Post by Marianne Marlow on Nov 30, 2011 9:15:02 GMT
Hans Christian Østergaard Champion Breeder and Exhibitor from Viborg, Denmark
Q. When did you first start to become interested in budgie and what sparked it off?
A. I was 8 years old when I got my first budgie. In my family we have always bred animals. Horses, cows, pigs, sheep, dogs, pigeons, chickens, and almost everything that can fly.
Q. What did your first aviary / breeding room look like?
A. In a corner of an old hen house, colony breeding.
Q. Where and when did you acquire your first budgerigar?
A. My big brother had bought a swarm of pet budgies and I just had to own some of them.
Q. Do you still have birds from this bloodline?
A. No.
Q. Which bloodlines having given you the must impact on your stud?
A. Back in the 70s Ole Gade was the contemporary leading breeder in Denmark, but the past 15 years, the Mannes birds and subsequent Jac Cuyten. Jac birds have really given my stud a big boost. Subsequently, I have swapped and bought me some Lütolf birds.
Q. Do you have a Specific Way of preparing your birds for the breeding season?
A. When I am finished with the breeding season I run the light output down to eight hours daily and cut emissions gradually increasing the soft foods and egg food in the breeding birds in the aviary too within one month afterwards. The adult birds receive only dry seeds with extra small canary seed and millet added in the mix. The light is switched off completely during the day and only used at night time. In August, I run up again with the soft foods, egg foods, proteins, vitamins, minerals and light. Lights are switched on again for sixteen hours a day.
Q. Do you pair your birds by visual appearance / bloodline or both?
A. I have two different bloodlines. But I do not like outcrossing the two.
Q. How many chick and clutches are your birds Allowed?
A. It's not the way I normally run it on. I have an application running so that the various bloodlines multiply, this way there are always changes in the young chicks. Know your bloodlines and have enough of them so that there's also room for experimentation.
Q. What differences are there in your feeding programme in the breeding and non-breeding?
A. I do have the answer to it but I may then disclose that after I have visited Daniel Lütolf, I spend far more uses of forages and spices!
Q. What Would you change about your setup if you had the chance (and infinite money to do?
A. Large aviaries, more breeding cages (has 46) and a better air circulation system. That’s all!
Q. Do you believe in preventatives medication? If so what do you use?
A. Around August, I give a Trichoderma Plus cure (ronidasola 5%) from Versele-Laga. In order to eliminate coccidia, Trichomonomida and more. Additionally, I give two times Eiwomic with ten days apart, to kill intestinal worms and to prevent mites from settling on the birds. They simply cannot like it and thus decrease the stock. I firmly believe that it also helps to keep French moult check. After each treatment, I give in drinking water for three consecutive days-lactobacilli for improving intestinal flora and also Modstandskrafte. Otherwise I give it continuously one time a week and keeps the acidity of the birds around PH6. Vinegar will help here.
Q. How do you deal with birds with feather disorders?
A. Good question, too!,! One of the biggest reasons that we have birds with missing head feathers in the tail and wings: the soft feathers on broad feathers and are not hard and stiff in the head feathers of wings and tail. Check the chicks in the nest, especially when they are about to grow their head feathers. Some of them with the soft feathers have difficulty in breaking through and they do not, feather rolls around in the early fjersæk and why cysts are placed. Feather bag is damaged and thus almost certainly never normal feathered. Green fodder, including includes an important fabric-lysine-it gives such harder feathers. Head feathers shall be narrower and stiffer for refusing feather problems. If the damage is going to happen without chicks, then take a sharp knife and scratch featherfollicle in outer end, as the feather could not get out of. The chance of normal feathers has risen significantly. But to be produced thinner and stronger head feathers in birds.
Q. Do you have a favorite mutation or Variety?
A. No, just love the best-looking and simply breed more of them.
Q. Who do you admire musts in the hobby?
A. OH, it was hard - but breeders such has Mannes, Jac Cuyten and Daniel Lütolf are clearly in front. Not necessarily in that order!
Q. What was the best bird you ever breed?
A. Until now, without any topic, a grey she was from 2008. Not an exhibition bird but in breeding, and her two brothers have been around all my bloodlines and added features that everyone needs. The reason for this bird is Mannes and Cuyten. She still breed, it is also an important characteristic to have in his bloodlines!
