His birds fly really well and look very healthy

Anyone heard of this?

On Saturday  I feed energy mix and  diet with beyers grits and mineral then Sundays third oz energy mix/diet  then hopper of barley . i add Gemthepax if it’s over a 3 hour fly or under 1300ypm

I used to feed some yb mix or something with a few peas but changed to the energy mix/diet   a couple of years ago ,I don’t feed any peas or beans for racing  now days 

Interesting to see what others do 

I use gerry plus normally but add some barley or yb mix to it sunday  and Monday depending on the race race they have had and  then just gerry and some fat seeds from Wednesday night with a increase in amounts fed Wednesday and Thursday 

pretty basic for me 

For young bird racing I was feeding Versile Laga Gerry Plus in the mornings with Bamfords Euro Winner Leige on the evening. The idea behind this was giving the birds a high carb mix to fill them full of energy for the intensive training they were getting on the morning and evening. Then filling them up while they were resting with proteins to ensure that their growth wasn't impaired by lack of protein as they are still growing animals and I feel that just Gerry Plus wouldn't have been too good for them. They also got red band which I’m a big believer in for the sprint races. This feeding worked really well and I ended up runner up to the young bird averages and getting decent combine position in the YB National.

This year the price of Belgium Corn mixtures has went though the roof with the euro/pound exchange rate situation. I’ve therefore decided to discard the elite modern system as the cost of it is massive and you have four bags of corn on the go at the same time and like I said I felt it was lacking something at the longer distances and the birds didn’t seem to eat it as readily as Gerry Plus.

So how for old bird feeding I need a decent feeding system to race with. I will be racing 12 natural hens and a team of 9 widowhood cocks. I have already decided to use Gerry Plus as one of my base racing mixtures as its great stuff. I will be following the feeding schedule of the elite modern system as this did seem to work well but using different mixtures. I need a protein build up mixture however the dilemma I have is was at a pigeon moot and the experts were saying one of the biggest errors you can make is feed too much protein. They also felt that British corn mixtures such as bam fords were poor quality and not as good as Belgium corn.

I was going to use Bam fords Eurowinner Leige as my build up mixture for the longer distance events but after hearing the comments at the moot I’m having different thoughts. Perhaps this mixture may be a bit too much protein rich for old bird racing?

Whats your thoughts on this and have you any recommendations as to mixtures you have used?

So far candidates for my build up mix are:-

1.Bamfords Eurowinner Leige

2.Bucktons Ultimate with red skinned peanuts

3.Versile Laga Best All round

4.Bosmolen PLX

5.Bosmolen Jet Mix

For my fats I was going to use:-

1.Red Band as I’m a big believer in it

2.Mix extra peanuts in

Feeding eh!!!!! Most complicated and essential thing to try and get right.

Although very wet down here it's pretty mild

Sedochol and poultry spice twice a week

Garlic oil and yeast twice week

Avidress every day

Small amount amount of matrix / clay blocks in the evening

Warm bath twice a week

One year I will feed beans barley and a bit of oil seed as I'm sure that's all they need

Changing the feed soon to 1 barley 1 dupurative 1 beans 30 grams a day for the cocks 28 grams for the hens. I have some cod liver oil that I will use twice a week for vitamin D due to the lack of sun and dark days

A bit more barley on the days my water freezes up

They will stay on this to February just prior to breeding

Avidress in the water , and grit and mineral fresh each day

What will others be feeding

most off the mixes 25kg bags

BREEDING OLYMPIA £18.40

MOULTING £17.50

SUPER MOULTING £23.30

START £17.40

SUPER START £19.60

REST £15.90

SPRINTER £17.40

COMPLETE £17.70

ATHLETIC £18.30

SUPER RACING £21.00

EXTREME RACING £18.10

RACING YOUNG £17.70

MARATHON £18.40

TURBO ENERGY £20.90

SUPER ENERGY £20.30

AVAIRY MIX £16.70

BOARDING MIX £32.00

ALL ABOVE 20KG BAGS

BOARDING MIX 4KG £10.80

H.E 12.5KG BAG £18.90

MATADOR OCEAN

GOLD MINERAL 1OKG £20.00

MATADOR MINERAL 10KG £20.00

5KG £12.00

BACKS PRODUCTS

TS=6 PLUS 500GM £19

TS=6 PLUS 300GM £13

EXTRA ENERGLE 400GM £11

PROTEIN PLUS 4OOGM £16.50

OMEGA PLUS OIL 500ML £14

BALANCE 1LTR £17

T.K.K NATURE 250ML £7

T.K.K NATURE 500ML £13

T.K.K POWDER 100GM £19

MAGNESIN 300GM £17

SOYA OIL & OREGANO 500ML £10

LIQUID TEA 500ML £8

BATH SALTS £4.50

SUPER BACKSIN 500ML £9

SCHLEIMREL 500ML (MUCUS FREE) £12

USNEA 500ML £11

MIKROBIOTIUM 500ML £19

LECTHIN 250ML £7.50

GARLIC OIL 250ML £7.50

GLUTABO 500GM £9

the price list for the matador food am going to do a special offer for a month only

£1 off the rrp price only on matador food offer ends 4/5/17

prem sprint £15.40

prem racing £16.40

prem super racing £19.10

prem complete £16.10

prem rest £14.90

prem race young £16.00

prem marathon £16.70

prem start £15.80

prem super start £17.80

prem turbo energy £19.00

prem extreme racing £16.30

prem super energy £20,00

prem moulting £15.80

prem super moulting £21.00

prem breeding Olympia £16.70

prem super breeding £21.30

prem long distance don't have a price yet

all above 20kg bags

matador mineral 5kg

matador ocean gold 10kg

prem h.e 12.5kg £17.20

need a price on any thing else just get in touch

Cheers,

Davie.