If your pidgy is eating the saflower and peas first, then its craving protien seemingly. maybe also add black oil sunflower seeds,crushed peanuts, beans and legums, for more protein. otherwise any pigeon mix will do, even for non racers etc, but best found was:
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manna pro" poultry conditioner". chicken layer is fine but unless breeding, it must be mixed with decent scratch at least (can cause kidney trouble for non breeding hens and non growing ypung over years of constant using only), and find using natural layer to work better, but not grow out squeakers/squab as fast and robust/healthy to go. best scratch I've seen here was:
*"co-op premium 7-grain scratch feed" INGREDIENTS: cracked yellow corn, wheat, milo, oats, black oil sunflower seed, flint corn, canadian peas, vegetable oil. Course my many breeds had all ate at degrees, dandilions dirt and many types of bugs out of air, off of, and out of ground. Rock doves/pigeons being pure grain seed eaters is a myth, and i think why my birds don't have troubles most say about, as see even road kill/insects in being eaten at from rollers of friend, and from ferals etc also). Also eating greens (dandilions and collard type greens growing wild as weeds or from more recognised cultivated sourses are favs), berries,fruits, nuts, and many wild flowers and seeds seem to make up whole diets of especially left to totally free fly breeders (breeding birds are best at accepting and seeking out new foods to try). you could use small mealworms also, just leaving small shallow tub of open for them to eat as want.
Corn or carbs n starches are important for stored longe term energy and fat, especially in winter time/chilly. most other roller keepers are against corn cause corn seems to stop one of two types of rolling causes from making bird go into fit of epilepsy (its proven look it up before you object, please). any basic wild bird seed, let alone dove mix wilk let a pigeon be healthy for year even temp, but pennington has agreat ones for multiple birds that are pretty complete basic feeds cheap (some have vitamins and minerals added as well as, fruits, nuts even etc.
Budgie or "parakeet" feed, can be ok but too rich and fatty for, though the kibble or pelleted feed without seed seem pretty complete (my free range flying budgies, tiels etc all at above mentioned feed items as well), but myringnecks did so much better on budge feed, and non did well from tiel or same or up in sized types. i think thatsall my person experience in rescue, vet, pets, and of others and generational ferals, so you can take or leave as please, just trying to offer ideas, as i have mostly thirty, one forty, one fifty, and one hundred foot, rollers that don't bump (yet), and breed like rats, and haven't lost one in years to BOPs (having BOPsthat live in trees everywhere around me like squirrels), so hopefully doing something right.
