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South Hampshire - December 2016
December fun night again! If you can remember back to this time last year,
the Social and Christmas raffle at Wellow was a great success and it
excelled again with a turnout of 39 members / guests!
(Apologies were received from John Burton, Kevin Burnett and John Mullen).
With
everyone there with a drink in hand we started with the first round of
skittles before the meal, which was being served at 8.30pm.
After
the meal we had part one of the Christmas draw (73 Prizes), followed by the
second round of skittles. This was played with some hilarious moments to say
the least, with Andrew McKendrick the main winner again this year with 22
points (1 less then last year) and Kerry Bellows with 19 points as best
lady, but lost in a play off to Andrew who won the bottle of Champagne.
We
then had part two of the draw until the conclusion of the evening, when Mick
Freeborn, our President, thanked Peter Merritt and his family for all the
hard work they had put in to make the evening a success, especially Pete’s
grandson for picking up and replacing the skittles etc.
Steve
Bailey, our Chairman, then thanked everyone for coming and the staff for the
quality food and service they provided. He said what a good atmosphere there
was in our club these days, which would stand us in good stead for the
future, especially with a good program of events for the coming year.
With
that said we finished the evening after he had wished everyone a good
breeding season, a merry Christmas and a safe journey home.
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South Hampshire - November 2016
Steve
Bailey, our Chairman, opened the meeting and welcomed all there. Apologies
were read out from David Blackeby, Neil Cawley, Martin Terry, John Burton,
Pam Freemantle, Kevin Burnett and Mark Edwards.
With that
Tony Cash explained the format for the evening, with the paperwork I had
printed off to be filled in by the members; they had to assume it was a
sales section and select the best 3 birds they would buy & why.
With all the
10 birds benched and ready for the fun judging, our Judge for the evening
was Andrew McKendrick, so while he was doing his judging we carried on with
club business.
Peter
Merritt started reading out and explaining in detail the Open Show accounts,
which showed an overall profit of £244.33. This was achieved by the
generosity of all who donated birds for the auction and money for various
items on our sponsors’ board, which we run each year for the club.
Steve then
mentioned the London & Southern Counties BS Inter Club competition to be
held on Sunday and thanked all who supported it by entering their birds as
part of the team of 12 classes; he said it would be nice to win this year as
we have been 2nd two years running!
He then
handed over to Tony to say a few words about our last meeting, which was the
Members Show.
Everyone was
asked to keep their paper work on them until part 2 of the evening.
After lots
of lively discussion and the sharing of ideas between the members it was
time for a tea break. Once the break was over I asked Andrew McKendrick to
start part 2 and explain his own choices on which birds he would buy.
He said he
had some heavy feathered birds and needed to refine them, so he picked as
his 1st buy a Grey cock which excelled in style & deportment and
was very tidy and complete, which would help resolve some of his problems.
He carried on with the next 5 birds in his selection explaining in the same
way.
I then asked
various members to come up with their selection and give their reasons for
wanting to buy the birds they had chosen, which was very entertaining as
most members had a go.
As the
evening was drawing to a close it was evident that most members chose
different birds for various reasons, as we all have different problems /
requirements needed in our birds to improve them. So many thanks to all who
brought birds along for the evening.
The evening
was very interesting, especially with comments from the floor as well! It
was an enjoyable evening with most members participating, which is what club
meetings are all about.
After
the raffle Steve Bailey, our Chairman, also thanked the members for bringing
their birds.
He
then closed the meeting and wished everyone a safe journey home. |
South Hampshire October
2016
Jim Lawrie, our Vice Chairman,
opened the meeting and welcomed all there. Apologies were read out for Steve
Bailey, Peter Church, Brian Bailey, Kevin Burnett, Pam Freemantle, Heidi
Patient, John Burton and Peter Merritt.
With all the birds benched and ready
(46), he then handed over to our judge for the evening, Dave Guppy, who had
travelled down from Bath.
Whilst the main judging was being
carried out we dealt with club business and general matters regarding the
sponsors of our Open Show for 2017 and the need to keep them and see if we
could add others to that list! We also hadn’t collected monies for the
adverts in the schedule as most members had contributed to the costs anyway.
(This was discussed at our committee
meeting on 29-9-16 with the decision that members adds be reduced to half
page and free, other adds from breeders that don’t contribute any thing the
our club will be taken out) I read out from a copy of the show accounts I
had, for all there (28) showing a profit of £274.33 on the Open Show.
I also issued a completed 2017
program to members, with some lively discussion regarding the events and
speakers for the year and then it was time for a tea break.
In part two we Dave gave a running
commentary on his decisions and placings of various birds with questions
from the floor.
Our congratulations to the main
winners of the evening:
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Best in Show Neil
Cawley Green cock 301-1
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Best Young Bird in Show Neil
Cawley Green cock 301-1
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Best Opp Sex Young Bird Derek
Ham Cin Cobalt Cock 310-3
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Best Champion FreeBo
5-2
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Best Intermediate Peter
Merritt 17-1
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Best Novice Neil
Cawley 301-1
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Best Beginner Derek
Ham 310-3
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Best Junior N/E
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Best In Show
    
