If during the season you could only feed once a day due to shifts
Would you feed a set amount of mix each day or a limited amount increased end of the week with a tray of barley left for the say for sprinting or say beans for distance
Feeding once a day
Would you feed once Mike and remove say50 per cent barley Monday to 10 per cent barley Thursday ?
I tell you why I ask my club mate runs a shop one of the open all day ones and is struggling to get a system
Staff let him down so he’s doing all hours
Going back about 25 years ago, in New Zealand, one year I took the youngsters to work with me every morning. I left at 5.30 for a 6 am start so it was pitch black when I left. I used a torch to hamper them.
I would put a handful of yummy mix, sunflower, safflower, canary etc on the shelf for their breakfast when they returned.
As soon as it got light I would put them up, they would zoom home, about 18 miles.
In the afternoon they were kicked out for a fly then given their proper feed.
One day I had just let them go and came in to be told my wife was on the phone. She told me there was a huge thunderstorm out there and I must not let them go!
As she said it the sky opened,
I thought I'd never see them again.
Half an hour later the phone rang. It was absolutely pouring at home, the youngsters had arrived in a bunch and were in eating their breakfast.

I would put a handful of yummy mix, sunflower, safflower, canary etc on the shelf for their breakfast when they returned.
As soon as it got light I would put them up, they would zoom home, about 18 miles.
In the afternoon they were kicked out for a fly then given their proper feed.
One day I had just let them go and came in to be told my wife was on the phone. She told me there was a huge thunderstorm out there and I must not let them go!



As she said it the sky opened,

Half an hour later the phone rang. It was absolutely pouring at home, the youngsters had arrived in a bunch and were in eating their breakfast.
Greetings from the land down under. 
Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for verily, he shall not be disappointed.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for verily, he shall not be disappointed.
He can only feed once a day though Murray he’s not home in daylight in the evening so it’s more to do with having a chance to feed before work and if it should be measured or hopper or on a sliding scale using barleyMurray wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 7:54 am Going back about 25 years ago, in New Zealand, one year I took the youngsters to work with me every morning. I left at 5.30 for a 6 am start so it was pitch black when I left. I used a torch to hamper them.![]()
I would put a handful of yummy mix, sunflower, safflower, canary etc on the shelf for their breakfast when they returned.
As soon as it got light I would put them up, they would zoom home, about 18 miles.
In the afternoon they were kicked out for a fly then given their proper feed.
One day I had just let them go and came in to be told my wife was on the phone. She told me there was a huge thunderstorm out there and I must not let them go!
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As she said it the sky opened,I thought I'd never see them again.
Half an hour later the phone rang. It was absolutely pouring at home, the youngsters had arrived in a bunch and were in eating their breakfast.
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Yes Neil, I think that's as good a structure as you can put in place given the boundaries he's operating with