Post by Marianne Marlow on Nov 26, 2011 18:06:35 GMT
Pierre & Maja Swart , Gold Medal Champions, Breeders, Exhibitors & Judges of South Africa
Breeders of the future Setting the Trends
The Beginning
Pierre and Maja joined the Karoo Budgerigar Club in 1993. In 1994 they travelled 800 km to Johannesburg to their first show. They did not show any birds but simply worked as stewards and during that weekend the pair of them learned more about budgerigar breeding in South Africa than they had in the previous two years. Their first major purchase was two Doc Robinson bred birds from somebody who had previously purchased them directly from Doc Robinson. One was a Grey cock which bred well and he was the founder bird of their Stud today. In 1995 they both travelled more extensively to the shows meeting Reinhardt Molkentin who had just emigrated from Germany.
The following month Pierre travelled 1000 km to Reinhardt Molkentin's residence to purchase two pairs of birds.
The Daily Routine
In the morning the birds receive chickweed / spinach / endive which are grow in a small garden. Pairs with chicks get larger quantities. The next boxes are checked when chicks are expected to hatch. In the afternoon clean filtered water is given to all birds. Cages that have self-feeders are checked. The birds get their soft food mix, which consists of grated carrot, broccoli, sweet potato, cut corn, soaked germinated grouts and seed with egg food mixed together. The next task which is the highlight of the day is checking the nest boxes. Much time is spent watching the birds in the flights, as well as those birds which have just been paired up. This assists a lot when it comes to pairing up birds and birds that are ready for breeding are easily spotted. Every week the flights are scrubbed with a disinfectant. The flights have been built at a slight angle so that it makes it easier for rinsing, washing and draining off.Virukill which is one of the most advanced disinfectants in the World is used for this task.
The partnership is simply run. Pierre and an assistant clean the bird room, as Maja is allergic to the dust particles. Maja will assist in choosing and preparing the show team, she likes the show side of things more than Pierre does. She will normally choose the winning bird from the Stud a few days prior to the actual show date. When it comes to culling Maja is the strict one and Pierre will always defend a particular bird.
Pairing up
They always try to pair related birds. Birds are paired up to improve the quality of the bird and never for a specific colour. When pairing up rare varieties, the same rule applies. Pairing opaline to opaline or cinnamon to cinnamon is acceptable as long as an improvement is envisaged in the protégée bred from this pairing. The cock and hen are normally placed into the breeding cage at the same time and the nest box is kept open for them to enter into. If the hen does not enter the nest box within three days, they remain patient for another day or two if it is a maiden hen, otherwise the pair will be split up.
Wheat bran is used as nesting material, you can easily notice when the hen has been in the next box or not.
The prefered pairing of nephew to niece and half-brother to half-sister are regulary used. They never pair up hens younger than eight months old. It is their experience that hens paired up younger than 8 months are only successful in the first round and become troublesome hens after that. They do not hesitate to pair up a cock bird as young as 6 months old if they are ready for breeding. Some cock birds mature at a very young age. When pairing up birds, at least one bird must have natural showmanship (swank), which is not always obtainable, but they both we do prefer to do this pairing. The next boxes are never cleaned or fiddled with the until the first egg has been laid.
Showing
Pierre and Maja show a big team only when the show is in their home town or close by. The size of the team depends on a few things, but it basically comes down to how much space they have available when travelling. The birds get sprayed daily for four weeks before the show; spots and damaged tails are removed ten to eight weeks before the show. Two days before the show the spots get plucked and the faces of the birds are washed to open the feathers just above the cere. This is very important, many fanciers don't do this and therefore do their birds an injustice. It is the little things that count. Maja is the expert in removing and cleaning blood feathers, she is always able to “repair” any damage and is “paid” with success on the show bench. This has been proved over and over. The seed for the show team also gets washed and sun dried. Daily training of birds is not practised in the stud, but when it is a bird's first show it is placed into the show cage a few times and if it is does not settle down naturally, it gets to sleep over in the show cage that night. This normally does the trick! It is both our opinion that birds that are not natural showers never really do well on the show bench. Birds that are nervous in the show cage must be of outstanding quality before we keep them.
On the way home after a show the drive back is always made short with the show catalogue that is discussed in length by the two of them. Upon returning from shows they make sure the birds are placed back in their original stock cages with fresh water grit and soft food. No matter how late the hour, even if it is 3 am in the morning, the birds are attended to and fed and watered before they go to bed. When dealing with sick puffed up birds, they don't advocate long periods of medication being used. They do prefer to treat the sick bird for a short period.
