S.B.S. Rare Variety Show & Kingdom Of Fife Young Bird Show
26th May 2018
Venue: Hayfield Community Centre, Hayfield Road, Kirkcaldy KY2 5DG
Contact details: S.B.S. Rares : Stevie 07756 444 884
Kingdom of Fife: Linda 07734 314 115
Forth Valley B.S. officials appointed at the December AGM are as follows,
Chairman, Treasurer , Dave Dolton
Secretary, Show Manager, Billy Aitken,
Contact details, 50 Mavisbank Avenue, Shieldhill ,Falkirk, Fk1 2ex
Phone. 01324 875830, email, [email protected]
Show Secretary , Bill Stott.
Meetings are held on the second Sunday of each month except January and July , in the Bowhouse Community Centre , Grangemouth . At 7:30pm.
Check out the More page photos of SBS Show winners
Show Secretaries
Just a reminder to all show Secertaries that you need to contact Defra to inform them of your Open Show
S.B.S. Annual Open Show
Saturday 11th August 2018
VENUE
Strathbrock Community Centre 189A West Main StreerBroxburn EH52 5LH
The Next SBS General Council Meeting is on Sunday March 4th 2018
Show Committee meeting at 1 pm
Victoria Halls
Dunblane
Article below taken from the SBS Magazine
December 2016
2018 Membership is now due for renewal and can be paid to8
James Muir please note the new fees as follows:
2017 Annual membership
Adult £20.00, Junior Membership £.10
P/ship's (same address) £30
P/Ship's (separate address) Multiples of £20
S.B.S. Rare Variety Show & Kingdom Of Fife Young Bird Show
26th May 2018
Venue: Hayfield Community Centre, Hayfield Road, Kirkcaldy KY2 5DG
Contact details: S.B.S. Rares : Stevie 07756 444 884
Kingdom of Fife: Linda 07734 314 115
The Next SBS General Council Meeting is on Sunday March 4th 2018
Show Committee meeting at 1 pm
Victoria Halls
Dunblane
Article below taken from the SBS Magazine
December 2016
2018 Membership is now due for renewal and can be paid to8
James Muir please note the new fees as follows:
2017 Annual membership
Adult £20.00, Junior Membership £.10
P/ship's (same address) £30
P/Ship's (separate address) Multiples of £20
BREEDING WINNERS
The title is slightly misleading, it should read trying to breed winners.
It sounds easy enough and not too complicated. You have checked the flight for a couple of decent looking birds, paired them together and hey presto, look at the quality of the chicks. They should do very well on the show bench.
Another winner from Joe Blogs stud of wonderful Budgies!!!!!!!!!!!
If only it was that simple and easy. Perhaps it can be, if our preparation is planned and our husbandry within the birdroom is of the highest standard.
Where do we start? Choosing the breeding team for me never ends, I am always looking for quality birds that have a certain feature that will enhance the overall appearance and move the birds to a higher standard.
From the moment chicks are weaned and placed into stock cages, the process of looking out for stock birds and obviously show birds is now a matter of course.
Building up
towards the breeding season, what is the best manner in trying to get the birds
into condition?
Some fanciers separate cocks from hens and swear by it. My preparation is fairly logical and simple. For my first twelve pairs I will gather what I believe to be the best fifteen hens and place them in stock cages, at least three weeks prior to being paired. Soft food is given daily with added nutrients that I believe assist with fertility. As time passes a decision needs to be taken if this first choice of birds are indeed fit and eager enough to breed. If so the challenge begins to find the right partner for each hen.
One point to ponder over, if we have purchased an outcross, how best to use it. Personally, I would have two sisters of similar quality that I would use. Pairing one of them and hopefully getting two rounds of fertile eggs and fostering them, before I move the cock on to the other sister. At this time patience is required and not to be in too much of a hurry.
This year I have been lucky enough to obtain two related cocks and I will use them, to, two related hens. This ensures that the desired features will be hopefully available in more depth. Looking ahead to the following year the choices available (assuming the required features are evident) will be even better towards breeding a quality line of birds.
However let’s assume that we have chosen several birds of both sexes for scrutiny from our existing stock and placed them in show cages. We are now looking for complimentary features between birds and hopefully minimise choosing a pair that carry the same fault.
What dictates our choice of partner, pedigree most certainly, a certain feature such as width of skull, capping across and over the eye, depth of mask and spot size, or width of shoulder?
Most of these will come into our analysis of what makes the best possible pairings. Once you decided what’s best, complete your nest cards prepare the breeding cage and nest box and pray that all goes according to plan.
Robert N