Management Methods
My breeding season starts
earlier than most as I use lighting and heating to bring them in condition
quicker. I use Ce-De softfood as I did with my Borders. I've tried others but
found Ce-De to be the best. I feed sprouted soaked seed during the breeding
season and throughout the moult. My greenfood varies from lots of wild
plants, dandelions, meadowsweet, plantain, wild teazle, rape leaves etc to
spinach, leaf-beet, dark cabbage and broccoli (although Im starting to use
broccoli less and less favoring the other greens instead!) Spinach is full of
iron and my birds love it. I occasionally use sprout tops but I've stopped
giving lettuce as it has hardly any nutritional value. I don't feed
cuttlefish but prefer to give my birds a soluble calcium supplement instead. I
feed grit as required and add charcoal to feeding chicks. My birds get apple
every day when feeding and two or three times a week in winter with greens
pro-rata. I've showed my birds for two seasons now and met some good genuine
people who will help you if they can, my first season I bred 70 chicks and did
very well on the showbench.
Inside my birdroom