WINTER

[sapper756]

Interested to know how fanciers treat thier birds over the winter/moult. Do you shut them up or still give them thier liberty?

[ACE LOFTS]

shut them up and plenty of hot baths

[AlanWilkins]

use to lock them up but ive been advised by a very very good fancier to fly them every other day through the winter (unless extreamly bad) but if the miss 2 days the 3rd they must go out no matter what the weather this is once the moult is over. And this bloke is rated as one of the best in the uk at any distance

[Guest TAMMY_1]

AGREE HERE ALAN KEEP THEM OUT FLYING AND I AM NOT ONE OF THE BEST FLIERS IN BRITAIN

[ACE LOFTS]

oh yes allan ones the moult is over they start going out

[Guest CS]

shut them up and plenty of hot baths

 

Do you put anything in the bath?

[ACE LOFTS]

the best bath salts i found were klaus i got them from the show "blackpool" i think they kick ass out of all the other 1's on the market and trust me iv used a few.

 

there in a yellow tub and as soon as u smell them it goes straight to your head thats the 1 u want.

 

but the feathering on the pigeons 1's had a bath turns out really nice and it kills most of the bugs on the feathers.

gret product

[Guest CS]

Cheers, do you know where can i buy klaus ???????????

[Guest]

Cocks one day, hens the next. Even when moulting. Birds at different stages of moult - some wont want to come out others come out and do 1/2 hour, some just lay in the sun. More times out more baths they get when moulting. Currently use garlic water with a little added cider vinegar in the bath. I find that if let out through winter when spring comes and hawk is at her worst old birds are fit, sharp and very hard to catch. When I listened to someone last year and gave them little winter exercise this spring when I let them out they were too unfit to out run the hawk in the first couple of weeks so lost a couple. Back to my normal routine this year. Hope this helps.

[ACE LOFTS]

hi cs

 

the only place i no were to get it from is blackpool, what i do is get enough for the year that way u get a deal.

[Tony C]

 

Do you put anything in the bath?

 

 

Water (undiluted) ;D ;D ;D

 

[andyb]

so long as they are well watered , fed and bathed it really makes no difference to the pigeons. have tried both ways and still find they take the same time to come into form when you need it.

[AlanWilkins]

best thing in the bath water n ill stand by is common garden mint boiled for 20 mins strained n put in the water. Costs nothing worth its weight in gold.

[Guest]

not heard of that one, what does it do alan is it relaxing or something. Or do lice hate it.

[andyb]

prob very good for the respiratory but its a new one on me

[Guest]

with the winter i find it hard enough to feed the birds let alone exercise them! not so bad at the min but a few more weeks and it dark going to work and dark coming home, same for my dad, so they remain locked in during winter, they might go out at weekends.

[Wiley]

same heregezza after my darkness yb are locked up after a month,after that it gets dark and dont have time apart from weekends.at the winter the lights in our lofts are left on till 8 o clock!at the moment there moulting like gooduns and mike lycetts advice of putting buttermilk in the drinker is working a treat although they dont like drinkin it much ive notcied an improvement in more feathers

[Guest]

very good, good to see good advice been given this is what this is all about

[Beanz]

I try to get my birds out as much as possible as this means you dont have to work them as much at the beginning of the season in cold winds. Also after a frosty night you get some really sunny days and the birds love them

[ALF]

I GIVE MY BIRDS BUCKFAST DURING THE WINTER I DONT THINK IT DOES THEM ANY GOOD BUT IT MAKES THEM THINK THEIR AS HARD AS F*CK AND THEY SCARE AWAY THE HAWKS :P ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Guest speckled]

;D well mine go out as much as the weather will let, open loft that way thay can fly if thay like or just rest,plenty of baths, oil on the food, , why change a routine plenty of grit minerals & peck stone ,mine  seem to fine Speck

[rockinrick]

they go out as long as they want  as loft is left open all day so mine do as they please lol ;D ;D

[Guest TAMMY_1]

ITS WINTER ALREADY

[Guest]

Winter already Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

[Guest TAMMY_1]

I GIVE MY BIRDS BUCKFAST DURING THE WINTER I DONT THINK IT DOES THEM ANY GOOD BUT IT MAKES THEM THINK THEIR AS HARD AS F*CK AND THEY SCARE AWAY THE HAWKS :P ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

WHATS BUCKFAST ALF , DO YOU BUY IT FROM BODDY AND RIDEWOOD AND DOES IT DO THEM ANY GOOD ,