so, then got the big sledge hammer out & went berserk. I have hundreds of old red bricks, my neighbour years ago threw them over the fence etc when he was remodelling his garden, he thought I was terrific (little did he know) as he didn't have to take them up the hill to the dumpmaster etc, then to the tip. Anyway !!!!! Some would have figured out by now   here,  I'm a bit of a tight a**e & I don't spend money  etc unless I get value for my dollar. Hence the sledge hammer, 6/8 pots of red grit I get out of one brick, $5 a pot here so I think I'm in front so to speak & I also throw in some charcoal from my wood fire also. Because I'm such a tight a**e.
Enough said,   let's just see now, where it all finishes up.  
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heres mine for what its worth...I been using herbal tea bags during the moult
twinnings of course only the best  seriously though they are herbal and contain nettle ,fennel, dandelion, mint,burdock and camomile a natural detox  

oldstrain wrote:

heres mine for what its worth...I been using herbal tea bags during the moult
twinnings of course only the best  seriously though they are herbal and contain nettle ,fennel, dandelion, mint,burdock and camomile a natural detox  

    I don't know about the last 2 OS   But I do  know about the first 4  , & they are easy to grow etc & cheap also.  
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Knackered wrote:

oldstrain wrote:

heres mine for what its worth...I been using herbal tea bags during the moult
twinnings of course only the best  seriously though they are herbal and contain nettle ,fennel, dandelion, mint,burdock and camomile a natural detox  

    I don't know about the last 2 OS   But I do  know about the first 4  , & they are easy to grow etc & cheap also.  
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hi traves the last two...burdock is a good blood purifier and camomile is good for the skin complaints  

seanl wrote:

Don Webb wrote:

Always used lemon juice with honey in the water as the birds first drink when they return from a race

I used lemon juice on the feed with brewers yeast and once a month   blended a fresh lemon sieved it and put it in the drinkers and topped up with water  never seen no signs of resp  sean  

That brings to my mind a time I visited an old fancier his birds looked out of this world loft was open to all weather conditions but what I noticed in the water fountain was slices of fresh lemon and he said that's all he ever used nothing else

Rudderfett wrote:

Don Is again spot on with his comments, I forgot to mention that is exactly what I put in the water after a race. 

Cheers Martyn but I know nothing

maybe thats why when we get golds we are told to have a lemsip

its nothing new to use lemons just that most try to brain wash you

there is far better things but at 50 times the cost and do sod all

they say today pigeons are better and faster i doubt that there any better

than 30 to 40 years ago just metthurds have improved more

and you didnt have all this illness back then or all these wonder cures

it was end of season bin what wasnt worth a perch

birdy2011 wrote:

maybe thats why when we get golds we are told to have a lemsip

its nothing  new to use lemons just that most try to brain wash you

there is far better things  but at 50 times the cost and do sod all

they say today pigeons are  better and faster i doubt that there any better

than 30 to 40 years ago just metthurds have improved more

and you didnt have all this illness back then or all these wonder cures

it was end of season bin what wasnt worth a perch

for my money birdy the birds over hear are better than those over there, loads of british fanciers depart for leha market, to buy there cast offs, they must be mad, not only are they buying cast offs , they are buying the problems with them also?, just take the unfortunate fanciers in south wales this year, the birds in england have been tested for years accross the channel and at the distance, the uropean birds have not?.

birdy2011 wrote:

maybe thats why when we get golds we are told to have a lemsip

its nothing  new to use lemons just that most try to brain wash you

there is far better things  but at 50 times the cost and do sod all

they say today pigeons are  better and faster i doubt that there any better

than 30 to 40 years ago just metthurds have improved more

and you didnt have all this illness back then or all these wonder cures

it was end of season bin what wasnt worth a perch

Mad Mad world we now live in Birdy  . "The above" Reminds me !!!!!!!, of a topic I read on that other site   A bloke spent 6 Grand to fly a young bird season etc (One of the battlers) My mind boggles     at what he may have been pumping into the poor birds to get a result etc.  
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