Feeding For Young Birds

[Guest joshdonlan]

My youngsters have now cut there excercising down to about 20 25 minutes morning and night, about a week ago they were going for nearly 1 hour AM and PM.

 

Theyre being fed on a YB High protein mix, do you think this could be too heavy?

 

I have also used a bag of Van Roebaeys no 23, but again seems heavy.

 

What lighter YB mixes are there?

 

Ive seen Natural YB Maxi. Does anyone use this?

[OLDYELLOW]

at some point ybs go off too much protein and then they need more barley/wheat junior 'o' for example

[Guest joshdonlan]

Cheers. Looks like I need to go and look at a few, but i get what you mean with too much protein. Ive heard Frank Tasker saying too much peas and beans are poison

[OLDYELLOW]

Cheers. Looks like I need to go and look at a few, but i get what you mean with too much protein. Ive heard Frank Tasker saying too much peas and beans are poison

ill go with that with beans and maples due to the skins

[Guest joshdonlan]

What depurative mixes are there? Most YB mixes look too heavy so may go 50 50 with the Vanroebaeys

[Guest rodders]

how old are they josh if mature enuff to start chasing and pairing up will stop flying for so long and be more interested in chasing

[Guest joshdonlan]

dont think they are that old yet, but the cocks are starting showing a little bit.

[David048]

they go through phases where they fly less - maybe time to start training em

[frank-123]

gerry plus is a lighter mix i wont feed that till 14 days before the first youngbird race

[holmsidelofts]

Hi josh.

i changed the way i fed mine this year and it has transformed them, they are doing 1.5 to 2 hours a day no matter what the temperature they fly there hearts out, never panting just really enjoying themselves.

We are feeding versa larga super diet one and quarter oz once a day. we mix a handful of sunflower hearts into it.

 

this is what it looks like without the sunflower hearts.

 

 

When we start training we will use this as a depurative and start adding heavier corn towards the end of the week as we start to heavily train them.

good luck mate.

 

jas.

[greenlands]

The best and cleanest feed I've seen this season is Vanrobaeys depurative,now I have started training they are on Van--Dep and Gerry plus.

Lindsay

[Guest joshdonlan]

may go the same way now im getting into training

[Guest youngboy]

My youngsters have now cut there excercising down to about 20 25 minutes morning and night, about a week ago they were going for nearly 1 hour AM and PM.

 

Theyre being fed on a YB High protein mix, do you think this could be too heavy?

 

I have also used a bag of Van Roebaeys no 23, but again seems heavy.

 

What lighter YB mixes are there?

 

Ive seen Natural YB Maxi. Does anyone use this?

 

 

josh is you can get venobraeys racing no.39 its a meduim mixture with lots of small seeds i got a bag few weeks ago and im sticking to that mix now JMO i think its a perfect mix not to heavy and not too light.