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    Racing Pigeon Fanciers Secret Weapons
    Racing Pigeon Fanciers Secret Weapons
    Racing Pigeon Fanciers Secret Weapons
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    Racing Pigeon Fanciers Secret Weapons

    By The Racing Pigeon Enthusiast

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    This Book will give You the Edge over Your Competition and show You how to Properly Fuel Your Racing Pigeons and will show You what many Fanciers Overlook.Nutrition Feeding Secrets That will have your Racing Pigeons FLYING at Lightining Speed and in TOP HEALTH.

    Facts is,It Does Not Matter IF You Have The Fastest Most Expensive Bird in The World, If Your Racers are not Properly Fueled,They Will not Fly at Their Peak Physical Performance.

    Inadequate nutrition will Result in poor health ,Lower resistance to disease,Compromise growth,Prolong recovery from exertion or illness ,Decrease reproductive performance.

    Have Your Birds Flying at Full Octane! IN TOP HEALTH,STRONG and at LIGHTNING SPEED!

    Learn How to Separate Yourself from Your Competitors by Properly Fueling Your Pigeons and Give Your Birds a Head Start in Their Next Race.A Properly Fed Pigeon Will Experience a Diminished Focus on Survival and Exert All Attention Toward Reaching its Destination. In other words, Well Fed Pigeons Win Competitions.

    Consider this Your Secret Weapon,Advanced Nutritional Information…How to Boost Your Pigeons to Peak Physical Condition and Maximize Your Pigeon's Championship Potential in Days without Changing Your Loft Management or Training and Conditioning Rituals!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRacing Pigeon Enthusiast
    Release dateDec 7, 2017
    ISBN9781386310938
    Racing Pigeon Fanciers Secret Weapons

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      Racing Pigeon Fanciers Secret Weapons - The Racing Pigeon Enthusiast

      Table of Contents

      Racing fancier’s secrets-nutrition | Consider this book your secret weapon

      Anaerobic

      Aerobic

      Hemp Seed

      Racing Mix

      One night in the basket

      Two nights in the basket

      Racing fancier’s secrets-nutrition

      Consider this book your secret weapon

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      Contents Page

      Introduction  4

      Energy Overview  4

      •  Quality Energy  5

      •  How Pigeons function  6

      •  Energy Systems  7

      •  Seasons  8

      Anatomy of a Pigeon  9

      •  Major Muscles  9

      •  Muscle Fibres  10

      •  Flight Performance  13

      Nutritional Components  16

      •  Carbohydrates  18

      •  Fats  21

      •  Proteins  25

      •  Vitamins  26

      •  Minerals  28

      •  Other Chemicals  31

      Food Nutrition  36

      •  Flax Seed  38

      •  Hemp  38

      •  Cabbage Seed  39

      •  Rapeseed  39

      •  Sunflower Seed  40

      •  Safflower  41

      •  Barley  41

      •  Corn  42

      •  Oats  43

      •  Peanuts  44

      •  Soy Beans  45

      •  Peas  46

      •  Dari/Milo  47

      •  Rice  48

      •  Wheat  48

      •  Garlic  49

      •  Elderberry  50

      •  Algae  51

      •  Oregano  52

      •  Yeast  53

      •  Grit  54

      Disease  55

      •  Ornithose Complex  55

      •  Coccidiosis  57

      •  Canker  58

      •  Haemoproteus  59

      •  E. coli  59

      •  Use a Veterinarian  64

      •  Give your birds a fighting chance  65

      Various Mixes  65

      •  Breeding  65

      •  Moult  68

      •  Racing  69

      •  Dried Seed  73

      •  Hot Weather  75

      •  Cold Weather  76

      Basket Nutrition  77

      Introduction

      Firstly, I would like to thank you for purchasing our book we hope you find it very helpful to you and your racing pigeons as their health is of utter most importance. Here is just a quick break down of what you can expect from your purchase.

      Our main goal is to give you a complete but simple analysis of many aspects regarding the nutritional diet for your racing pigeons. This book will cover the essentials, where they can be found and what they are used for, we will cover the do’s and don’ts of nutrition as well.

