loft management cleaning.

devo56 wrote:

shippy wrote:

old birds cleaned daily y/birds deep litter and when we pair up the litter is bagged and loft cleaned and sprayed then we put the litter back down the day we wean the y/birds

Shippy, I have never heard of this before, were you bag the litter and put it back down, when breeding as took place and young birds are at the stage to be weaned. I gather it must be to do with the immune system. Would this be correct ?. Thank you.

Shippy's way is not all that strange Devo. If one believes like I do, in the good bug/probotics senaro in the deep litter when dry it just makes sense I think . Also have read where flyers when moving take up the deep litter to place in their new lofts also because of the benefits there.

I don't clean perches tbh I have not cleaned the dropping board yet may have to clean to-day as need photos of birds for the shows what I have noticed no matter how much droppings I never see one speck of dirt on my birds

as you can see I don't clean out much 4 ybs from this pair went to local fancier he raced them to 120mls and still has the 4 left I would have liked them to go to 240mls 5 went to OLR and none reach the 1st race so for me it's about how to race birds not just a clean loft

George one of the best fanciers in the country who lives in my area never cleans his lofts out at all but he wins out of turn and his pigeons look out of this world also

Don Webb wrote:

shippy wrote:

Don Webb wrote:

shippy wrote:

devo56 wrote:

shippy wrote:

old birds cleaned daily y/birds deep litter and when we pair up the litter is bagged and loft cleaned and sprayed then we put the litter back down the day we wean the y/birds

Shippy, I have never heard of this before, were you bag the litter and put it back down, when breeding as took place and young birds are at the stage to be weaned. I gather it must be to do with the immune system. Would this be correct ?. Thank you.

thats the thought behind it devo and been doing it the last 5 year and no probs

Everyone to there own mate nothing wrong with that

Here's one for you Shippy I agree with you 110%, but if you look at the fanciers who don't have problems with YBS you'll find that they don't clean out at all and just scrap the perches, Frank Tasker never cleaned out and look at his results with youngsters

don we do not scrape perches at all

Everyone to there own and if it works nothing wrong with that mate

we keep the stock on easy bed when there on the first round then when the y/b are ready to be weaned we take all the easy bed and straw from the stock loft and let the y/b have it untill racing starts then its moved we give a light spray
of virkons a few times a week duno if it dose any good but they seem happy like that

perches and dropping board done so easy with the board no droppings on the easibed on the floor must do it more

found ybs love the straw when weaned

i'm not a member of a club so I don't have any visitors if I did things may be different

would't change a thing rainbow if visiters was coming round its your loft and if they dont like it they dont have to come again

im a twice a day scraper man myself as i like a clean floor but this year thinking of trying some wooded floor grills

rainbow wrote:

i'm not a member of a club  so I don't have any visitors   if  I did things may be different

You must be like me George . One of the grumpy brigade etc. Hopefully !!! your new job will improve your communcation skills.