You can see him here - www.daniellütolf.ch
Q. What was the best bird you have seen from Someone Else's stud?
A. Have not been visiting so much this year. But a white Grey that was at Daniel Lütolf. The most important bird I've ever seen. The reason is probably that the bird has 95% of what I want on my birds.
Q. What is the most important piece of advice you give a beginner, just starting out in the hobby?
A. Welcome here / try and tell them Good Things with keeping and breeding Budgerigar and tell some Really good advice. Also offering them my help with everything thing about Budgerigar. Telling them the vigtigste if they want to Buy stock. I always advisee two Buy with one maybe two breeders and ask the breeder on picking matched pair's and more if just one pair, pair elsewhere There's possibility’s for the youngsters can-match each other. If they get in trouble - ask, ask and they will get help.
Q. What more can we do to promote the hobby ?
A. Hard to say in these times of crisis, where everyone must cut back on consumption. But we can meet up with many people and share prospectuses out of the hobby. Tell about free open house at The event name and address.: Specified time. Get a deal with a manufacture to make cages / aviaries with birds and parts listing out of the hobby.
Raise money by lottery or members to advertise the event where it is free to join. Provide up on all animal-related exhibits and share prospectuses out, etc. All in all proclaim to you / I breed budgies. There are plenty of options.
Q. What do you enjoy must about the hobby? Are you still as enthusiastic as when you first started?
A. I will say that I am more enthusiastic today than I was in the beginning and I am more enjoying breeding today. Previously it was the exhibition of the birds I enjoyed most. After being the most winning of major prizes in the U.S., the last 25 years. So it counts more to show progress and still being able to assert themselves because of the bird is constantly improved. Who are constantly new comets will top. It's hard to hold onto the top. But it is also part of the challenge to breed Budgies.
Han's birdroom interior
Thanks Hans for being a part of this.
A. Kind regards from a Danish Viking-sorry to say, but maybe we are related back 7-900 years ago
If we have lost anything in transit its because of my not so good attempt to translate Danish into English
©2006 barrieshuttbudgerigars S3872.
Q. When did you first start to become interested in budgie and what sparked it off?
A. I was 8 years old when I got my first budgie. In my family we have always bred animals. Horses, cows, pigs, sheep, dogs, pigeons, chickens, and almost everything that can fly.
Q. What did your first aviary / breeding room look like?
A. In a corner of an old hen house, colony breeding.
Q. Where and when did you acquire your first budgerigar?
A. My big brother had bought a swarm of pet budgies and I just had to own some of them.
Q. Do you still have birds from this bloodline?
A. No.
Q. Which bloodlines having given you the must impact on your stud?
A. Back in the 70s Ole Gade was the contemporary leading breeder in Denmark, but the past 15 years, the Mannes birds and subsequent Jac Cuyten. Jac birds have really given my stud a big boost. Subsequently, I have swapped and bought me some Lütolf birds.
Q. Do you have a Specific Way of preparing your birds for the breeding season?
A. When I am finished with the breeding season I run the light output down to eight hours daily and cut emissions gradually increasing the soft foods and egg food in the breeding birds in the aviary too within one month afterwards. The adult birds receive only dry seeds with extra small canary seed and millet added in the mix. The light is switched off completely during the day and only used at night time. In August, I run up again with the soft foods, egg foods, proteins, vitamins, minerals and light. Lights are switched on again for sixteen hours a day.
Q. Do you pair your birds by visual appearance / bloodline or both?
A. I have two different bloodlines. But I do not like outcrossing the two.
Q. How many chick and clutches are your birds Allowed?
A. It's not the way I normally run it on. I have an application running so that the various bloodlines multiply, this way there are always changes in the young chicks. Know your bloodlines and have enough of them so that there's also room for experimentation.
Q. What differences are there in your feeding programme in the breeding and non-breeding?
A. I do have the answer to it but I may then disclose that after I have visited Daniel Lütolf, I spend far more uses of forages and spices!