   
Our thanks to Neil Cawley, our chief
steward for the evening, who did a great job working along side Dave Guppy
(Thank you Dave)!
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After the raffle Jim, our Vice
Chairman, thanked Dave for adjudicating and not accepting any ‘expenses’ and
all of the members for bringing their birds. He then closed the meeting and
wished everyone a safe journey home. |
South Hampshire September 2016
All were welcomed (39) at
the BBQ at Peter Merritt’s house, which started from 6.30pm. Apologies were
received from Mark Edwards and John Burton.
Tables, chairs & a gazebo were set up in the garden with some extra
lighting, as the evenings’ close-in a lot earlier now.
Peter
& Chris were well prepared / organised again this year, with mouth watering
sausages, extra burgers (as he run out last year – they were so delicious)
and chicken legs.
There
were various dishes to go with the meals, including coleslaw, rice, pickled
onions, potato salad and a mixed salad of tomatoes, lettuce, etc.
The
deserts were equally mouth watering! Everyone sat down together for a
lovely social evening (including the free drinks) all out of club funds, as
we are trying to give back something to the members!
   
We
also held a raffle, which this year raised £60 (all helps)
 
We
all thanked Chris & Peter for their hard work in cooking / preparing the
food and also, a big ‘thank you’ to all members that attended - it was
great! (Shame about the weather)
 
The
BBQ finished at approx 8.40pm, with members starting to drift off
and
all were wished a
safe journey home. |
South Hampshire
August 2016
Jim
Lawrie, our Vice Chairman, opened the meeting and welcomed all there.
Apologies were read out from John Burton, Bryon Shaw, John Mullen, Peter
Church, Brian Bailey and Steve Bailey. (25 Members Attended)
With all the Unshowable
competition birds’ benched (14) and ready for discussion later on, we
started on how we were going to run / organise our Open Show. We had a
shows’ committee meeting on Thursday 7th July at Peter Merritt’s,
so I read out some of the main items discussed, which were important:
The main thing was that we are
in the sports hall this year, owing to the other 2 halls being refurbished.
Mick Freeborn came up front to
explain the benefits of the new hall regarding space and booking in and
out. He said there was improved lighting, which was good for judging, and
also that it was better then the old hall in lots of ways. He asked that we
all helped with sweeping up the seed during and at the end and that we would
then all have a good show.
After lots of lively discussion
re procedures regarding the Open Show and team duties it was time for a tea
break with more discussions carrying on in various groups.
The main items that we
discussed to be in place for the show were:
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Steve Cox & Ray Nichols /
Steve Bailey / at booking-in table.
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(They will also do the
“CC” colours later)
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Shaun & Dee Thompson on
Bio-Security.
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John Mullen to hand out the reward monies as
the birds are entered.
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Bird Auction to
start at 3pm. With a description of the birds’ history posted
beforehand
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Doors /Gates for setting
up Sunday open at 6.30 am.
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Booking in /out Sunday,
as Mick described, with Champions& Intermediates’ through car park exit
and Novice & Beginners at side doors.
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Bag of seed, bottle of
malt whiskey, bottle of wine & box of biscuits for main raffle
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It was agreed to set up
from 2.30 on Saturday 13th so we are ahead of time (as last
year)
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6 new Judging stands to
be made (FreeBo to action)
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Malcolm Parsons to help
in show office
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Aiden Bird to help with
Patronage ,also to set up “C C” stands
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Judges for 2017: Geoff
Bowley, Sam Wildes, John Lees, J & A Terheege
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Judges for 2018: Alan &
Gina Adams, Harry Hockaday, Robbie Keeber, Wayne Bloxham
  
We looked at the birds during
the break. As there were some birds with bad faults there to talk about but
also some very good feathered birds, we got Steve Cox, as panel judge, to
talk about the faults and how he would use them if they were his birds. It
was very interesting for all members to listen to, because he gave reasons
why to use or not use them, also to make sure you kept good records on the
birds with certain faults so you don’t double up on that fault in the future
as it could ruin your stud.
  
