YB feeding...............?????

heres one rene,

what corn and how much do members feed their youngbirds...........? ive got mine on vanroebys best all round with golden boost in the morning, 1 oz per bird roughly but i watch how they are eating and when roughly 1/3rd of them go to the drinker i remove the corn trays.

i feed a mix of young bird no maize and a little widowhood mix about an oz a bird im the same as soon as a bird go to the drinker i take all the food away on morning excersice i give them a handfull of food if they comin strait in from excersice if they mess about at any time they will get less food

hi rene, all season ive experrimented with the yb feed as i thought it was why they wouldnt fly for very long around the loft........first i fed them yb mix with no maize, then i changed this and fed 1/3rd yb no maize, 1/3rd widowood and 1/3rd barley, after exercise i fed 1/3rd of the daily amount and then the rest later that evening but all this mixing and chopping and changing made no difference........couple of weeks ago i threw the lot away and bought the vanroebys best all round corn and now im happy with it, all season ive been experrimenting and in the end ive realised the reason why they werent flying is most likely because they are mostly all paired up.

we take water out when fed then put it bk after all foods gone they get 1 oz each

all that experimenting aswell theres a guy over here that seperates his cocks n hen wen he sends em trainin he lets them mix together then sperates on return its a sort of yb widowhood i surpose

now i do what rene does and when about 3/4 birds go to the water i take corn away........at one point they were getting too much so they wouldnt come into the loft and would have to spend the night out....

mine av never spent the nite out unless they lost

ive keep mine out over night 3 times from when thier rangin to the 1st race goin to see ow it works my late father used to do it and said it would make em want to get ome soner as they dont like a night out somthin new to try

i think youngbirds are just a pain in the ass but they gotta be done eh rene

yes mate it has like they say dont knock it till you try it

id try ote with em mate i just think there pain in ass i prefer oldbirds

cant say for definate but i think some of my problems have come about because they were on the darkness system...........this is the first time ive done it since i restarted two years ago and for the first two yb season had them natural, never had any problems either with illness, trapping or flying.

i hate darkness thats why youngbirds pain in the ass but think its goota be done

they say if you want to win/compete they need to be on the dark as naturals wont do anything against dark ybs..........

im tryin it for the 1st time this yaer mate think it the only way forward now goin to do round about nex year

strange thing tho rene, i have two teams of ybs.....one has been on dark for the full amount of time and the younger birds on for a few weeks(ish) and out of the birds ive lost training they are all the older dark birds.......still got all the younger ones.

yeh mine the same dont know why its strange aint it ?