FARMA Breeding Pigeon Diet - 20kg

The FARMA Breeding Pigeon Diet is a twenty-three variety grain mix for the breeding season — the point in the year when a pair is producing crop milk for squabs and needs more protein than a maintenance ration gives.

Key Features

• Twenty-three seed varieties, including buckwheat, canary seed, wheat, corn and the millets
• FARMA rates it for breeding pairs and for young birds still growing
• The legume and pulse content carries the protein that crop milk and feather growth draw on
• 20 kg sack
• Made in Greece by Farma Friends, a pet-food maker near Thessaloniki that has been blending seed since 1997

Feeding

• Move pairs onto the breeding mix a couple of weeks before you pair up, not on the day the first egg appears
• A pair rearing two squabs can eat close to double what a resting bird does. Do not ration them now
• Calcium and grit are critical through lay. A hen short of calcium draws it out of her own skeleton

Good To Know

• Breeding feed given to birds that are not breeding just puts weight on. Move the loft back to a maintenance mix once the youngsters are weaned
• Soft-shelled eggs, a hen that goes down after laying, or splay-legged squabs point to a calcium or management problem worth a vet's opinion
• Mouldy grain is dangerous to any pigeon and especially to squabs. Keep the sack sealed, cool and off the floor
• The published ingredient list names some of the twenty-three varieties rather than all of them. The sack carries the full declaration