Steve said it was taking a lot
longer to get the judging done as, when a long tail /flight bird was
suspected, the judge took the bird to other judges for confirmation before
disqualifying it. Even then some birds were still winning a “CC”, which was
not sending out the correct message to breeders that show.
   
We talked about why some top
breeders / judges are still showing them and hoping to win when they should
know they won’t after all the publicity and photos on the BS web site /
magazine!
    
After that we had the raffle
and then I thanked the members for bringing their birds and closed the
meeting, wishing everyone a safe journey home. |
South Hampshire
July 2016
Steve Bailey, our Chairman,
opened the meeting and welcomed all there. Apologies were read out from John
Burton, Bryon Shaw, Heidi Patient, Jane Cooper, Les & Miranda Underwood &
Kids and Andrew McKendrick. (29 Members Attended)
Steve then handed over to Tony Cash to
explain about the judging procedure, which was to place the birds in the
order that you would like to take them home,
with the
paperwork I had printed off to be filled in by the members. They had to
mark up birds 1-6 and were asked to keep the paper work on them until part 2
of the evening, when we would get someone to judge them!
   
With all the
birds’ benched (14 which is just right for a judging competition) and ready
we dealt with club business first regarding the show schedule and the last
meeting, which was the Gary Hale.
   
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After lots of lively discussion during the judging and sharing ideas
it was time for a tea break. Once the break was over I asked Mick
Freeborn to judge, in which he put up his selection and explained
why he had chosen them in detail. He then asked various members to
come up with their selection and give their reasons for placing the
birds in their order, which was very entertaining. |
   
As the
evening was drawing to a close it was evident that 99% of the members chose
the same bird to take home, which was a Cinnamon Grey cock with lots of
frontal blow as best bird there.
Mick then
went on to say which birds he would pair to the winners to overcome the
faults they were carrying together and the reasons why, which was very
interesting, especially with a few comments from the floor as well!
It was an
enjoyable evening with most members participating, which is what club
meetings are all about.
We then had the raffle & Steve Bailey closed the meeting wishing all a safe
journey home. |
South Hampshire
June 2016
Steve Bailey, our Chairman,
opened the meeting and welcomed all there. Apologies were read out from John
Burton, Bryon Shaw and Tony Cash. (35 Members Attended including 1 paid up
new member)
Steve
then introduced Gary Hale, our speaker for the evening and carried on with
interaction with Gary during the evening.
Jim Lawrie with Gary Hale
Gary started by giving an
explanation as to why he and David Davies split the partnership in 2008,
when all the birds went to David’s place because of the personal problems
that Gary had. He said that when he had sorted out the problems and wanted
the birds back he only got back 21 cocks and 17 hens, which is well below
the number taken to David’s aviary. They haven’t now spoken for 4 years.
He said he became a Welsh BS
panel judge at 21 years old and won Best YB at the Welsh BS show in 1992.
His aims were:
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Only show your own rung
birds and not brought in birds( Only ever showed 1 brought bird)
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Show at Championship shows
only
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Keep only the quality birds
with the desired features and dispose of others
Gary explained about his
feeding methods and supplements and treatment of the bird room for diseases
etc. He uses a lot of horse products such as “Dobson & Horrell” Hedgerow
Herbs, also Thrive (Horses).
He makes up a month’s supply of
soft food and freezes it into amounts he would use in a day, as he hasn’t
always the time to spend making it up each day.
Gary said we all need a bit of
luck and once he had a super cock but no hen for him, so he was lent a Roger
Long hen which produced 5 super chicks before she passed on (odd pairing
brought good results).
Also, the Moorhouse birds he
acquired with the fluffy head feather had improved his birds and he has
still maintained the length and deportment in the birds as well.
During the slide show of the
many birds from the BS club show, he pointed out particular good points on
the birds as well as being critical on certain features regarding feather
etc. In his own aviary, which is 20` X 12, he now has deep nest box’s (now
PVC) which stop the chicks coming out too early. We were given a running
commentary on all aspects of the bloodlines and from whom he acquired stock,
including his friend in Scotland who he swaps with. (We all should do this)
After tea break
the evening continued with lots of pictures of quality birds, again mainly
from the club show, we then had questions and answers.
Question: What do you look for in a good hen?
Answer: She has to sit on the perch well and not lie across it and also
stand well up. However, I look for these features in all my birds; style is
all important, as well as everything that makes a good bird.
Question: Do your hens have trouble getting in and out of the nest box?
Answer: No trouble at all and, as I previously said, the chicks don’t come
out so soon with the deep boxes I use and therefore I don’t have as many
problems. They are fed that bit longer within the nest box and are more
able to cope if they do happen to come out too soon.
Question: Do you get many aviary visitors to your birdroom?
Answer: Not many, people don’t seem to want to come over the bridge to come
and see me!
Gary
also judged the bird competition of the evening with the following results:
Best bird: Green Spangle cock
of Peter Merritt:
2nd: Yellow Face Sky
cock of Andrew McKendrick (Deemed to be a long flight with no tail)
Once again, we all showed our
appreciation to Gary for a very entertaining evening.
We then had the raffle & Steve
Bailey closed the meeting wishing all a safe journey home! |
South Hampshire
May 2016
Steve Bailey, our Chairman,
opened the meeting and welcomed all there. Apologies were read out from John
Burton, Bryon Shaw, Mark Edwards, Mick Freeborn and Derrick Ham. We also
welcomed prospective new members Jason Bramble with daughter Elise from
Portsmouth (31 Members Attended)
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With the birds benched, Kevin
Welch started judging
at 8.15pm. Neil Cawley acted as chief steward,
whilst we dealt with club business.
Steve then handed over to me
to give a brief of the
format for the evening, which was asking Kevin to choose Best Young Bird
overall, best Opposite Sex and Best Barhead, as well as section winners.
  
