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MIL wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 3:03 pm In that instance I’d limit the amount, increasing to a peak on Thursday using Barley as the moderator (sprinting)

Murray wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 7:54 am Going back about 25 years ago, in New Zealand, one year I took the youngsters to work with me every morning. I left at 5.30 for a 6 am start so it was pitch black when I left. I used a torch to hamper them.
I would put a handful of yummy mix, sunflower, safflower, canary etc on the shelf for their breakfast when they returned.
As soon as it got light I would put them up, they would zoom home, about 18 miles.
In the afternoon they were kicked out for a fly then given their proper feed.
One day I had just let them go and came in to be told my wife was on the phone. She told me there was a huge thunderstorm out there and I must not let them go!

As she said it the sky opened, I thought I'd never see them again.
Half an hour later the phone rang. It was absolutely pouring at home, the youngsters had arrived in a bunch and were in eating their breakfast.

Murray wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 9:42 am Yea I know, I was just suddenly taken with an urge to tell a story.

Murray wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 9:42 am Yea I know, I was just suddenly taken with an urge to tell a story.

NeilA wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 3:25 pm

MIL wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 3:03 pm In that instance I’d limit the amount, increasing to a peak on Thursday using Barley as the moderator (sprinting)

Would you feed once Mike and remove say50 per cent barley Monday to 10 per cent barley Thursday ?
I tell you why I ask my club mate runs a shop one of the open all day ones and is struggling to get a system
Staff let him down so he’s doing all hours