sunday regime

on sundays clay blocks go into lofts and oregano tea into drinkers when racing is over, what do other members do apart from eating sunday roast

my usual routine for the week is matrix most days, and aviform 9 in 1 a couple of times a week in the water Darren....apart from that its food and water.

during racing its aviform most days of the week.....

sunday is a free morning for the birds while I give there sections a good clean and spay with jeys fluid .garlic strong in the water ,and a nice warm bath

mufc rick wrote:

sunday is a free morning for the birds while I give there sections a good clean and spay with jeys fluid .garlic strong in the water ,and a nice warm bath

how about garlic in the gravy ric....luvvvvvly graaaavy you cant beat northern graaaavy with pie and mash peas
on a serious note ric how do you prepare yer garlic for the water I have heard several ways ...when I used to use it I would just leave freshly chopped in the drinker for a few days but have not used garlic for 18 months now

Usually just have open loft. Today was different. Friend turned up. Wondering if I had any surplus birds. So I bit the bullet. He left with 20 young birds. Free. No peds, don't keep them any more.  he knew the reds were out of Gallez Oude vos, pieds and dark feathered legged ones out of Aardens. Blues van Loons. ll crossed of course. Just keep the good racers anyway. Shot another opossum two days ago and short on .22 bullets so he will pick me a box up. Plus a few sheets of plywood. Works both ways. Low 40's here today, gale force winds. So kept them in. They will fly until it snows heavy. He noticed a feral young bird in the loft. In answer to his question told him. Been coming in for 3 weeks now. No sick birds so immunity booster. He was surprised! He is a medicator. My med days are over. Lemon or lime juice only.

nothing wrong with lemon juice hal great for the birds....my grandfather raced some feather legs done well with um too on the long races

LOL hal, a feral used to boost your pigeons immunity...........

sounds like when the vet told me to feed dirty tripe to my dog to boost he`s immune system......

I get the concentrated cubes daz 80 % garlic the rest made up of lemon juice rapeseed and salt nothing else in them no additives just put 2 cubes in warm water let it stand for an hour then add cold water put it in the drinkers the nxt morning plenty of down feathers

Seems to work last few years. Birds have open loft most of the time so clay and veggies and minerals are not lacking. Planting time I have to keep a closer eye on them all the treated seed corn. When I had 2,000 plus sows here years back, get an outbreak of something feed the chopped up young back to the sows. Plus all the antibiotics etc,. I realize that not all fanciers can allow open loft as such. So supplements are usually necessary.

my way is seven days a week 52 weeks a year without fail

edgie wrote:

my way is seven days a week 52 weeks a year without fail

yes but what I meant was on certain days certain things are done and this being a sunday ...its not a fact that the birds only get cared for on a sunday lol

halcanada wrote:

Usually just have open loft. Today was different. Friend turned up. Wondering if I had any surplus birds. So I bit the bullet. He left with 20 young birds. Free. No peds, don't keep them any more.  he knew the reds were out of Gallez Oude vos, pieds and dark feathered legged ones out of Aardens. Blues van Loons. ll crossed of course. Just keep the good racers anyway. Shot another opossum two days ago and short on .22 bullets so he will pick me a box up. Plus a few sheets of plywood. Works both ways. Low 40's here today, gale force winds. So kept them in. They will fly until it snows heavy. He noticed a feral young bird in the loft. In answer to his question told him. Been coming in for 3 weeks now. No sick birds so immunity booster. He was surprised! He is a medicator. My med days are over. Lemon or lime juice only.

When you talk about Lemon Juice visited a fancier close to the area i worked who had a small loft, went driving past one day and noticed the fancier in his front garden, stopped my car and asked about his loft and birds he asked if i wanted to see his birds which i said yes to, it was november time very cold but his pigeons looked like oil paintings just pure quality, very tame but the one thing i noticed in the water fountain was slices of fresh lemon when i asked the old fancier about the slices he said thats the only thing my birds have in there water every other day.

mine been on lock down now for 2 weeks feathers are getting less
the food they are getting now is a resting mix with pelletts and barley
and baths every week . when i let them out again next feb the whole out look out side will haved changed houses all around me now a block of garages right next to my fence on the side of the loft , but the birds can see whats going on when there in the avairy all day .

kev d wrote:

mine been on lock down now for 2 weeks feathers are getting less
the food they are getting now is a resting mix with pelletts and barley
and baths every week . when i let them out again next feb the whole out look out side will haved changed houses all around me now a block of garages right next to my fence on the side of the loft , but the birds can see whats going on when there in the avairy all day .

atb kev I am sure the birds will adapt easy enough to the new surroundings