If they don't recover, so be it.
Bird Selection is On-going
The selection of birds is an on-going process. They have three flights, one large flight where all the birds are transferred to from the weaning cages. The birds in this flight are normally the outstanding and average ones. This flight is observed very keenly; therefore birds that don't belong there are removed if their quality is not up to standard. Another flight is used for keeping adult birds. From this flight the breeding pairs are chosen. Cocks and hens are housed together. This way the hens don't get fat and lazy and by observing them it is easily established which birds are in breeding condition. They also make use of an American Aloe stump in the adult flight for the hens to chew on to get them into breeding condition and this makes the selection of breeding birds easy. The last flight is where all the culled/sales birds are kept. Youngsters that show no good features or promise at all go straight from the weaning cages into this flight.
Show Results
Pierre and Maja’s first big win came in 1996. Winning Best Beginner in Show in Port Elizabeth with an Opaline Sky Blue Cock, all offspring of the Grey Cock bred by Doc Robinson. At the end of 1999 Pierre went to the 1999 National Show in Benoni. Everybody expected Jenny Huber (who was dominating the Intermediate Section at that time) to win again. However Pierre and Maja won Best Intermediate in Show and Best Intermediate Young Bird in Show with a Mauve Cock PALM-041-98. This really started many wins to follow.
The outstanding grey green cock that was bred from one of Reinhard's birds was paired up with an average opaline grey hen that was purchased from Pat de Beer in Cape Town. One cock in particular, an opaline grey green won four Best in Shows. Maja named him "Simply" because he was "Simply the best". He was a wonderful bird and although he had some faults he always seemed to catch the judge's eye. At a show in 2001 he won Best in Show. His sister was an opaline grey green hen and she won Best Opposite Sex and a grey spangle cock won Best Young Bird in Show. They have produced a large family around this bloodline, although "Simply" never bred.
At the National Show in 2003 they again achieved something previously never done by winning Best Opposite Sex with a Texas Clearbody Hen. In 2005, four out of a possible six Best in Show's were achieved. Pierre judged the National and as such could not enter for the show. In 2006, six out of possible seven Best in Show were achieved; they also won best any age on show at the 2006 National. They were promoted by two ribbons in the champion section which was only once achieved by another champion exhibitor before, namely Reinhardt Molkentin.
Things even got better in 2007, which Pierre & Maja always predict will be their best year with a possible five out seven Best in Shows including Best Bird in Show and Best Opposite Sex in Show at the 2007 National. They were over the moon. Again they were promoted two ribbons to silver medal champions and were also rewarded with the medal as Champion of Champions for 2007, a reward that is allocated yearly by the Budgerigar Society of South Africa for the best achieving Champion breeder.
2008
In 2008 they entered four shows and won three Best in Shows. On the National Show they won Best Any Age on Show. They have done exceptionally well on the Nationals since 2003 winning a Major Award every year except for 2005 when Pierre judged. They were again awarded Champion of Champions for 2008 and were promoted to Gold Medal Champions.
Titan and Zack
2009
In 2009 they entered all the Area Championship Shows and won all Best in Shows. This was not planned and came unexpectedly as they won each show. After each show they decided to try for the next one and only entered at the last minute after making sure that all the birds were in show condition where possible.
One week before the National in Cape Town they had warm weather in the vicinity of ±26º in comparison to their normal winter day temperature ranging from -5 to a maximum of ±10 - 15º. Their hearts sank in their shoes because the birds went into a moult and “Zee” dropped a couple of flights and some of the others dropped tails and the birds started to produce pin feathers on their heads. The closing date for the National was a week before the show which did not give them much time to make sure that the birds were in top condition before entering. They worked endlessly on their heads two days before the show to open the pin feathers. At the end there were only two birds that were in reasonable condition.14 birds were entered and 13 were benched as one of them dropped another tail.
The two birds that were reasonably in condition were a Grey Cinnamon Spangle Cock which won Best in Show at the National and the other were a Yellow face Spangle Cock, “Ziss” son of “Zee” which won Best Any Age in Show. The Grey Cinnamon Spangle Cock was named “Titan”. Only birds that do very well on shows or looks like a stunner in the nest gets a “name”.
