Post by barrieshutt on Nov 3, 2011 17:39:44 GMT
Moheb Nabil a Breeder of quality Japanese crests
Without the internet we would not be privileged to view some of today’s super budgerigars, an example was on facebook where I first came to view some super crests and Japanese crests , I thought it only right these should be shared with other breeders around the World.
Without the internet we would not be privileged to view some of today’s super budgerigars, an example was on facebook where I first came to view some super crests and Japanese crests , I thought it only right these should be shared with other breeders around the World.
Moheb lives in Cairo, Egypt, with a population of 6.76 million spread over 453 square kilometres, Cairo is by far the largest city in Egypt and as I said before, without the internet we would never have found Moheb and his stud of budgerigars amongst all those millions.
Like many of us Moheb was an early starter with budgerigars and has now completed 28 years in this wonderful hobby.
I asked Moheb what his secret was in producing these outstanding birds, his answer was exactly the same way as my breeding programme, here we are thousands of miles apart, in different time zones, in totally different climates, yet we share the knowledge so desired in breeding quality stock.
Moheb’s stud comprised of Crested and Normal English budgerigars that was until six years ago when he got the opportunity to purchase one male and two female Japanese crested birds.
I asked Moheb what his secret was in producing these outstanding birds, his answer was exactly the same way as my breeding programme, here we are thousands of miles apart, in different time zones, in totally different climates, yet we share the knowledge so desired in breeding quality stock.
Moheb’s stud comprised of Crested and Normal English budgerigars that was until six years ago when he got the opportunity to purchase one male and two female Japanese crested birds.
Using the correct breeding programme he has bred and improved this variety and achieved many colour variations.
Once this new stock was acquired the male was run with the two females, this produced some half-brothers and half-sisters, the better of these chicks were then paired to each other.
I must add this is one of my favourite pairings but do remember, this pairing will throw out both the good and bad features that were hidden away in those chicks back ground, a background Moheb had no knowledge about.
The next mating was pairing the original Japanese crested adult cock to normal English bred hens, the two Japanese crested original hens were also paired to English bred cocks, this worked well and improved the size in the chicks.
Now Moheb had a pool of Japanese crested and he was able to pair Japanese crested to Japanese crested.
Where we may have then become content with the quality of our stud, Moheb had other ideas, he then selected the Japanese crested birds with the better feather, the full circular crest became a priority and the birds with the largest back frill and the better feather on the wings were his next breeding project.
He does continue to introduce good quality English normal into his crests as this will maintain size throughout. His next step is to pair the best Normal hen with his best Japanese crested cock, we must wait and see what they produce.
Just look at the outstanding birds he is now producing.
Once this new stock was acquired the male was run with the two females, this produced some half-brothers and half-sisters, the better of these chicks were then paired to each other.
I must add this is one of my favourite pairings but do remember, this pairing will throw out both the good and bad features that were hidden away in those chicks back ground, a background Moheb had no knowledge about.
The next mating was pairing the original Japanese crested adult cock to normal English bred hens, the two Japanese crested original hens were also paired to English bred cocks, this worked well and improved the size in the chicks.
Now Moheb had a pool of Japanese crested and he was able to pair Japanese crested to Japanese crested.
Where we may have then become content with the quality of our stud, Moheb had other ideas, he then selected the Japanese crested birds with the better feather, the full circular crest became a priority and the birds with the largest back frill and the better feather on the wings were his next breeding project.
He does continue to introduce good quality English normal into his crests as this will maintain size throughout. His next step is to pair the best Normal hen with his best Japanese crested cock, we must wait and see what they produce.
Just look at the outstanding birds he is now producing.
