Soil??

[Tic eye Hen]

Hiya, Why during last season did my young birds and old birds crave and eat soil? Can anyone help?

 

I forgot to add that they always had and have daily, a fresh supply of black minerals and grit

 

I have heard that dogs that eat soil have an iron deficiency. Could this be true for pigeons?

 

I had a very successful season winning 7 first club positions.

[ALF]

WOULD'NT BE TOO WORRIED AS IT DOES'NT SEEM THAT IT AFFECTED THEM AT ALL AS CAN BE SEEN BY YOUR RESULTS 8) 8) 8)

[bewted]

are you sre there eating the soil and not picking up small bits of grit in the soil ????

[DOVEScot]

Hiya, Why during last season did my young birds and old birds crave and eat soil? Can anyone help?

 

I forgot to add that they always had and have daily, a fresh supply of black minerals and grit

 

I have heard that dogs that eat soil have an iron deficiency. Could this be true for pigeons?

 

I had a very successful season winning 7 first club positions.

 

Get the soil tested to see what type it is. you may find out what crave that way :-/

[retired]

can you bag some up and put it on the sales part of the site then we can all get results like that lol  

[chickadee]

are you sre there eating the soil and not picking up small bits of grit in the soil ????

 

Yes I would tend to think it was for the grit too.

[Guest j.bamling]

i watched a video once of a top flyer who used to put a big pot of soil in his racing lofts i think the reason was he thought his birds would not go to the fields ?

[THE FIFER]

you will know by their droppings if they are eating soil,

[retired]

i watched a video once of a top flyer who used to put a big pot of soil in his racing lofts i think the reason was he thought his birds would not go to the fields ?

 

I know of a fancier who every morning of te race season walks to the local crematourium and gets fresh mole hill muck and swears by it

 

[DOVEScot]

you will know by their droppings if they are eating soil,

 

Aye the the floor will be soiled by their droppings ;) ;)

[chickadee]

i watched a video once of a top flyer who used to put a big pot of soil in his racing lofts i think the reason was he thought his birds would not go to the fields ?

 

and did it work?

[DOVEScot]

 

I know of a fancier who every morning of te race season walks to the local crematourium and gets fresh mole hill muck and swears by it

 

Is that because of the high "ash" content ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[THE FIFER]

  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Guest j.bamling]

 

and did it work?

 

i dont know  -- i suppose its what makes you happy ?

[Guest]

Not soil but half a mile under it.   Roland talking about coal mines in another post reminds me of the story that miners brought deep-mined coal dust? home for their pigeons to eat.

[DOVEScot]

Not soil but half a mile under it.   Roland talking about coal mines in another post reminds me of the story that miners brought deep-mined coal dust? home for their pigeons to eat.

 

Aye and stone dust as well

[timbarra]

your pigeons have a ineral imbalance and getting diffecency from soil... the supplementing what you give them. it wont hurt them.

 

spence

[Roland]

 

I know of a fancier who every morning of te race season walks to the local crematourium and gets fresh mole hill muck and swears by it

 

Yep I used to do that too. It is for the mineral content that molehills have.

Seen everyday pigeons fielding for the Mineral trough for cattle and even the salt rock.

Used to also be the case - before ddt etc. / spraying - when pigeons were encouraged to go fielding, for they also had a ripe full feed like. indeed was the best time to (still is) to raise youngsters in the purple.

In the garden they'll  eat 'Peat' none stop and or fertaliser.... whilst it has to be organic as against commerical.

[Roland]

Not soil but half a mile under it.   Roland talking about coal mines in another post reminds me of the story that miners brought deep-mined coal dust? home for their pigeons to eat.

 

Yes. Also who was it that worked where the quartz if plentiful?

[sammy]

coal dust is known to keep the pigeons crop sweet and free from any souring ,remmeber one man who used it a lot especially when the longer races came about he put loads of it down in his garden and pigeons went daft for it was very hard to beat from the distance think he had a hen that scored 3/4 times from nantes this way  ;)thing is now were u get the coal dust from ;D ;D

[THE FIFER]

i go to the beach and collect grit which on our shores also has coal dust in it, the birds love it, i dond give them too much at a time as it turns their droppings black,

[chickadee]

coal dust is known to keep the pigeons crop sweet and free from any souring ,remmeber one man who used it a lot especially when the longer races came about he put loads of it down in his garden and pigeons went daft for it was very hard to beat from the distance think he had a hen that scored 3/4 times from nantes this way  ;)thing is now were u get the coal dust from ;D ;D

 

Women sometimes eat coal when they are pregnant, is that tae keep the baby sweet? ;D ;D ;D ;D

[DOVEScot]

 

Women sometimes eat coal when they are pregnant, is that tae keep the baby sweet? ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

You obviously never ate enough with Kimbo  :X :X :X :X :X

[chickadee]

 

You obviously never ate enough with Kimbo  :X :X :X :X :X

 

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Guest slugmonkey]

I give 4 or more kinds of grit and my birds STILL field I think there are diffrent things that they like and they go to these places to get this stuff

I have a dirt road in the front of my house they go to one particular spot there , I have 5 aceres and there are several low spots where water collects, as soon as these start to dry up the birds will land there and pick they now get on roof and pick in gutters since they were installed, the guy next door plows his garden and as soon as he finishes they land there and pick, I think there are a LOT of things these birds are getting and it seems to make them happy so I let them pick