June 2009

Volume 5, number 3

16 ARTICLES

 

 

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VARIOUS.

June 2009.

 

News, miscellaneous and

‘Buy and Sell’ market.

 

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VISITING TWO FANCIERS

OF GHent Croppers.

 

Marc van Schelstraete from Nijlen (B) is keeping Ghent Croppers since many years, although he chan­ged them for Steiger Crop­pers, which he bred also with very good result. 14 years ago he swit­ched back to his old love the Ghent Crop­per, that he now keeps in red, black and blue. Another fancier with good reputation as a breeder of Ghent Croppers is Joop van Loon from Emmeloord (NL), se­cre­tary of the Ghent Cropper Club in the Net­her­lands. We decided to also in­clude a report of the visit at Joop’s. He is breeding the Ghent Croppers in yellow and red do­mi­ni­can.

 

By : Nico van Benten (NL)

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THE SCHMALKALDEN

MOORHEAD.

 

In Germany, this Breed is in the 'Structure' Pigeon Group along with Fan­tails, Jacobins, Frill backs etc. For me this was a 'Local' Breed when I lived in Thuringia;  Schmal­kal­den is a Local Town in the Thu­rin­gian 'High­lands' known as the 'Wald' (Fo­rest).

 

By : Mick Bassett (D)

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CHICKEN RUN.

 

For decades the Kraienköppe ban­tam existed only in silver partridge and partridge. Recen­tly a number of new colour varieties have been crea­ted. One of the breeders that de­vo­tes himself in creat­ing new co­lours is Robert Hoornstra. We no­ti­ced that he is also a very en­thu­sias­tic promoter of these new varieties at many Large Shows all over the coun­try. This is very important, like the Dutch poultry specialist Van Gink already stated in 1964: “Your crea­tion is a success when it also at­tracts the interest of other fan­ciers; that is of importance for its con­ti­nua­tion and spreading”.

 

By : Elly Vogelaar (NL)

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CONCERNING POULTRY.

Ears and Earlobes.

 

Chickens - like all birds – don’t ha­ve an outer ear. A little behind the eyes is a round hole - the external ear opening - with the ear canal lea­ding to the eardrum, which is not visi­ble. Most of the time, when we say ‘ears’ we mean the earlobes. The accu­mu­lation and purifying cau­sed by selection by breeders over a long time have improved the regu­la­ri­ty in form, size and colour of ear­lo­bes, making the colour a breed cha­rac­teris­tic.

 

By : Elly Vogelaar (NL)

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MOORHEN

AND COMMON COOT.

 

The Moorhen is not related to poul­try, but is related - just as the Coot - to the Rail family. Because of igno­rance or indifference, these two spe­cies are confused or believed to be the same species. After reading this article Dirk de Jong you will not mix up these superior species any more. We also included a story by Pauline van Schaik who observed a Moor­hen family over several years.

 

By : Dirk de Jong and

Pauline van Schaik (NL)

11 pages - 955 kB

 

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COLLECTING

MODENA RINGS.

 

The topic of this article is Modena bands issued by Modena clubs. The American NPA is one such or­gani­za­tion that issues a particular size (M-size) for the exclusive use on Mo­de­nas.

 

By : Jan Lombard (SA)

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LAVENDER PHOENIX ?

 

The lavender colour is close (chro­mo­so­mal) to the ab­normal feather struc­ture gene (frayed, badly web­bed feather). It is very common, to see in lavender males', wing­bows in con­stant pin­fea­thers, main tail and sic­kles and les­ser sickles fra­yed, strin­gy, tatte­red loo­king. La­ven­ders of good fea­ther struc­ture have had the linkage broken. In the US we do not have many good la­ven­ders.

 

By : Danne J. Honour (USA)

5 pages - 330 kB

 

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The Bango and other

flying pigeons

 

Maybe Twan van der Heijden will hard­ly recognise himself in these pho­tos… It has been a long time sin­ce we visited him in Rosmalen (NL) and because of some un­ex­plain­able reason the text was laid aside and forgotten, but finally it’s here to read and enjoy. Better late than never.

 

By : Nico van Benten

3 pages - 170 kB

 

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POULTRY

IN ROMAN TIMES

 

Since Roman times a lot has been known about poultry. Moreover a lot of our present day wisdom was al­rea­dy known in those days. Roman au­thors used to describe the way of poul­try keeping. Also cock fighting was a po­pu­lar pastime.

 

By : Luuk Hans (NL)

6 pages - 965 kB

 

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IN HONOUR OF

Conrad Gessner.

 

Why a Gessner Center? In our opi­nion Conrad Gessner was a rather se­rious person from a scientific point of view. Opposite of what we see in the books of Aldro­vandi, it is very difficult to come across errors when running through the big a­mount of quotations held in Gess­ner’s natu­ralistic treat­ises. That is why we de­ci­ded to found the ‘Gess­ner Zen­trum’ so that his pri­zed data are ea­sily ac­ces­sible.

 

By : Elio Corti (IT)

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A VERY SPECIAL

EXPOSITION IN THE

DUTCH POULTRY

MUSEUM.

 

Beside the standard exhibit­ion the Poultry Museum in Barneveld (The Ne­therlands) has an alternating ex­hi­bi­tion which changes every year. Last year’s collection of wea­ther­cocks was very much worth seeing, this year the organisation realised an even more fascinating ex­hi­bi­tion.

 

By : Dirk de Jong (NL)

Photos: AE, Dirk de Jong and

Hans Ringnalda (NL)

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ACE OF THE SHOW.

Part 1.

 

Proud owners, top animals and stri­king breed products. This time : Poul­try and Pigeons at the Noord­show – National Show of the Dutch Poul­try Union - in Zuidlaren (NL).

 

By : Peter van den Top (NL)

9 pages - 955 kB

 

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ACE OF THE SHOW.

Part 2.

 

Proud owners, top animals and stri­king breed products. This time: Poul­try at the Kempenshow (Bel­gi­um) in De­cem­ber 2008.

 

By : Piet Steeman (B)

7 pages - 880 kB

 

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ACE OF THE SHOW.

Part 3.

 

Proud owners, top animals and stri­king breed products. This time: Fan­cy Pigeons, waterfowl and or­na­men­tal fowl at the Kempenshow (Bel­gi­um) in December 2008.

 

By : Piet Steeman (B)

9 pages - 930 kB

 

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