I
also mentioned that our Show schedule was approved by the BS (Beverly Hutt)
with me & Peter Merritt working on it for a while, with Steve Cox doing a
final check for mistakes before we sent it off.
Kevin Welch
I read out the minutes of
the last meeting from the 8-4-2016 when we had Robbie Keeber as our guest
speaker, which was a very interesting evening.
Kevin had almost finished his
judging by the break, so after refreshments he selected the main winners of
the night. He gave a detailed assessment of the birds he had chosen, with
a Green Hen up as Best Bird, saying it had some growing to do to become a
super budgie!
Best In Show
Kevin then started to give
comments regarding the quality of the birds benched and the faults and good
features that were in front of him. He also explained the types of pairings
he liked and what he was trying to put on to his birds.
With each bird commented on,
along with comments from various members, he then took questions from the
floor. There were lots of positive and interesting comments, so ‘well
done’ to all the
winners.
The
winners on the evening were:
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Best Young Bird: Neil Cawley with a Green Hen (Best
Novice)
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Best Opp. Sex Young Bird: Martin Terry
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Best Intermediate Bird: Peter Merritt
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Best Novice Young Bird: Neil Cawley
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Best Beginner Bird: N/E
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Best Barhead: Peter Merritt
Well
done to Kevin for his Judging and to all who brought birds on the evening!
The
meeting finished at 10pm with the
raffle. Steve
thanked all members and
closed the meeting, wishing all a safe journey home. |
South Hampshire
April 2016
Our
Chairman, Steve Bailey, opened the meeting, welcomed all there including new
members / guests Les & Mirada Underwood with children Robbie & Sophie he
then introduced Robbie Keeber, our speaker for the evening. Apologies were
read out from John Burton, David Cummings, Mark Edwards, John Mullen and
Kevin Burnett.
The
birds were benched (any
Green Series Bird) and ready for
viewing later.
Robbie started by telling
how he came into the hobby and that he joined the BS in 1971, but with 4
children and a new business venture to run the birds took a backward step
for a while. He said that any one could win at open shows now, but in days
gone by it was always won by a certain group of top breeders with large
studs and top quality birds.
He said that these days
there were not very many (that he would call) large studs about in this
country. Also, in those days the Europeans etc., came over here to acquire
good birds and blood lines, whereas these day we all go over there to bring
back the ingredients / features we originally sold them, as they have worked
with them to produce the type of bird we all wish to have in our aviaries!
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The evening
carried on with questions and answers, with Jim Lawrie starting off
by asking Robbie about judging in general. Robbie said that the
rare breeders should be the judges chosen to judge them as they know
what they are bred from and these varieties /species are being
renamed all the time. He said perhaps we should have a class at the
‘rares’ show for unclassified birds, as some judges would pass over
these birds very quickly and not give them a second look in the run
down.
Robbie said that
a lot of people had brought in birds from abroad and not seen a
great deal of improvement immediately, although given time the
features and blood that they brought in start showing and coming out
in the stock. Robbie said during his travels in this country he
went to many aviaries that had birds from Europe and there was a
noticeable improvement in the stud over the last few years. |
Robbie was asked what he
would do if he was going to start up again and he replied that he would try
and build a family of birds, go to as many breeders as he could, join a
local club and eventually settle with one breeder who had a good stud
throughout rather than one that had top quality birds that dropped away
quickly. He said he would build up a relationship with that person by
buying the lesser brothers and sisters of his best birds, which would build
up his family of birds and would enable him to go back and buy a better bird
the following year.
He said to also look to
where you would buy in and out cross with a particular feature that you
required to improve your birds, as this would also maintain your fertility
within the stud. At the end of each year you must be ruthless in disposing
of birds that would be no good to you in order for you to improve and be
competitive on the show bench.
Robbie said that the
total trimming of birds was not required, only on the sides with long
feathered/buff birds as he had found that it made no difference to his
breeding whether he trimmed or not. Someone asked about a class for flecked
or odd looking birds and his reply was to leave them at home, as we were
only supposed to see show birds based on the ideal.
With regard to faults in
birds, he said that all faults needed to be worked on to eradicate from your
stud by working with different lines of birds or buying in an outcross
without that fault. If necessary get rid of a complete line of birds before
it became a major fault throughout your stud. He said you should stand in
front of your birds and look at them to see the features that were standing
out, which should show what was lacking within the birds. You should then
introduce that feature as a new line and, when it was working, cross it over
to your original lines. In this way you would not spoil the good work
already carried out within the other lines.
 