Photo on left is "zee"
Winning six Best on Shows in one year is an achievement that was never ever achieved before by another exhibitor. Four different birds won the six shows. There was “Zee” yellow face Cobalt Spangle Cock which was only taken to the Free State show in 2009 and became the first Supreme Champion registered in South Africa. To become a Supreme Champion the bird need to win three best in shows.
Gauteng Area Championship Show was won by “Zack” yellow face Skyblue Cock, son of “Zee”. He also won the Western Cape Area Championship Show as well as the Eastern Cape Area Championship Show which also made him the second Supreme Champion Bird which we registered. He also won 5th Best Champion at the National.
Zee
At Natal Area Championship Show Zee and Zack were not entered but Zee’s other son “Ziss a yellow face Sky-blue Spangle Cock was entered. “Ziss” also won Best Any Age on Show at the Eastern Cape Area Championship Show, Best Young Bird on the Free State Show as well as Western Cape Show and at the National Show won Best Any Age on Show. Coincidently “Titan” won Best Young Bird at the Natal Area Championship Show.
“Lady Lace” is a Lacewing Hen which won 3 Best Opposite Sex on Shows at the Free State, Eastern Cape & Natal Area Championship Shows. “Lady Ice” is a Double Factor Spangle Hen that was entered at four shows she won four Challenge Certificates in 2009 and was in contention at two shows (Eastern Cape & Natal) for opposite sex on show.
Lady Ice
Being the year of extremes for Pierre and Maja they also registered the first Grand Champion Bird which is a Spangle Grey Green Cock “Mr Mustard”. To become a grand champion the bird need to win 8 Grade A & B Challenge Certificates.
Mr Mustard
The cherry on the cake were when they heard that they had won the Champion of Champions for 2009 for the third consecutive year. All their expectations were exceeded and definitely not planned – as said before it grew from one show to another and sometimes it took a lot of persuasion from Maja to get Pierre to drive to the shows as she was busy with school activities and personal appointments that was already made in advance.
The year 2007 was a good year for showing their birds, but 2009 topped it by far, unexpectedly, which shows that although it was not planned – success is only as far as you would allow it to be. If they did not take any chances they would not have been in the position they are in now.
They do always preach to others to set goals and go for them, but for them the goals were set week by week and month by month, forever changing.
2010
The year 2010 was again a very good year for them and their birds, they only entered four shows and they won BIS at all of them. In March they won the Spangle Show (with Titan”) and the best Young Spangle in Show (with ‘Arno”) and also won the Rare show (with “Ghalib”). In April they attained the BIS at the Eastern Cape Area Show (again with “Titan”). He died shortly after the show.
Then the National came and they thought they did not have a very good chance, but Lady Luck smiled on them both and they won with a yellow face Grey Cinnamon Cock ("Zueler") and they also managed to win Best Any Age Opposite Sex. Sadly the yellow face died when they arrived home after a 1300km journey. It is still a mystery that their 2 BIS birds died after shows.
They won the Champion of Champions for 2010 for the fourth consecutive year. For them the goals are set week by week and month by month, forever changing.
2011
The 2011 show season had a dream kick off, with the partnership making a clean sweep, winning all the major awards, as well as 12 Challenge Certificates at the Eastern Cape Championship Show which was an A-grade show.
The Western Cape Championship Show at the end of May was entered with 14 birds, winning 11 Challenge Certificates as well as Best Young Bird on Show with a Cinnamon Grey Green Easly Clearbody Cock.
They held their breath for the upcoming National in July and tried their best to prepare the birds to the best of their ability. On the 16th of July 2011 1003 birds were benched and they achieved one of their main goals - winning the National three times consecutively. On record this has never been done since the establishment of the Budgerigar Society of South Africa in 1936. What made it more special is that the Budgerigar Society of South Africa was established in the Eastern Cape 75 years ago (1936). They also won Best Opposite Sex on Show, Best Young Bird on Show, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Best Bird on Show as well as 9 Challenge Certificates.
Easly clearbody cinnamonn grey green cock
Pierre and Maja are coming closer to their goal of achieving a Champion Bird in each colour by registering four more champion birds and only another four of the 26 are still outstanding. 2011 became the 5th consecutive year for them winning the Champion of Champions medal.
"Simply"
Depicted forever in glass and lead.
Best bird in show
Winner of 9 Challenge Certificates and four Best in Shows
In the hearts of Pierre and Mahja he is a Grand Champiom and Supreme
©2006 barrieshuttbudgerigars S3872.