      We will cover great many foods that can be used to get the maximum potential out of your racing pigeons, and will look at what food mixes will get the best results depending on certain variables such as weather conditions and race distance.

      I know all this sounds very general but you can take it easy, everything will be very encompassing but also very easy to digest and understand.

      Energy Overview

      Knowledge regarding the nutritional diets of racing pigeons are advancing every year. Many years ago, it was not unusual for many fanciers to just feed peas and wheat to their racing pigeons. It now seems incredible to us that fanciers would think that a diet made up of one, two or even three seeds would provide a complete nutrition for our racing pigeons. It’s now known that it is virtually impossible to supply all the nutrients that racing pigeons require if fed only a dry seed diet, even if the variety of grains given is quite large.

      A poor nutritional diet will suppress the racing pigeon’s ability to resist disease, compromise growth, prolong recovery from exertion or illness and decrease reproductive performance. However, it should be remembered that what the astute fancier is aiming for is not simply to avoid any obvious health problem but rather he wants the best diet possible so that his racing pigeons are at their best competitively.

      So, first we need to get familiar with the one underlying factor in racing – energy. We need to find out what energy sources will gain the maximum from our racing pigeons, you need to consider how racing pigeons function, what energy systems are used and how to get the best nutritional balance to supply energy for the race duration and your racing pigeons trip home.

      Now in general every organism above plants and algae, need to gain energy from food. To fully exploit this energy for racing pigeons you the fancier almost must become a feeding expert.

      We can only begin the art of good feeding when both the quality of the food is guaranteed, and the flock is healthy. A healthy bowel is required before we can test our feeding systems, because an unhealthy bowel fails to deliver the fuel of good grain to the racing pigeon’s body. Bowel diseases such as E. coli, coccidiosis-an intestinal disease which is widely distributed among pigeons, worms and wet canker all decrease the amount of nutrients entering the body.

      By using the best quality grains and with a healthy race team, you the fancier can now think about a racing mix appropriate for your family of racing pigeons and training methods. The mix you choose must provide a good balance of protein (amino acids) and for this to be achieved at least 8 different grains must be used, though there are other sources of good quality amino acids we will cover later in the book. After you have achieved this balance, the energy content of the mix becomes the most important part of successful feeding.

      Of course, the fuel requirements of the training racing pigeon vary enormously from day to day. It is the constantly changing energy requirements of the competition racing pigeon that makes feeding such a challenge to even the best of us. Your competition racing pigeon will not perform to its fitness level when the energy balance is incorrect. The energy balance must be assessed short term (daily)and long term (weekly) with fit flocks during the race season, because the fitness level will drop both when too much and too little energy is supplied.

      During young bird training special attention must be given to prevent depletion of the energy reserves in the liver and muscle.

      Overfeeding relative to workload (positive energy balance) renders the race team less competitive because of excess baggage (leady). Excess energy is stored as fat with subsequent loss of buoyancy and fitness. It is good to remember that the excess energy of mixes which are too high in protein (legumes) relative to the work load will be stored as fat.

      Under feeding relative to workload (negative energy balance) renders the race team less competitive because of depowering. Feed systems low in energy relative to the workload of the race team will result in the depletion of the energy reserves in the liver, fat and muscle. You the fancier can recognise a race team that is in a negative energy balance by the following signs:

      -No wing flapping in the early morning or after feeding.

      -Not interested in leaving loft or toss basket, lower lid laziness and so on. The race team in negative energy balance (inadequate energy intake relative to the workload) is susceptible to illness, especially respiratory diseases. We should now take a little look at the term buoyancy, most pigeon fanciers should be familiar with it but its included for those that are not;

      Buoyancy is trying to give your pigeons a weightless feel when you hold them. Buoyancy is best achieved by supplying the flock with enough feed (a positive energy balance) to promote vigorous loft flying (or tossing) to maximise lean body mass (i.e. muscle) and minimise body fat. Instead many

      fanciers believe that the best path to buoyancy is to restrict caloric (energy)intake (feed less) to lose excess weight and thereby produce the buoyancy that we see with top form. However, buoyancy is not only weightlessness, but also power, and the buoyancy of fitness only comes when lean body mass

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