In
the second half Robbie first judged the birds there and gave a very in-depth
detail of what he thought of each bird (very interesting). He then went on
to talk about bringing in outcrosses and the type of birds from Germany,
Belgium, South Africa etc., and talked about the dodgy dealings of certain
breeders with regards to showing. He also spoke of his respect for Mrs Moss,
which was all very interesting.
He finished by saying
that you only got out of the hobby what you put into it, i.e. Jo Mannes put
in 95% of his time and energy into breeding his birds whereas the rest of us
probably only put in about 20%.
The evening finished at
just gone ten o’clock and appreciation was shown from the thirty six people
that attended. Our thanks to Robbie for a very entertaining evening.
After
the raffle Steve thanked every body, closed the meeting and wished everyone
a safe journey home.
I look
forward to seeing everyone at the next meeting, which is our Young Stock
Show with Kevin Welch as our Judge. |
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South Hampshire
March 2016
Our Vice Chairman Steve
Bailey opened the meeting and welcomed all there. Apologies were read out
from John Burton, David Cummings, Mark Edwards, John Mullen and Pam &
Malcolm Freemantle.
There were 26 in
attendance.
With the birds benched
(Any Blue Series
Bird) and ready for viewing later, we
dealt with club business / AGM. Peter Merritt had previously handed
out the 2015 accounts for members to take home to see if there were any
‘anomalies’ that they would like to raise tonight .
  