Breeders of the future Setting the Trends
The Beginning
Pierre and Maja joined the Karoo Budgerigar Club in 1993. In 1994 they travelled 800 km to Johannesburg to their first show. They did not show any birds but simply worked as stewards and during that weekend the pair of them learned more about budgerigar breeding in South Africa than they had in the previous two years. Their first major purchase was two Doc Robinson bred birds from somebody who had previously purchased them directly from Doc Robinson. One was a Grey cock which bred well and he was the founder bird of their Stud today. In 1995 they both travelled more extensively to the shows meeting Reinhardt Molkentin who had just emigrated from Germany.
The following month Pierre travelled 1000 km to Reinhardt Molkentin's residence to purchase two pairs of birds.
The Daily Routine
In the morning the birds receive chickweed / spinach / endive which are grow in a small garden. Pairs with chicks get larger quantities. The next boxes are checked when chicks are expected to hatch. In the afternoon clean filtered water is given to all birds. Cages that have self-feeders are checked. The birds get their soft food mix, which consists of grated carrot, broccoli, sweet potato, cut corn, soaked germinated grouts and seed with egg food mixed together. The next task which is the highlight of the day is checking the nest boxes. Much time is spent watching the birds in the flights, as well as those birds which have just been paired up. This assists a lot when it comes to pairing up birds and birds that are ready for breeding are easily spotted. Every week the flights are scrubbed with a disinfectant. The flights have been built at a slight angle so that it makes it easier for rinsing, washing and draining off.Virukill which is one of the most advanced disinfectants in the World is used for this task.
The partnership is simply run. Pierre and an assistant clean the bird room, as Maja is allergic to the dust particles. Maja will assist in choosing and preparing the show team, she likes the show side of things more than Pierre does. She will normally choose the winning bird from the Stud a few days prior to the actual show date. When it comes to culling Maja is the strict one and Pierre will always defend a particular bird.
Pairing up
They always try to pair related birds. Birds are paired up to improve the quality of the bird and never for a specific colour. When pairing up rare varieties, the same rule applies. Pairing opaline to opaline or cinnamon to cinnamon is acceptable as long as an improvement is envisaged in the protégée bred from this pairing. The cock and hen are normally placed into the breeding cage at the same time and the nest box is kept open for them to enter into. If the hen does not enter the nest box within three days, they remain patient for another day or two if it is a maiden hen, otherwise the pair will be split up.
Wheat bran is used as nesting material, you can easily notice when the hen has been in the next box or not.
The prefered pairing of nephew to niece and half-brother to half-sister are regulary used. They never pair up hens younger than eight months old. It is their experience that hens paired up younger than 8 months are only successful in the first round and become troublesome hens after that. They do not hesitate to pair up a cock bird as young as 6 months old if they are ready for breeding. Some cock birds mature at a very young age. When pairing up birds, at least one bird must have natural showmanship (swank), which is not always obtainable, but they both we do prefer to do this pairing. The next boxes are never cleaned or fiddled with the until the first egg has been laid.
Showing
Pierre and Maja show a big team only when the show is in their home town or close by. The size of the team depends on a few things, but it basically comes down to how much space they have available when travelling. The birds get sprayed daily for four weeks before the show; spots and damaged tails are removed ten to eight weeks before the show. Two days before the show the spots get plucked and the faces of the birds are washed to open the feathers just above the cere. This is very important, many fanciers don't do this and therefore do their birds an injustice. It is the little things that count. Maja is the expert in removing and cleaning blood feathers, she is always able to “repair” any damage and is “paid” with success on the show bench. This has been proved over and over. The seed for the show team also gets washed and sun dried. Daily training of birds is not practised in the stud, but when it is a bird's first show it is placed into the show cage a few times and if it is does not settle down naturally, it gets to sleep over in the show cage that night. This normally does the trick! It is both our opinion that birds that are not natural showers never really do well on the show bench. Birds that are nervous in the show cage must be of outstanding quality before we keep them.
On the way home after a show the drive back is always made short with the show catalogue that is discussed in length by the two of them. Upon returning from shows they make sure the birds are placed back in their original stock cages with fresh water grit and soft food. No matter how late the hour, even if it is 3 am in the morning, the birds are attended to and fed and watered before they go to bed. When dealing with sick puffed up birds, they don't advocate long periods of medication being used. They do prefer to treat the sick bird for a short period.
