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Lovely looking youngsters there Murray. Look really well. Difficult to pick any out as being better than others.

Murray wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 6:44 am

Buster121 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 5:45 am What a cracking bunch Murray, the blue w/f and mealy stand out for me

Yer a good judge, Buster. two absolutely cracking good babies.

The wee mealy is a little darling. Yesterday I was standing by the sputnik calling them in. Something landed on my back them flew into the sputnik. It was her! It is a full sister to the mealy cock that won a race last season. Half red Jos Thone', half my inbred Jansen x Van Loons.
The little white flight Is by a young Heremans cock out of another hen from my family. It is very very good, and they just hatched another pair.

Murray wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 6:44 am

Buster121 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 5:45 am What a cracking bunch Murray, the blue w/f and mealy stand out for me

Yer a good judge, Buster. two absolutely cracking good babies.

I try

Murray wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 6:52 am Some small ones that I found out if their boxes and lifted up when I opened the door today

The cheq in perch on left and the one nearest on right, way to go

This is an old thread that I found today.
My pigeons are hatching babies in a staggered formation after spending the winter in Bealiba. I put rings on another two today.
Just as I said a couple of days ago about the pigeons demanding peas at about the 7 day old point, now they are desperate for grit.
The wee Melbourne hen spent the winter roosting in a gap above a rafter in the chook shed. She had gone pretty much feral.
This afternoon when I was in the loft she was hanging out of her box staring at me. She wanted grit. I got the grit bucket and put a scoop, a big tablespoon, in each box.
They attacked that and I went on with the jobs.
10 or 15 minutes later I went back in the loft and she dived out of her box onto the front shelf beside me Then she marched up and down beside me. She's not tame, she arrived as a 2 year old stray, but I picked her up off the shelf and put her back in her box. Then she made it quite clear she wanted more grit!
I went and got the bucket and put a generous heap in her box. She and the White Flight Thone' got stuck into it....
I know that there are different views on the importance of shell grit for pigeons. I won't comment.
If you have doubts, come and talk to my pigeons

When we took the unexpected trip to Bendigo to get my eye treated today, I went around to the grain store and got a sack of the red pigeon grit. I was down to the last cupful and rationing it out, until our expected Bendigo trip on Friday.
They can smell it! Surely!
I took the bag of grit out of the car, put some in the bucket and went out to the loft. When I opened the door i had every pigeon on the floor jumping up and down and then jumping up to their boxes excitedly waiting for it.
I put a spoonful in every box and they fell on it like kids in a sweet shop! It's just crushed sea shells with pink mineral powder added, but they are mad on it. I had three hens lay in the last day, and they were very keen. The calcium, obviously. And the four pairs feeding youngsters, they were chasing me
As I read, the reason grit is not promoted widely is because it is heavy, bulky, and there is not a lot of profit in it. You can charge a fortune for chemicals in a 100 gram pot.
I will happily cart home a 20 kilo bag of shell grit. I think it is better for them.

Our breeders get grit everyday i'd say its one of the most important thing to give in the breeding season specially for the hens they need the minerals for the egg's

grit is good for racing pigeons because it helps with digestion and provides minerals:
Digestion
Pigeons don't have teeth, so they swallow their food whole, including seeds with hard outer shells. Grit in their gizzard helps grind up the food.
Minerals
Grit contains minerals like calcium, which is important for a pigeon's skeleton, and trace elements that help develop muscles.
Balanced diet
A balanced diet is essential for racing pigeons to perform well. Other factors to consider include the quality of carbohydrates, the levels of omega-3 fatty acids, and vitamin levels.
Some ingredients commonly found in pigeon grit include:
Oyster shell, Charcoal, Salt, Granite grit, Bone meal, Limestone flour, Powdered gentian, Venetian red, Anise seed, and Sulphur.
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Spieker-Loft wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 10:00 am Our breeders get grit everyday i'd say its one of the most important thing to give in the breeding season specially for the hens they need the minerals for the egg's

Agree Fresh daily for stock
My cocks only have a 60 ml measure of beyers grit and mineral after there evening feed it has to be cleared in 30 min then I remove any