South
Hampshire Minutes of AGM 2015:
These were read out to
all members by Peter Merritt and there were no comments.
Minutes taken as true
account of AGM 2015:
(Proposed by Neil
Cawley – Seconded by Peter Church)
The President’s
Report
The President, Mick
Freeborn, started by saying a thank you to everyone connected to the club
for the work they did and apologised if he had forgotten anyone. He
said that both Tony Cash and Peter Merritt had put in a tremendous amount of
work over the year to ensure that South Hampshire BS remained one of the
best clubs in the south and that there had been some great meetings with
entertaining speakers and this was very good indeed.
The Chairperson then
gave his report:
Bill Farr was absent
from the meeting so no report was given. Steve Bailey, the Vice Chairman,
got up and said how well the club was progressing, which was due to the
membership all pulling together to make it a very successful Society. He
said he hoped it would continue in 2016 and beyond.
General Secretary’s
report:
Tony Cash started by
thanking the committee for all their work during the year, which had
contributed to the success of the club. He said all of the meetings had been
reasonably well attended during the year because of the quality of the
program / speakers and with the line up this year it should be even better.
Treasurer’s report and Membership
Peter Merritt went
through the profit and loss/balance sheet reports that had been given out to
members. Peter said that, compared to 2014, there were not a lot of
differences and he gave a full detailed explanation of the accounts that
showed an overall profit of £100.80. Peter thanked Malcolm Freemantle for
his work on the accounts. (Auditor)
Also we picked up 9 new
members during the year.
(Accounts Proposed by
Jim Lawrie– Seconded by Neil Cawley)
Installation of New
President N/A
Mick
Freeborn on his 3rd year!
Election of
Officers:
The President took over
the chair for the election of Chairperson and officers.
(A copy of elected
officers is attached for your perusal)
Regarding the Open Show in August, we will be having an auction of 8 birds
again to raise funds for the club and we have thanked all those who
contribute towards helping the club have a successful open show. We will
discuss the entry fees and incentives at the Committee meeting to be held on
the 8th of April at 6pm to see if we are keeping it the same.
The AGM finished at
8.45m.
After the raffle Steve
thanked every body, closed the meeting and wished everyone a safe journey
home.
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South Hampshire
February 2016
As
our Chairman & Vice Chair were absent I opened the meeting and welcomed all
there. Apologies were read out from John Burton, David Cummings, Bill Farr,
Mark Edwards, Derek Ham, Andy Thorpe, Andrew McKendrick, Kevin Burnett and
Steve Bailey (9). There were 27 in attendance.
With
the birds benched (any Cinnamon) and ready for viewing later, we dealt with
club business. Peter Merritt handed out the 2015 accounts for members to
take home to see if there were any ‘anomalies’ that they would like to raise
at next month’s AGM.
I
gave out a revised 2016 program to non-email members, together with the
Agenda for the forthcoming AGM that will be held next month
on Friday 4th
March. I then asked if those on the committee would be prepared to stand
again and, if there were any other nominations, to send them to me.
I
informed everyone that I would be interviewing Peter Merritt this evening,
as our original guest speaker had had a heart attack (recovering well but
cannot drive yet), so I started with a list of 27 major questions on our
hobby.
The
main sub titles were: The early days, Management, Success with a small stud,
Showing and General stuff / meetings /has the hobby changed.
The
main information we got from Peter was that he came back into the hobby in
2012; he now breeds with 18 cages in a refurbished birdroom with a velux
roof light but no window. He has LED lighting (daylight type) coming on at
6.30am – 9pm and his stock level at breeding time is aprox 60 rising to 160
before his sort out.
He
loves to show, entering 8 last year and showing between 12 – 22 birds. He
said he enjoyed all aspects of the hobby, including the social side which he
thought was most important.
During the interview there was lots of interaction between all members for
most of the evening, which created a friendly atmosphere with most people
contributing in some way.
We
all had a lovely evening listening to Peter Merritt’s answers to the various
questions about this great hobby of ours and many thanks to all that brought
birds for the meeting! Also, our thanks to Jim Lawrie who wrote the
questions. |
South
Hampshire January 2016
Steve
Bailey, the Vice Chairman, opened the meeting and welcomed all there.
Apologies were read out from John Burton, David Cummings, Bill Farr, Neil
Cawley, Derek Ham, John Mullen, Andy Thorpe, Peter Church, Brian Bailey,
Kevin Burnett and Pam Freemantle (11). There were 22 in attendance with
David Blackeby becoming a member.
  
With
the birds benched and ready for viewing later Steve then handed over to me
to explain the format for the evening, which was talking about our breeding
problems and medications in the first session up to our tea break. I went
round almost all members asking them how their breeding season was going so
far and the number of chicks they had managed to ring with new rings etc:
the numbers varied from 5 to over 100, which surprised all of us. We then
started looking and talking about the birds in general, with lots of
interaction between all members for most of the evening, which created a
friendly atmosphere with most taking part.
With
lots of discussion on day old chicks dying and various ways to eradicate
this we went on to talk about all sorts of problems, as well as feeding
methods etc. Jim Lawrie said he had a few birds in the flight going light,
which brought up all types of ideas how to treat / keep them. Below are
some of the medicines mentioned:
Treatments/ Medicines:
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Terramycin -
As directed
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Ronivet-s -
2Grams to 2 Litres
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Triple C - As
directed
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Orega-Stym -100%
Natural Supplement
I have
various sheets of information on different bird illnesses & stress /
feeding, which I can email to any members if requested.
After
this several members were expressing their views on the birds and which ones
they liked / would like to take home with them.
    
We
all (22) had a lovely evening talking about this great hobby of ours and
many thanks to all that brought birds for the meeting!
After
the raffle Steve Bailey thanked everybody. He then closed the meeting and
wished everyone a safe journey home. |
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