Q. What Would you change about your setup if you had the chance (and infinite money to do?
A. Large aviaries, more breeding cages (has 46) and a better air circulation system. That’s all!
Q. Do you believe in preventatives medication? If so what do you use?
A. Around August, I give a Trichoderma Plus cure (ronidasola 5%) from Versele-Laga. In order to eliminate coccidia, Trichomonomida and more. Additionally, I give two times Eiwomic with ten days apart, to kill intestinal worms and to prevent mites from settling on the birds. They simply cannot like it and thus decrease the stock. I firmly believe that it also helps to keep French moult check. After each treatment, I give in drinking water for three consecutive days-lactobacilli for improving intestinal flora and also Modstandskrafte. Otherwise I give it continuously one time a week and keeps the acidity of the birds around PH6. Vinegar will help here.
Q. How do you deal with birds with feather disorders?
A. Good question, too!,! One of the biggest reasons that we have birds with missing head feathers in the tail and wings: the soft feathers on broad feathers and are not hard and stiff in the head feathers of wings and tail. Check the chicks in the nest, especially when they are about to grow their head feathers. Some of them with the soft feathers have difficulty in breaking through and they do not, feather rolls around in the early fjersæk and why cysts are placed. Feather bag is damaged and thus almost certainly never normal feathered. Green fodder, including includes an important fabric-lysine-it gives such harder feathers. Head feathers shall be narrower and stiffer for refusing feather problems. If the damage is going to happen without chicks, then take a sharp knife and scratch featherfollicle in outer end, as the feather could not get out of. The chance of normal feathers has risen significantly. But to be produced thinner and stronger head feathers in birds.
Q. Do you have a favorite mutation or Variety?
A. No, just love the best-looking and simply breed more of them.
Q. Who do you admire musts in the hobby?
A. OH, it was hard - but breeders such has Mannes, Jac Cuyten and Daniel Lütolf are clearly in front. Not necessarily in that order!
Q. What was the best bird you ever breed?
A. Until now, without any topic, a grey she was from 2008. Not an exhibition bird but in breeding, and her two brothers have been around all my bloodlines and added features that everyone needs. The reason for this bird is Mannes and Cuyten. She still breed, it is also an important characteristic to have in his bloodlines!
You can see him here - www.daniellütolf.ch
Q. What was the best bird you have seen from Someone Else's stud?
A. Have not been visiting so much this year. But a white Grey that was at Daniel Lütolf. The most important bird I've ever seen. The reason is probably that the bird has 95% of what I want on my birds.
Q. What is the most important piece of advice you give a beginner, just starting out in the hobby?
A. Welcome here / try and tell them Good Things with keeping and breeding Budgerigar and tell some Really good advice. Also offering them my help with everything thing about Budgerigar. Telling them the vigtigste if they want to Buy stock. I always advisee two Buy with one maybe two breeders and ask the breeder on picking matched pair's and more if just one pair, pair elsewhere There's possibility’s for the youngsters can-match each other. If they get in trouble - ask, ask and they will get help.
Q. What more can we do to promote the hobby ?
A. Hard to say in these times of crisis, where everyone must cut back on consumption. But we can meet up with many people and share prospectuses out of the hobby. Tell about free open house at The event name and address.: Specified time. Get a deal with a manufacture to make cages / aviaries with birds and parts listing out of the hobby.
Raise money by lottery or members to advertise the event where it is free to join. Provide up on all animal-related exhibits and share prospectuses out, etc. All in all proclaim to you / I breed budgies. There are plenty of options.
Q. What do you enjoy must about the hobby? Are you still as enthusiastic as when you first started?
A. I will say that I am more enthusiastic today than I was in the beginning and I am more enjoying breeding today. Previously it was the exhibition of the birds I enjoyed most. After being the most winning of major prizes in the U.S., the last 25 years. So it counts more to show progress and still being able to assert themselves because of the bird is constantly improved. Who are constantly new comets will top. It's hard to hold onto the top. But it is also part of the challenge to breed Budgies.
Han's birdroom interior
Thanks Hans for being a part of this.
A. Kind regards from a Danish Viking-sorry to say, but maybe we are related back 7-900 years ago
If we have lost anything in transit its because of my not so good attempt to translate Danish into English
©2006 barrieshuttbudgerigars S3872.
