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Personally we like to bring them down with a barley or depurative mixture, then 7 to 14 days prior to pairing we will build them on a rising plain, increasing the depth of the mixture with a breeding mix. Once laid we'd go on a 50/50 basis, and 5 days before the first eggs hatch in the section they will receive 100% breeding mixture, to help with there nutritional value to produce there crop milk. Once hatched our breeders will be fed 4 times a day with 4 different mixes.

I was disappointed if honest with this episode

My old friend Frank Tasker had one in his conservatory, and I tell you the get very toasty.

In my opinion natural is good for the distance minded fancier. I can't remember anyone locally for many years winning a race under 360 miles racing natural.

Jimmy you are right phil has the Leo HEREMANS direct according to facebook

If were talking about Olieman, were talking ancient history. P & J Boal supposedly have these birds and they fly a very good pigeon. The Olieman was actually a Van Hove pigeon Bill. They also seem to play a part in the family of Roland Janssens

I'll be there

It's what I've heard cannot say if there's any truth in the matter

IHU supposably been out two weeks, RPRA usually 23 december

Favourite time of the year is young bird racing, always get a great buzz, worst time of year is now up until March time

Billy get on Ad Shaerlacken website he'll give you the best run down of it. We find it a great product for the moult

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Geordie, I'm guessing you feed until the birds start to leave barley? As if your grains are measured per bird you wouldn't know your birds ate more? If you do feed they way I think you do, your birds should never have a weight problem or over eat.

You could in theory give them a red band type mix, or anything that contained wheat, red and White Dari, canary seed, linseed, Oats, To increase the carb content of your mix also.

We add more maize and linseed to the mixture but our mix in the winter contains a lot of barley also which is rich in carbs

No extra food but we will increase the carb content of the feed, as we feel carbs play an important role in increasing body temperature

Bern, our pigeons are different in sizes but they are to a type in the hand we like the bird to have balance and the tail flights to apper to be one piece.

Micky Connolly many years ago told me forget about strain names, look to create your own pedigree with winners on all 5 generations on both sides, when you can do that you won't go far wrong. He in my experience was 100% correct. The idea is to create a winning gene pool. I would love to hear Owens thoughts?

I'm guessing as there stock birds they are through the moult? If so I would skip a days feeding once a week, cider vinegar in the drinker daily and as Tony says put them on Barley.

Dry but a cold north easterly wind

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Lindsay, please don't advertise things I'm bidding on please lol I'm hoping to get this as my asthma been playing up recently

I cannot remember the exact two years that I experimented with it, however my findings were exactly as were written in the BHW this week. It must have been at least 9 years ago. The first year I tried 12 and only allowed them to sit for 10 days then straight on widowhood I dropped only 2 but they gave me 4 good races. The following year I tried 8 but they reared and raced even better then the previous year. What can be said I feel it affected them as yearlings, however the advantage was they knew the system, and I found The ones that lasted past the yearling stage performed again as 2 year olds, but maybe that was my family of birds at the time the Lefebre Dhaenens in my experience where late maturing.

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