Longroller
GOLD MEMBER
198 posts
Sep 12, 2009
6:42 PM
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----------I have put this on other sites...go to a local wildlife office..call first...most sell 50# bags of wild bird mix which has an extreme amount of black sunflower seed plus lots of other stuff the birds like...most know flax and sunflower seed is fantastic for molt...oil for feathers. I get my 50# bags for $10. per bag. I mix as much as I need or want..and the feather quality I end up with is some of the best in the country. Just a thought...try it...
De Oppresso Liber
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donnie james
721 posts
Sep 12, 2009
7:10 PM
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i have to try it.................donny james
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Sound Rollers
38 posts
Sep 13, 2009
4:27 AM
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I wish this site had some way to save posts like this to a personal folder for future reference, this is great stuff.
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John
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Windjammer Loft
954 posts
Sep 13, 2009
5:17 AM
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Sound Rollers.....all you have to do is copy and paste to "MS WORD" and save it to your file
Fly High and Roll On
Paul
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Sound Rollers
39 posts
Sep 13, 2009
8:05 AM
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Thanks Paul, I was thinking it would be cool if we could save to file under our profiles.
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John
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steve49
247 posts
Sep 15, 2009
5:51 PM
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will pigeons eat black sunflower with the shell? i thought that sunflower has to be husked for pigeons
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Steve in Blue Point, NY
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gentle johnnie
87 posts
Sep 15, 2009
6:05 PM
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I have been useing wild bird seed all breeding season mix with Milo and wheat birds will fight for black sun flower seeds mine love it. GOD BLESS !!!----------
Gentle Johnnie "Angels of the Sky Loft"
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brudahpete
475 posts
Sep 16, 2009
8:13 AM
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Mine love the sunflower seeds! Who'd a thunk? :)
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http://www.freewebs.com/brudahpete/
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DeepSpinLofts
1573 posts
Sep 16, 2009
4:23 PM
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I buy the Pennington Wild Bird Seed from Walmart Supercenters and shake out the sunflower seeds (with shells) through a strainer. I then mix it with other grains & seeds.
It cost about $13 dollars and change for the Pennington Wild Bird Seed.
Ingredients include: Milo, White Millet, Wheat, Sunflower Seed, Red Millet, Safflower Seed and Vitamins.
Good feed for pigeons!
Marcus
Deep Spin Lofts
Last Edited by on Sep 16, 2009 4:25 PM
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steve49
249 posts
Sep 16, 2009
6:52 PM
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i would think so.
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Steve in Blue Point, NY
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DeepSpinLofts
1574 posts
Sep 16, 2009
8:31 PM
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You guys feed birds sunflower seeds with the shells on them?
I don't like to feed sunflower seeds to my birds.
Marcus
Deep Spin Lofts
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RodSD
347 posts
Sep 16, 2009
10:31 PM
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I think one university research shows that wild birds love to eat sunflower seeds compared to other seeds. They will eat those first. I suppose those birds know the caloric value of sunflower seeds.
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Sound Rollers
44 posts
Sep 17, 2009
3:58 AM
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I found this "Many birds that eat sunflowers seeds crack the seed and eat the actual inner seed, house finches, cardinals, gold finches, chickadees and others they still swallow a few pieces of shell. Some birds swallow the whole seed ; blue jays, other jays, crows, even doves will swallow smaller sunflower seeds. And of course larger 'ground birds' or fowl; chickens, prarie chickens, quail, grouse, pea cocks, turkeys , geese. Birds don't chew their food, they swallow it whole or at least whole pieces they pull from a larger piece. The food is 'chewed' in the crop, a muscular sack between mouth and stomach, by grit, sand, small pebbles they swallow. The pellet contains some of that worn out grit as well as the stuff the crop couldn't grind or the stomach acids dissolve. So, any bird that eats sunflower seeds will have a pellet with some sunflower parts in it"
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John
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JDA
GOLD MEMBER
498 posts
Sep 17, 2009
9:16 AM
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John....Longroller wrote this post to let everyone know how well the oil in black sunflower seed help and makes the feather quality the best he seen.Did you read his post? Did anyone look at his profile? I thank that should tell it all on his knowledge on these birds.Thanks JDA
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Sound Rollers
45 posts
Sep 17, 2009
10:37 AM
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JDA, yes I read his post, I was backing it up, I was thinking just because pigeons don't crack the seed some people might think its not good for them, I totally agree with long rollers and plan on feeding seeds to my birds.
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John
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Electric-man
2453 posts
Sep 17, 2009
12:32 PM
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I've been using it for 5 or 6 yrs now. They love the black oil seeds and eat them first. My breeders are very healthy and always have been.
They have to be ok for them, I have hunted dove my whole life over sunflower patches. Cant hardly shoot them away from them.
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Val
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gotspin7
2532 posts
Sep 17, 2009
5:07 PM
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I feed my birds chicken scratch and they even cluck, cluck, cluck... too..
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Sal Ortiz
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brudahpete
476 posts
Sep 18, 2009
8:56 AM
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My pigeons leave corn alone until the temps get to a consistent 45 degrees and lower. Scratch only in winter for me. I've got a feed store here that gets me a milo/millet 50/50 mix that is the bomb for long flying times. I have to fly in the mornings or there are a few that end up spending the night elsewhere.
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http://www.freewebs.com/brudahpete/
Last Edited by on Sep 18, 2009 8:57 AM
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