February 2009

Volume 5, number 1.

	February 2009. VARIOUS. News, miscellaneous and Buy & Sell market. 1 MB Click here to read more. Extra : Breeding AND Incubators. 3 MB Click here to read more.
	A visit at Klaas de With in Leeuwarden (NL). Klaas de With is in his early 50’s and has been in the hobby for quite a number of years. He got his first pigeons from his father when he was 12, and he kept them in a simple orange box. His first Old Dutch Turbits were purchased in 1970. In 1996 it was decided to start with a second breed: the American Giant Homers. By : Nico van Benten 10 pages - 500 KB Click here to read more.
	GERRIT GROOTEN also loves chickens ! The other day, when we visited some fanciers in Friesland, we passed through the town of Drachten, Gerrit Grooten’s hometown. Gerrit is a well known Rabbit Expert and Judge and had been our colleague for many years, when we all worked for the ‘printed’ magazine Avicultura, and we just couldn’t resist visiting him. He was surprised to see us - he had just finished cleaning the rabbit coops - and we were welcomed in. By : Elly Vogelaar 5 Pages - 320 KB Click here to read more.
	THE SOTTOBANCA at Raymond Daalmans’ in Hoogerheide (NL). The breed originated in Italy and according to the most recent information it was mentioned in and around the 15th Century. The Sottobanca is a very common pigeon in Italy. However, the breed was not only kept in Italy, but also in France. The birds were of (almost) the same type and there was never a problem with that. But in 1996 the Italian and French Sottobanca have been given separate recognition. By: Aviculture Europe. 10 Pages - 620 KB Click here to read more.
	CREAM LEGBAR BLUE IS THE NEW BLACK. How many of you have birds that lay blue eggs I wonder. There aren’t many breeds of poultry that lay blue eggs, but the UK does have a couple of them, the one that I bred was the Cream Legbar. I was lucky enough to breed the Cream Legbar for a couple of years but I had to move them on eventually to make way for another, even rarer, auto sexing breed. (maybe an article for another issue). By : Zoë Baden, UK. 6 Pages - 460 KB Click here to read more.
	The History of the American Crest club. The History of this club and the breed begins in the 1920-1930's when here in the US the French Mondain was bred primarily as a food source. From the late 1800's we had large squab farms here in the US which served the restaurant trade and food for the average family. The owners of these squab farms began exhibiting their prized breeders; pigeons which produced the best squabs with the most weight. By : Steven Roth (US) 4 Pages - 315 KB Click here to read more.
	CHICKEN RUN. The beautiful New Hampshire and Amrock fowls of Jo De Dooij are living proof that a breed, when kept by a devoted fancier/specialist, can be bred to perfection. Of course it helps that these ones can spend their chicken lives in such a paradise-like situation, in the green grass of the Dutch village of Ossendrecht. And that Jo certainly is a gifted breeder. By : Elly Vogelaar 8 Pages - 550 KB Click here to read more.
	CONCERNING POULTRY. Eggs & egg contest. An egg is one of the best and healthiest food ingredients; very all round, but also undervalued, misused and exploited by the economy. The price for this small nugget of gold is ridiculously low. I am going to explain why one egg is better than the other and what to look for in so-called egg contests. The principle of an egg contest is that a good hatching egg is also a good consumption egg. By : Dirk de Jong 6 Pages - 340 KB Click here to read more.
	VIVE LA FRANCE. The national symbol of France is a rooster. From the very roots of French history, the Latin word Gallus means both "rooster" and "inhabitant of Gaul". The French rooster emblem adorned the French flag during the French revolution around 1800. The rooster is the emblem of French sports teams in international events, such as the French national soccer team and the French rugby team. The French rooster is even used as part of the logo for some large French brands. By : Luuk Hans 8 Pages - 600 KB Click here to read more.
	AVICORNI SHOW 2008. OPENING. The Opening Ceremony took place on Saturday morning, beginning with 11:00 o’clock, in one of the upstairs auditoriums, and, due to an overfilled programme and many ‘important’ speakers, who all had a ‘message’, this ceremony surely ended up in the top 3 of the longest in the last 20 years. The Show was opened by Mister H.J. Ormel from the Dutch Government, Chairman of the Commission of Foreign Affairs and spokesman for the Commission of Animal Rights and Animal Health. By : Aviculture Europe 7 Pages 440 KB Click here to read more.
	BREWER’S DUCK. A Hybrid with a History. The duck seen below, labelled as a hybrid ‘Mallard x Teal’ in the publication “Hybrids /Bastaards” in Aviculture Europe, December 2008 is not this hybrid combination, but in fact a hybrid of Mallard and Gadwall, or a so-called “Brewer’s Duck”. But how and why this hybrid is associated with a specific name, “Brewer’ s duck”? By : Jörn Lehmhus (Germany) 5 Pages - 200 KB Click here to read more.
	FANCY Pigeons at the Dutch National Championship. A photo report on the Fancy Pigeons at the Dutch national Championship Show at AVICORNI December 2008. By : Aviculture Europe 12 Pages - 1 MB Click here to read more.
	ACE OF THE SHOW. Part 1. Proud owners, top animals and striking breed products. This time: Donau-Bussen-Show 12-13 October 2008 in Riedlingen an der Donau (Germany). By : Mick Bassett 9 Pages - 1 MB Click here to read more.
	ACE OF THE SHOW. Part 2. Proud owners, top animals and striking breed products. This time : The KERNHEM SHOW in Ede (NL) and the 3e SALON DE L'AGRICULTURE in Bastogne (Belgium), October 2008. By : Dirk de Jong 10 Pages - 1,1 MB Click here to read more.
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