FallingStarRoller
2 posts
Apr 30, 2006
9:12 PM
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hey what is the best food and cheap to feed my rollers... my roller are doing about a good 5ft rolls(there 5month old and i fly only 3 because the rest i being breed.). but they will fly for 1hrs and will rolls for the first 25min but after 25min they will start to fly around in circle. can you guys help me out on what food to feed them and is there any Diet i need to put on them...
Thanks,
Yee
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nicksiders
553 posts
Apr 30, 2006
10:48 PM
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If you are wanting to use a single grain that is cheap, whole wheat would be your best bet.
I don't like using a single grain to maintian them. I will feed then milo and wheat 50/50 about four days out from competition. I maintain them on safflower, wheat, milo, and austrian peas. I have equal amounts by weight. A fifty pound bag of each will last 45 kit birds awhile and the total cost is under 50 bucks. I also give them minerals and vitamins in their water and make it available everyday. The reason I prefer austrian peas is because the are smaller than other peas and have more than 20% protien. I like the oiliness of safflower and they seem to like it better than flax. The oil gives them fat for energy.
I maintain my breeders on the four grains mentioned and I keep red grit in front of them all of the time.
Another method I have tried is feed them one of the four grains each day for four days. That way I believe I was stopping them from selecting their favorite grain(s) out of the mixture and the more aggresive birds denying others from getting a balance of nutrician. It worked and I will probably do it on a perminent bases.
Each family of birds react differently to diet and you just have to keep tweeking the feed until it works for your family of birds.
......BUT, if you only want to use a single grain that is cheap then whole wheat is probably your best bet. I never use corn of any kind on my birds. I seem to have cankers and they seem to loose velocity. They also pop higher in the sky, like 700 feet plus. I like to keep my birds around the 400 to 600 foot mark.
Just my 50 cent worth
Nick
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Velo99
404 posts
May 01, 2006
4:52 AM
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Yee
When you buy seed, make sure you have good containers to put it in. If you buy bags of different grains you have to have a bin for each. I feed wild bird seed/pellets on an every day basis. 2 containers. I use the pellets instead of peas. Pellets raise the protien level of the mix as well as all of the vitamins it has that can`t be found in grain. WBS also has grit. Makes my feeding program much easier.
yits
v99
Last Edited by Velo99 on May 01, 2006 4:53 AM
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dave
83 posts
May 01, 2006
8:31 AM
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Yee, how did you come up with fallingstarroller? Sounds like one of my rollers I had, lol. Where are you from? If you are close then maybe I can help you out.
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FallingStarRoller
3 posts
May 01, 2006
5:34 PM
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will i first i made this name up like a couple of month ago and was about to use it for my own Bloodline, but i been spending some time on the Net and found a site it already have this name... it call FallingStar Loft... and so i was like WTF damn they already made this name up F**K... but it a pretty cool name for Rollers.... will im ganna email them to see if it alright for me to call my rollers that name cause their is call Falling Star Loft and im ganna call mines Falling Star Roller...
Yee
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FallingStarRoller
4 posts
May 01, 2006
5:35 PM
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so Dave where R u from and how many FallingStarRollers u have... im located in Fresno CA..
Yee
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upcd
246 posts
May 02, 2006
3:49 AM
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I think if you have good roller to begin with. You can feed them good feed and still get the roll. ideas? Cheapest is scatch. 3 grains corn, milo, wheat. 8%.High protien add game bird at 27%
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Velo99
405 posts
May 02, 2006
4:57 AM
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Upcd,
Why would you feed corn? Scratch might be cheap but it isn`t all that great. Cracked corn has been known to cause canker. When I feed corn I feed popcorn right outta the bag from the grocery store. The old timey kind not microwave. 27% crumbles is way too high for flyers. Flyers diet should be in the 12-14 % range.
MTC
v99
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dave
84 posts
May 02, 2006
9:02 AM
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I'm from your area. You can email me at: new2guest@hotmail.com
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siddiqir
211 posts
May 02, 2006
9:21 AM
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I think the cheapest would be wild bird mix from wal-mart. Should be around 7 dollars for 50 lbs. I spend $35 dollars for wheat/milo/peas 50 lbs bag of each and that last for many months. I have very small operation less then 35 birds.
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FallingStarRoller
7 posts
May 02, 2006
5:36 PM
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v99 what do u mean by feeding them a diet 12-14%.. how u know it 12-14% what feed do u give to ur Birds... can u tell me what ur useing.. and what kind of feed u giving to u rollers... and how much...
Yee
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Velo99
407 posts
May 02, 2006
7:02 PM
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Ok Yee
12-14% refers to the protien quantity of the seed or mix. Most pigeon mixes are 14-17 percent. 17 is fine for breeders. It`ll make flyers fly long and high. I buy the Purina Pigeon Pellets. 18 percent in the winter and 14 in the summer. I can`t get all the varieties of peas so I use the pellets as a substitute.
I use wild bird seed from Walmart. I feed 1 cup of WBS and 1/2 cup of pellets for 18-20 birds. I cut back to a bit under a cup of the same mix for 10 birds. With the moult coming up the oily seeds in the mix are good to promote the feather growth.
Good Luck
v99
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GREED FOR SPEED
1 post
May 03, 2006
5:35 AM
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Hey my friend I believe you should not worry right now about the feed or how thier working, the birds you say are only 5 months old,take away about 2 months from them hatching that makes them about 3 months on the wing, thats early.Let them mature first in mental and physical first,then play with the feed a 12%-14% portioned of course for each bird, mix more or less wheat or barley to help out with thier fly time and performance,I give them drink of water and take it away. You should see these birds perform on thier best or thier own merits,keeping in mind the wheather factors. GOOD LUCK and THE BEST to YOU Richard Luna
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