GOLDEN BOOST

[Guest peter.j]

Hi i have just read a recipe for golden boost ,in the recipe it asks for 2lb pinhead oatmeal do's this mean pinhead oats or a porridge/readybrek type substance also how much and how often would g.b be fed thanks in advance pete

[Guest peter.j]

nobody :(

[REDCHEQHEN]

Pinhead oats or groats - not porridge

 

but my birds wouldn't eat it when I tried it

[Guest peter.j]

thanks its just that it said in the recipe oatmeal so i thought the ground up one ....pete

[REDCHEQHEN]

thanks its just that it said in the recipe oatmeal so i thought the ground up one ....pete

 

you add water and then dry out - it goes mouldy if not dried properly - would imagine porridge would be hard to dry out

[Guest strapper]

what i do is put an oil on the corn and sprinkle the stuff over it and mix.

tried it with the recipe but they didnt eat it.

[Guest bigjohnwadd]

Hello Peter,i just give pumping oldbirds asda`s value oats at57p a kilo,with whatever you need to put on it,you do not need to stick regimental to old hands recipe,as he was usually wrong about most things he every wrote about(i mean original mr Bishop)once they get used to it,they love it,not really sure if it oats really helps youngbirds who really need protein in the form of peas-beans tares ect,but i thing i have noticed over the years breeding wise,fat in the diet alongside protein seems to produce beautiful soft silky feathered youngbirds.

    Another thing i have noticed,whilst bringing up youngsters myself from5 days old until 18-21 days weaning,main ideal is to create silly tame caracter in the birds,but when hand feeding total peanut feed,the youngsters have most beautiful bodyand feather(like kind of thicker)you could ever wish for.

            Hope this helps

[Guest peter.j]

 

you add water and then dry out - it goes mouldy if not dried properly - would imagine porridge would be hard to dry out

 

2lb pinhead oatmeal

1 tbspn salt

2tbspn cod liver oil

4 desert spoon calcium concentrate

3 tbspn granulated or icing sugar

6 brewers yeast tabs crushed

4 tbspn milk

this is a copy of the recipe with it having the milk would it still need the water added.....y.i.s pete

[REDCHEQHEN]

Its not the same recipe that I used LOL !!

 

You had to dissolve sugar in hot water - I don't remember milk being added !

[REDCHEQHEN]

Its not the same recipe that I used LOL !!

 

You had to dissolve sugar in hot water - I don't remember milk being added !

 

Recipe on the side of the jar of fortified calcium is as follows:

 

1. Dissolve 2 tablespoons of sugar in ¼ pint of boiling water and allow to cool

2. Place 2lbs of pinhead oatmeal or groats in a bowl, add 2 dessertspons of fortified calcium, 1 tablespoon of cod liver oil and the above mentioned sugar/water. Mix thoroughly and stand overnight

 

[Novice]

 

Recipe on the side of the jar of fortified calcium is as follows:

 

1. Dissolve 2 tablespoons of sugar in ¼ pint of boiling water and allow to cool

2. Place 2lbs of pinhead oatmeal or groats in a bowl, add 2 dessertspons of fortified calcium, 1 tablespoon of cod liver oil and the above mentioned sugar/water. Mix thoroughly and stand overnight

 

That is the recipie I used and the birds were happy eating it especially when rearing young.

As the off season approaches there is scope to experiment and visit supermarkets and Holland and Barrets looing for additives to the basic formula.

 

Yes I stopped using it when it went mouldy.

 

 

[Guest pigeon82]

i have a tub of ggolden boost in my cupboard and its really fine like powder so i dont understand where you got that recipe from justs seem s weird as i use that stuff in a seperate feed and the birds love it

[Guest peter.j]

i have a tub of ggolden boost in my cupboard and its really fine like powder so i dont understand where you got that recipe from justs seem s weird as i use that stuff in a seperate feed and the birds love it

 

so it probably is ready brek [the oatmeal ingredient]

what if anything do you add to the golden boost ie water milk  and how often and how much do you feed it

[Guest pigeon82]

sent you a pm peter hope it helps

[Guest bigjohnwadd]

Here`s original 1970`s receipe out gazette studbook:--------

 

 

Place2lb ofcoarse oatmeal in a mixing bowl and stir vigorously while adding4 tablespoonfuls of milk,1 of salt,2 fortifiedcalcium concentrate ,3 of sugarand 2 of cod-liver-oil,then add six crushed vit tablets(nowadays multi i suppose not just vit a) note mixture will be oily,so dry off by adding small quantities ofordinaryflour and stirring as yougo until mix is qutte dry.

   The Golden Boost was basically worked out to help the good old "ALL BEAN "feed which has stood the test of time in britian since racing began,mostly because the birds can work on beans alone,but will never have the power to win,that`s where some variation of working the fat into them closer to the big one comes in.

[Guest puresoontjen]

GOLDEN BOOST' RUBBISH ALL LAST YEAR I HAD MY BIRDS ON THIS DIDNT DO ANY THING TO MY BIRDS. THIS YEAR ON OLD BIRDS I GAVE GOOD CORNS TO THEM NOTHING ON THE CORN AND WON CLUB RACES AND FEDS  

[BLACK W F]

peter j thats the old recipe minus the brewers yeast it also had 2 multi vit tablets and was dryed off with flower

[Guest peter.j]

cheers alan finding it difficult to get the calcium locally

[BLACK W F]

try some of the pet shops if not try chemist

[fred x]

Hi i have just read a recipe for golden boost ,in the recipe it asks for 2lb pinhead oatmeal do's this mean pinhead oats or a porridge/readybrek type substance also how much and how often would g.b be fed thanks in advance pete

 

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The formula is from Old Hand, Been going for years!

 

2lbs coarse oatmeal

4-tablespoons milk

1 tablespoon salt

3 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons cod liver oil

2 desertspoons fortified cacium concentrate

6 crushed race vitamin tablets

 

[BLACK W F]

and dry off with flour

[Guest peter.j]

try some of the pet shops if not try chemist

 

chemist only has a tablet form £3 A JAR 30 tiny tablets in it id need a second mortgage just to get 4 tbspn ;D ;D

[BLACK W F]

boddy ridewood sell it

[jimmy white]

 

chemist only has a tablet form £3 A JAR 30 tiny tablets in it id need a second mortgage just to get 4 tbspn ;D ;D

 

try and get adcal-d ,, this is pure calcuim tabs for bone probs in humans,, the tabs are almost the size of a ten p peice  

[magpie]

Stuff to use is coarse oatmeal from Holland and Barrett which is about the same size as the chopped up wheat which forms the base for Harkers Hormoform. It's only a base for the other ingredients which soak into it. I have added wheatgerm oil,(do you think pigeons would  naturally choose to eat a fish oil ?) vitaminerals and then dried it off with brewers yeast which you can also get cheaply from H and B. If they won't eat it at first try and few drops of aniseed oil. I generally give them a little as a supplement when they are feeding young but once they are racing it's back to just good corn.