By Michael Feeney
This article was done in March 2015 and in this article of the series I describe my breeding plans and how the first young have come through to weaning. I have also discussed my feeding methods that I will be using. Many roads lead to Rome and this is simply the system I have adopted to suit my personal circumstances. Each to their own and all that. As always I can be contacted at the details below if any would like to. Since my last article I have been making minor modifications to the loft. I intend to close it in completely over the next year or so. And getting the ventilation right over this time as well I hope. The stock section has been enlarged again after I made it smaller. I have yet to make the new boxes for it. This will be done when I’m finished breeding, I will not upset the birds breeding any more than necessary.
finished breeding, I will not upset the birds breeding any more than necessary. All I have really done to date is to make section from 4ft wide back to over 6ft to accommodate the present stock numbers. There is also a 4ft section next to it in which I have built and placed a set of pipo boxes that are 300mm square. This will be used for birds allowed to pair naturally that are intended to be raced. There will be no breeding from birds that have not flown some races and come home in good time. In this way I hope in the future to retire only birds to stock that have flown from Barcelona or done something of note. This I think will take some time and hopefully will eventually happen.
I have been feeding all birds the same with 50/50 Breed and Wean and Start Plus from Versa Laga with Homoform and garlic oil and minerals mixed together. I also have used G10 pellets as a hopper feed. This means that there is always food present for the birds. This will be the way I operate in the future from here on out. Hopper feeding the pellets with the mix fed at night to appetite. In this way I hope that with no rationing the birds will grow naturally and hopefully have no setbacks..
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Another experiment I am doing is to do with the feeders that I have. These have had no training to date and I will expect these to also journey towards Barcelona. How far the get again only time will tell but I am really interested to see how these progress or if they do at all. All I will tell you at the moment is that they are not of marathon origin and I am intrigued to see if being treated the same as the marathon birds can come they come through that test as well. More on this next time.
So until next time
Michael
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