If they don't recover, so be it.
Bird Selection is On-going
The selection of birds is an on-going process. They have three flights, one large flight where all the birds are transferred to from the weaning cages. The birds in this flight are normally the outstanding and average ones. This flight is observed very keenly; therefore birds that don't belong there are removed if their quality is not up to standard. Another flight is used for keeping adult birds. From this flight the breeding pairs are chosen. Cocks and hens are housed together. This way the hens don't get fat and lazy and by observing them it is easily established which birds are in breeding condition. They also make use of an American Aloe stump in the adult flight for the hens to chew on to get them into breeding condition and this makes the selection of breeding birds easy. The last flight is where all the culled/sales birds are kept. Youngsters that show no good features or promise at all go straight from the weaning cages into this flight.
Show Results
Pierre and Maja’s first big win came in 1996. Winning Best Beginner in Show in Port Elizabeth with an Opaline Sky Blue Cock, all offspring of the Grey Cock bred by Doc Robinson. At the end of 1999 Pierre went to the 1999 National Show in Benoni. Everybody expected Jenny Huber (who was dominating the Intermediate Section at that time) to win again. However Pierre and Maja won Best Intermediate in Show and Best Intermediate Young Bird in Show with a Mauve Cock PALM-041-98. This really started many wins to follow.
The outstanding grey green cock that was bred from one of Reinhard's birds was paired up with an average opaline grey hen that was purchased from Pat de Beer in Cape Town. One cock in particular, an opaline grey green won four Best in Shows. Maja named him "Simply" because he was "Simply the best". He was a wonderful bird and although he had some faults he always seemed to catch the judge's eye. At a show in 2001 he won Best in Show. His sister was an opaline grey green hen and she won Best Opposite Sex and a grey spangle cock won Best Young Bird in Show. They have produced a large family around this bloodline, although "Simply" never bred.
At the National Show in 2003 they again achieved something previously never done by winning Best Opposite Sex with a Texas Clearbody Hen. In 2005, four out of a possible six Best in Show's were achieved. Pierre judged the National and as such could not enter for the show. In 2006, six out of possible seven Best in Show were achieved; they also won best any age on show at the 2006 National. They were promoted by two ribbons in the champion section which was only once achieved by another champion exhibitor before, namely Reinhardt Molkentin.
Things even got better in 2007, which Pierre & Maja always predict will be their best year with a possible five out seven Best in Shows including Best Bird in Show and Best Opposite Sex in Show at the 2007 National. They were over the moon. Again they were promoted two ribbons to silver medal champions and were also rewarded with the medal as Champion of Champions for 2007, a reward that is allocated yearly by the Budgerigar Society of South Africa for the best achieving Champion breeder.
2008
In 2008 they entered four shows and won three Best in Shows. On the National Show they won Best Any Age on Show. They have done exceptionally well on the Nationals since 2003 winning a Major Award every year except for 2005 when Pierre judged. They were again awarded Champion of Champions for 2008 and were promoted to Gold Medal Champions.
Titan and Zack
2009
In 2009 they entered all the Area Championship Shows and won all Best in Shows. This was not planned and came unexpectedly as they won each show. After each show they decided to try for the next one and only entered at the last minute after making sure that all the birds were in show condition where possible.
One week before the National in Cape Town they had warm weather in the vicinity of ±26º in comparison to their normal winter day temperature ranging from -5 to a maximum of ±10 - 15º. Their hearts sank in their shoes because the birds went into a moult and “Zee” dropped a couple of flights and some of the others dropped tails and the birds started to produce pin feathers on their heads. The closing date for the National was a week before the show which did not give them much time to make sure that the birds were in top condition before entering. They worked endlessly on their heads two days before the show to open the pin feathers. At the end there were only two birds that were in reasonable condition.14 birds were entered and 13 were benched as one of them dropped another tail.
The two birds that were reasonably in condition were a Grey Cinnamon Spangle Cock which won Best in Show at the National and the other were a Yellow face Spangle Cock, “Ziss” son of “Zee” which won Best Any Age in Show. The Grey Cinnamon Spangle Cock was named “Titan”. Only birds that do very well on shows or looks like a stunner in the nest gets a “name”.
