Feeding System Advice

[Winfort Lofts]

Hello All,

Hope you all are having a good racing season so far!

I have been able to enter the last two races this season so far and am enjoying it all so far!

As we all know consistency can be a very good thing! Unfortunatley for me, so far that consistency has been bottom of the results sheet

I can honestly live with being bottom of the sheet, but so far I have been way off the racing pace, this week for example, the club birds were doing great speeds of 1600+ yds/m, whereas my birds were around 950yds/m.

Admittedly, I know that my feeding currently is not right, so I am looking for a system that will get me on a good footing to start out! So far I have been racing on a breeding mix, which I know will not be doing me any favours!

I suppose the next thing I am wondering, is whether or not the feed, can cause that much of a difference in race speeds??

Please be nice, I'm still learning!

yours in sport!

[Winfort Lofts]

I have mostly sprint birds, from what I have been told anyways!

Currently I am not on a fixed system per se, I have one section in the race loft, there are nest boxes and perches available to the birds!

I only have a small race team, of 8 birds, split 5-3 (hens-cocks). So far returns have been ok, but not great, usually had 50% on the day, then others are back the following morning.

Around the loft flying has been alright, but not flying around for much longer than 20mins at a time.

All have done multiple 25mile tosses though.

[Winfort Lofts]

For the most part they are getting fed once a day in the evening, if they are being tossed over 10mile then they will get half ration on return, and half again on the evening.

They are getting around 1-1.5oz per bird

[Buster121]

I just feed a good all rounder they need more than 1oz though, if they are only flying 20 mins or so they may have something wrong like canker or cocci and need doing, would try a canker or combo treatment for couple days and see how they go

[Winfort Lofts]

We owe you an apology.
We all read your post at 100 miles an hour. We were keener on offering our advice than hearing the question.
May I try to correct that.
You have 8 race birds. They will not tear up the skies like a team of 30 or 60 or 100. They will stay closer to home.
That fact also makes me think that the problem is more likely to be a feed or environment issue than a health issue.

Thanks!

Admittedly on the other forum I'm being told it's health issues, and what not!

I'm in the process of treatment for Cocci, so fingers crossed that will help also!

[killer]

The most common problem when racing pigeons is wet canker ,so if the cocci doesn’t work try doing them for that ,cheers