Maize

[The White Rapido Man]

I have acquired some Karel Herman stock to breed my YB team next year, and have heard  from a couple of fanciers that feeding this strain maize sends them hypo.....and difficult to control.

 

 

.....can anyone either validate or dispell this theory???? ......next year will be my first seasons racing...so unfortunately I am reliant on what info fellow fanciers 'choose' to give me!!!!!!

 

.....the last thing I want though is to be 'sold down the river'

 

cheers  

[bewted]

personally i think your being told a tall story!!!

[THE PRIEST]

Never herd of maize causing problems with karel hermans. I have been flying karel hermans for about 5 years and i feed them on premier gold . this contains maize and i have won the old bird inland average for 4 out of the last five years in my club mainly with the hermans. They seem quite carm and are not hyper active in any way. Hope this helps... michael

[The White Rapido Man]

........................thanks for that

 

 

I did wonder  

[timbarra]

maize or yellow corn as its known on the continent, is a good food for pigeons , but i do not feed it as that is my choice only. but best thing to bekieve are your own eyes and leave theory and rumour to others.

 

regards spencer

[The White Rapido Man]

thanks Spencer........................

 

 

could I ask why you don't feed maize if you feel it is good for pigeons?

( please dont think I'm trying to be nosey.....I'm just interested in your views...)

 

 

I am not a novice pigeon fancier..........infact I bred  YB teams 2 last years but circumstancers ment I couldn't race...

 

I do talk to many racing men, and extract the info / tips I feel is relevant to me....I agree....there are so many varying differences of opinions it woudl be foolish to take on board them all......and folk will tell you anything...especially if they see you as a potential threat to their success!!!.......

 

Nuitrition for racing is something I am trying to studying at the moment......and I need as much imput as I can get!!!!

 

please note that I dont want this to turn nto a debate.......and want the varying veiws only

 

thanks

 

  

[The White Rapido Man]

Our birds get fed 100% maize in the baskets on our interntional races never seemed to do them any harm at all and i never heard of anyone having any problems with them being fed it

 

 

do you fly Hermans??.........................I am guessing you load prior to race day on this as they are carbs to fuel to long races????

 

on that basis do you limit the maize intake during your trianing programmes......then bang them 100% to them that extra energy???

 

I apologise if this thread is evolving from the original question..........

[Guest shadow]

some one has been winding you up kept many strains of pigeons over the years never founf maize to have any adverse effect on any of them, but the only time I would feed it on its own was when building up for channel races.

[Tony C]

Nuitrition for racing is something I am trying to studying at the moment......and I need as much imput as I can get!!!!

 

please note that I dont want this to turn nto a debate.......and want the varying veiws only

 

thanks

 

  

 

http://www.kjsgroup.com/rprs/aspx/docview.aspx?/rprs/itlasp/March2001/GrainsFuelandPigeonRacing.asp

If this link doesn't take you to the page   Grains, Fuel and Pigeon Racing directly click on articles under More site contents and you will find   Grains, Fuel and Pigeon Racing

 

 

 

[The White Rapido Man]

thanks all..................

 

 

Tony - useful link - thanks alot

 

TWRM

[timbarra]

HI TWRM,

 

I dont feed maize or yellow corn , simply because my birds throw it all over and seem to prefer smaller grains and I feel its getting wasted , but if you feed little and often I am sure they will eat it.

I do not feed maize, peas, beans, or wheat.   strange I know but I only feed light mixture and thats what they get all the year, they breed and win on my feed so no need to change.!!

 

if they stop winning maybe I will then look at my ways and methods,

 

I do however feed my birds dog feed, Vitalin flakes.... no kidding or joking ask people who seen my pigeons. they will confirm this. it has maize in it smashed down into a pulp and dried which is just as good..

 

regards spencer

[The White Rapido Man]

great stuff..thanks

[Castleview]

Maize is full of vitamins, and it's the highest grain in vitamin A. I'll be using it  ;D

[p charlton]

i was at the corn shop years back this bloke was saying to me never use the normal mase its gm and causes young bird sickness. he said use pop corn maze. i thought yeh right he told me he had sickness for 4 years but since not using normal maze hes not had sickness for 3 years. anyway i tried it for my last 2 years and never got young bird sickness this is at a time were loads of people had it some people were sending the birds that had it. might not be nowt in it but it worked for me.

[mark proctor]

hi rapido man ive just read your thread on feeding maze to your carol hermans ... i had to chuckle to my self when you said they go hypo when fed maze... ive just started up pigeons this year after heving a year of plus moving house and ive had some karol hermons give me of a good friend... when he put them in the basket for me at is house he said dont feed them maze just a protien mix with no maze ...because you want get them out the sky..i thought to my self is this guy having me on or what? but after reading what you have been told it makes me wonder...but theres some good fanciers on this site who no what there on about so i think i will listen to them cos theyve already got hermons... anyway m8 all the best with them.ps im just of to get me hermons in theyve been flying since 6.30 this morning... ner only joking.. all the best mark... ;)

[Guest j v ward]

HI TWRM,

 

I dont feed maize or yellow corn , simply because my birds throw it all over and seem to prefer smaller grains and I feel its getting wasted , but if you feed little and often I am sure they will eat it.

I do not feed maize, peas, beans, or wheat.   strange I know but I only feed light mixture and thats what they get all the year, they breed and win on my feed so no need to change.!!

 

if they stop winning maybe I will then look at my ways and methods,

 

I do however feed my birds dog feed, Vitalin flakes.... no kidding or joking ask people who seen my pigeons. they will confirm this. it has maize in it smashed down into a pulp and dried which is just as good..

 

regards spencer

ingredients in vitalin cooked wheat cooked sweetcorn marrowbone soya cooked barley vitamins minerals pigeons love it

 

 

[Guest TAMMY_1]

Maize is full of vitamins, and it's the highest grain in vitamin A. I'll be using it  ;D

 

Always use it when birds are going to the longer races, just a little added to their feed .

[Castleview]

Will do.