Photo on left is "zee"
Winning six Best on Shows in one year is an achievement that was never ever achieved before by another exhibitor. Four different birds won the six shows. There was “Zee” yellow face Cobalt Spangle Cock which was only taken to the Free State show in 2009 and became the first Supreme Champion registered in South Africa. To become a Supreme Champion the bird need to win three best in shows.
Gauteng Area Championship Show was won by “Zack” yellow face Skyblue Cock, son of “Zee”. He also won the Western Cape Area Championship Show as well as the Eastern Cape Area Championship Show which also made him the second Supreme Champion Bird which we registered. He also won 5th Best Champion at the National.
Zee
At Natal Area Championship Show Zee and Zack were not entered but Zee’s other son “Ziss a yellow face Sky-blue Spangle Cock was entered. “Ziss” also won Best Any Age on Show at the Eastern Cape Area Championship Show, Best Young Bird on the Free State Show as well as Western Cape Show and at the National Show won Best Any Age on Show. Coincidently “Titan” won Best Young Bird at the Natal Area Championship Show.
“Lady Lace” is a Lacewing Hen which won 3 Best Opposite Sex on Shows at the Free State, Eastern Cape & Natal Area Championship Shows. “Lady Ice” is a Double Factor Spangle Hen that was entered at four shows she won four Challenge Certificates in 2009 and was in contention at two shows (Eastern Cape & Natal) for opposite sex on show.
Lady Ice
Being the year of extremes for Pierre and Maja they also registered the first Grand Champion Bird which is a Spangle Grey Green Cock “Mr Mustard”. To become a grand champion the bird need to win 8 Grade A & B Challenge Certificates.
Mr Mustard
The cherry on the cake were when they heard that they had won the Champion of Champions for 2009 for the third consecutive year. All their expectations were exceeded and definitely not planned – as said before it grew from one show to another and sometimes it took a lot of persuasion from Maja to get Pierre to drive to the shows as she was busy with school activities and personal appointments that was already made in advance.
The year 2007 was a good year for showing their birds, but 2009 topped it by far, unexpectedly, which shows that although it was not planned – success is only as far as you would allow it to be. If they did not take any chances they would not have been in the position they are in now.
They do always preach to others to set goals and go for them, but for them the goals were set week by week and month by month, forever changing.
2010
The year 2010 was again a very good year for them and their birds, they only entered four shows and they won BIS at all of them. In March they won the Spangle Show (with Titan”) and the best Young Spangle in Show (with ‘Arno”) and also won the Rare show (with “Ghalib”). In April they attained the BIS at the Eastern Cape Area Show (again with “Titan”). He died shortly after the show.
Then the National came and they thought they did not have a very good chance, but Lady Luck smiled on them both and they won with a yellow face Grey Cinnamon Cock ("Zueler") and they also managed to win Best Any Age Opposite Sex. Sadly the yellow face died when they arrived home after a 1300km journey. It is still a mystery that their 2 BIS birds died after shows.
They won the Champion of Champions for 2010 for the fourth consecutive year. For them the goals are set week by week and month by month, forever changing.
2011
The 2011 show season had a dream kick off, with the partnership making a clean sweep, winning all the major awards, as well as 12 Challenge Certificates at the Eastern Cape Championship Show which was an A-grade show.
The Western Cape Championship Show at the end of May was entered with 14 birds, winning 11 Challenge Certificates as well as Best Young Bird on Show with a Cinnamon Grey Green Easly Clearbody Cock.
They held their breath for the upcoming National in July and tried their best to prepare the birds to the best of their ability. On the 16th of July 2011 1003 birds were benched and they achieved one of their main goals - winning the National three times consecutively. On record this has never been done since the establishment of the Budgerigar Society of South Africa in 1936. What made it more special is that the Budgerigar Society of South Africa was established in the Eastern Cape 75 years ago (1936). They also won Best Opposite Sex on Show, Best Young Bird on Show, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Best Bird on Show as well as 9 Challenge Certificates.
Easly clearbody cinnamonn grey green cock
Pierre and Maja are coming closer to their goal of achieving a Champion Bird in each colour by registering four more champion birds and only another four of the 26 are still outstanding. 2011 became the 5th consecutive year for them winning the Champion of Champions medal.
"Simply"
Depicted forever in glass and lead.
Best bird in show
Winner of 9 Challenge Certificates and four Best in Shows
In the hearts of Pierre and Mahja he is a Grand Champiom and Supreme
©2006 barrieshuttbudgerigars S3872.