April 2010		Volume 6, number 2 19 ARTICLES
	VARIOUS - 1 News and miscellaneous - A word from the editor - Champion Show - The Frame - Upcoming event : Jubilee Show Friese Sierduiven Club - Barred and Cuckoo - Upcoming event: Centenary Modena Club England and 50 years Modena Club France 6 pages - 660 kB Click here to read more.
	international cauchois show This is the experience of a pigeon fancier, visiting the Champagne region in France, where in the village of Châlons en Champagne, a European Breed Show plus the French National Championship for Cauchois was organized. At the same Show also the National Championship Show for the Strasser and the Texan was hold. By : Wim Poortinga 5 pages - 410 kB Click here to read more.
	BUTTERCUP BREEDS American, English and Dutch breeders might be familiar with the Sicilian Buttercup. A rare breed, but it can be seen occasionally at shows. However, this is not the same breed as the Italian chicken breed ‘Siciliana’ from the isle of Sicily. Moreover, there are a few other buttercup varieties in the world, a fact which actually leads to confusion. By : Luuk Hans 6 pages - 500 kB Click here to read more.
	Lasne Crested bantam and the (fake) Augsburger buttercup Jacques Hanotier was the creator of this strange fowl which combines striking traits, as far as appearance is concerned, while being in the same time a good layer. The Lasne crested bantam was named after the city of Lasne in Walonian Brabant (South of Belgium) where Jacques and his wife lived. It had to be a chicken with the qualities of a Fauvist in the art of living and completing the list of other Walonian breeds. By : Sigrid van Dort 10 pages - 930 kB Click here to read more.
	Pigeon Fanciers Lung Fancy that happening ! You have to stop the hobby due to an allergy . . . In this article I restrict myself to the pigeon fancier who just heard from his doctor (and probably also advised by a specialist) that he has to stop keeping pigeons or even getting close to pigeons. When this prohibition is issued after so many years of keeping pigeons, of course this will come as a great disappointment. By : Nico van Benten 6 pages - 500 kB Click here to read more.
	VARIOUS - 2 - Join the Club of Asian Game Fowl breeders - Book sales - new and second hand - only Hobby related books - F5 generation - De Baroen webshop, also for herbs and specific seeds - Breeding Centre for the Hyacint pigeon - Book ‘KIPsignalen’ now available in the German language 7 pages - 480 kB Click here to read more.
	THE PIGEONS OF THE BATAVIANS Elio Corti, one of our Team of Editors, translated another part of the Aldrovandi book for us. A chance to read what Aldrovandi exactly did write, and this time it is about pigeons, to be more specific: the pigeons kept by the Batavians. “They report that French people, but above all the Belgians, and among them the Batavians, are passionately fond of the pigeons to such an extent that at least a fourth of them raises them only to satisfy his own mind.” By : Elio Corti (IT) 13 pages - 1070 kB Click here to read more.
	CHICKEN RUN BREDA FOWL AT henk Lubbers At the European Show in Wels, Austria in 2000, I promised Henk Lubbers I’d come over for an interview. It took over 10 years before I went to visit him in his hometown of Aalten, near the German border, but by then he had stopped breeding the Breda Fowl. By : Elly Vogelaar 11 pages - 1,2 MB Click here to read more.
	WELTVOGELPARK WALSRODE (germany) The 2010 Season will start on March 18th with an ocean of flowers, the gardens of Weltvogelpark Walsrode are well known as some of the most wonderful and well kept anywhere in Europe. But the Park is above all an extraordinary and specialized zoological institution without a match. As a warm up for the coming breeding season we have a few news and high-lights from the previous season that has not yet been published. By : WeltVogelpark Walsrode 6 pages - 340 kB Click here to read more.
	(Beauty) Homer Pigeons at the Keistad Show 2009 (NL) This was a good presentation of the Homer Pigeon Group of Breeds : 108 birds entered, with 9 out of the 10 Club Breeds being present; only the American Giant Homer was absent. We will review the breeds one by one. By : Sytze de Bruin 5 pages - 740 kB Click here to read more.
	VARIOUS - 3 - Upcoming event : Fancy Pigeon Show Sierduivenshow Zuid Nederland - CALL by Mark Fields of The American Dominique Club - Too special not to mention - Hen changes into cock - Newly recognised breeds at the NBS Show 2010 - Invitation Orpington meeting in France 9 pages - 1070 kB Click here to read more.
	CONCERNING POULTRY - PHYTOTHERAPY - We very pleased to receive from the Philippine vet Dr. Leila Flores, a clear and extensive list of herbs used in poultry, including their preparation and application. However, a number of the mentioned plants probably are not at hand in European countries. So if you live in the Northern hemisphere we advise you to also check the compatible list of herbs that is published in our Dutch issue. By : Dr. Leila Flores (PH), Dr. Maria Groot (NL) and Elly Vogelaar (NL) 7 pages - 600 kB Click here to read more.
	FANCY PIGEONS AT THE champion show A photo selection of the most beautiful fancy pigeons that were entered at the Champion Show, January 2010 in Utrecht. (A complete review, including the Poultry and Waterfowl photos and even more pigeons ! will be published in the June issue) By : Nico van Benten 11 pages - 2,2 MB Click here to read more.
	EGGS IN THE PAST Since April is the month linked with spring, Easter and eggs, and - in the northern hemisphere - the month when your chickens start laying abundantly, we thought it would be the appropriate time to share with you some of the ancient knowledge on eggs. By : Aviculture Europe 8 pages - 535 kB Click here to read more.
	SEXING CHICKS Commercial hatcheries use a variety of tricks that allow them to determine the sex of every chick from the moment it hatches. This is mostly done by means of cross breeding and thus completely useless to us, being serious breeders of pure breeds. However, we listed a number of tips that can be of help. By : Geoffrey Johnson, Greg Davies, Mick Bassett, et al. 6 pages - 650 kB Click here to read more.
	VARIOUS - 4 - Too old to lay - Sales of hatching eggs (B) - Aldrovandi on pigeons - The mysterious Lamotta - Upcoming event : European Breed Show of all Italian pigeon breeds - Unique poster 9 pages - 1,3 MB Click here to read more.
	ACE OF THE SHOW Part 1 Proud owners, top animals and striking breed products. This time : An extended photo report of the ONETO SHOW in Enschede, the Netherlands. By : Aviculture Europe 9 pages - 1.3 MB Click here to read more.
	ACE OF THE SHOW Part 2 Proud owners, top animals and striking breed products. This time : Promoting Pigeons at the Florida State Fair, US. By : Bill Burnsite 4 pages - 530 kB Click here to read more.
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