red stone grit >>>

[Guest kev d]

my birds have grit and mins in the loft all the time last season

i got a big bag of sea weed grit versel laga they hardly touch it .

at the weekend i got red stone grit the pigeons have gone mad over it

soon as i fill the potts up the empty it right away , what i want to know is to much grit

bad for them . i know they will drink abit more but there droppings are perfect but very red

what do you think , cheers kev

[schouwman71]

hi kev

 

with red stone grit i only put an hand full down every day for them,i once watched a friends pigeons eat half a bag of red stone grit,they were really bad next day,if they keep gulging it have your birds checked for worms and cocci,but usually when you first put red grit down they will eat the lot but after a few day should slow down.

 

les

[Guest strapper]

i think it may be the salt content .in it.

 

[OLDYELLOW]

they are obviously lacking the minerals but as other have said they will eat less once they have enough  

[Guest kev d]

they have evey thing they need pick pot 2 or 3 different minerals

red and black every thing they need they get , they havent got cocci or worms

they are a1 just wanderd why red stone is so tasty

[Guest IB]

i think it may be the salt content .in it.

 

Back when I was a teenager, Kilpatricks used to do a grit that the birds gorged on, and that had a high salt content. I don't think it has anything to do with bodily needs, all animals seem to have a craving for salt and will eat it to excess, including us humans - we are said to eat 2/3 times more than our daily needs.

 

 

[OLDYELLOW]

if they could talk they'd tell ya

[Guest kev d]

oldyellow buy some and see what happens  

[OLDYELLOW]

i use mineral blocks , there made from red grit   difference is they have to work to get at it  

[Guest kev d]

you got a answer for every thing you sound like my wife  

im of to bed now cheers see yer tomorrow old boy

kev

[OLDYELLOW]

good god he wants to marry me  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :X

[pigeonscout]

Hard grit is use to grind the corn and the soft great i.e. red grit dissolves and releases minerals and trace elements.

Let them have what they want they will slow down the intake in a couple of days. They are only building up on what they had been lacking.

[jimmy white]

good god he wants to marry me  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :X

 

another one of his moments ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

as far as grits go and minerals etc ,, if their all in front of them,, clean and dry,, the birds themselves know what they want,,,, and when they want it

[Guest pigeondave]

i mix grit pots and grit from the beach.and there droppings are spot on.

[sammy]

can remember talking to the late willie McAlpine about 20 odd years ago and he said that, that red grit was the best stuff he ever fed to his pigeons

[jimmy white]

talking about the late willie mc alpine,, i remember donaldson bros.  dunbar,, many years ago,, great,lifetime  fliers,   sadly deceased many years ago,,,their birds over the years had their red sandstone wall allmost falling down, with their birds constantly picking at it,over the years,, ....,   they would never repair it , but left the birds to pick on purpose