Lettuce

[PATTY BHOY]

What are the benefits of giving your birds a lettuce?

[just ask me]

there are benefits id be sure of that apart from anything they love ripping into it keeps them happy if noting else

 

have to say i bought a juicer few year back and put all sorts into cabbage carrots onions etc and put a few table spoons in the birds water once a week i think its of great benefit to the birds

[Pigeon Thos]

My birds get one a week during breeding and racing and they are still rubbish - I know that at certain parts of their cycle they go to the privet hedge or the moss on the roof or god forbid the rhones. Since I stared feeding lettuce there has been no more naughty behaviour. For the last six years they are either in the sky or in the loft.

[sapper756]

I give it to my stock birds (prisoners) every Saturday, they seem to like it, as it disappears quickly

[Guest IB]

I was a teenager when I first noticed how pigeons will gobble lettuce leaves when offered. I used to ask my mum for a few leaves for the pigeons after she’d been to the grocers. Didn’t bother washing them back then, but do now, under the tap. I give the birds mixed greens at least once a week. Usually, the stuff they throw aside that day they will eat later in the week.

 

This is a wee summary from Feed to Win 2 chapter 25.1 pp101-104 on what is in lettuce. Very small amounts of: Vitamins - A, B1,2,3,6 and C. Minerals – Calcium, Phosphorus, Iron, Potassium, and Sodium. And of course Protein & Carbohydrate, again in very small amounts.

[Wiley]

My stock birds get it once a week this time of year. While rearing they receive it more frequently. It's heavily washed and sprinkled lightly with salt. Done it for a number of years, if no lettuce a tray of fresh water cress will go in.

[PATTY BHOY]

Gave the birds a lettuce,they didnae half gobble it up.

[just ask me]

Gave the birds a lettuce,they didnae half gobble it up.

 

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i think they love just playing around with it too