Keeping them healthy

[Buster121]

Only use black and pink minerals along with redstone grit

[Spieker-Loft]

Great topic Specially right now in the moulting time its almost more important then ever to do the "Right" things. We use a food mixture containing high sulfur amino acids which helps the pigeons in the moulting process. In the drinker they get 3-4x per week High sulfur amino acids (Taubengold from rohnfried) Also with that they get vitamins also from rohnfried (Gervit-W). The moulting stage is super important obviously since the new feathers they gain will be the ones they will be racing in the year after. So for us its very important to supply the pigeons with the minerals etc which help them in the process.

[Buster121]

As I have often said I keep it very simple. And natural.
I am a firm believer in the benefits of freshly crushed garlic and organic apple cider vinegar. I also feed freshly chopped vegetables regularly as I think it adds nutrients which could be missing from a grain diet.
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I do feed fish oil, but found that when the birds were locked up they didn't want it.
Another thing, when I got the small bucket I use to mix oil through the feed and took the lid off it, it nearly knocked me over It stunk.
Just the other day Ad Schaerlaeckens was telling of a bloke who now uses sugar or honey in water on the feed to stick powders to the grains. Oils do go off and leave a build up of smelly residue.
I scrubbed the little bucket and put it out to dry and now it's clean.
I am a great believer in grit, especially when the hens are about to lay and when they are raising babies. I have a hen that would fly 40 yards across the garden and follow me into the shed to ride back to the loft in the grit bucket

Not keen on fish oils myself I fear them going off so I don’t tend to use them i do use flax bit not in the spring and summer only the winter as I have no way of keeping it cool unless I take it with me to the loft which know I will forget to do
I could well be wrong on this though and maybe flax is ok in summer
I tend to use them moulting time but leave it at the loft

Sure flax goes off as well, could be wrong though

[king]

I sometimes used a bit of linseed when moulting. Have given nothing for the moult this year, just fed them as normal this year and they look perfect.

[king]

I sometimes used a bit of linseed when moulting. Have given nothing for the moult this year, just fed them as normal this year and they look perfect.

That multi task is so varied probably covers most requirements
Mine are on VL moulting mixed with a protein based Bamfords mix the wizard heavy
The look really well but they should do or we are in a lot of trouble

Your right Neil. Moulting is a natural process and birds shouldn't need anything extra, just good sound corn. I recall an old article by Jim Biss where he give just the basic care ( no treatments) over the Winter. He said if they had anything wrong/weakness with them, it would show over the Winter, and they could be removed before the next season.

[Buster121]

He is looking very well Murray.

Looking very well indeed