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Cocks to multiple hens

BUDGERIGARS

ONE of the often-repeated lines of advice that has been bandied around for all of the 30-plus years Chris Huxley and I have been a part of the budgerigar fancy is that you need to breed your own hens arid then you can always buy a good cock to put into them.

While I wholeheartedly agree that you will generally get the best results from owner-bred hens of the right quality in preference to brought-in birds, the difficulty arises when you try to get that elusive “good cock”. How each fancier defines a good cock bird is down to their personal preferences. But certainly we are finding that each year the expectation levels are becoming more and more unrealistic when we are being contacted for outcrosses. With the widespread use ofskilfully prepared to showcase their birds. Those birds are certainly not for sale, as they represent many years of dedication to achieve this level of excellence.

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