Archive for Jan 2015
Member Profile – Suzanne Lucas (Member of Larkwood Aviaries)
Suzanne Lucas (Member of Larkwood Aviaries) I entered into the budgie world by default, when I met and married my husband, Johan. Until we met I did not know anyone who kept and bred budgies, and thinking back on those days I remember there being an aviary of birds in the back garden where he…
Read MoreNorbert Kirstein Visits Jo Mannes in Freiburg
Norbert Kirstein | May 30, 2012 As arranged, my breeding colleague Jens Pollmann and I visited Jo Mannes in March. After a warm welcome with Linda serving up coffee and cake we struck up a lively conversation about how the breeding season was going. Jo commented that he was very pleased with the overall very good…
Read MoreFallows – Part 4: colour Varients
FALLOWS Colour Varieties/Colour Production/Genetics & History Colour Varieties: Fallow Yellow (Light Green): Mask: yellow, ornamented by six evenly spaced large round brown throat spots, the outer two being partially covered at the base by cheek patches. Cheek patches: violet. General body colour: back, rump, breast, flanks and underparts, yellowish green. Markings: on cheeks, back of…
Read MoreFallows – Part 1: English Fallow Mutation
English Fallow budgerigar mutation The English Fallow budgerigar mutation is one of approximately 30 mutations affecting the colour of budgerigars. At least three types of Fallow, the German, English and Scottish, all named after their country of origin, have been established, and although none of these types is common they are superficially similar, but adult…
Read MoreThe Wonders of Chickweed
Terry Tuxford | May 23, 2012 Chickweed Over the years there have been many references to providing our birds with Chickweed because of its benefits. I thought I would do a little research to try and find out why. Chickweed is a plant of Eurasian origin that’s made itself quite at home everywhere that Europeans…
Read MoreWild-Type Budgies
They say “A picture tells a thousand words!” Well in order to get across what AWEBSA means by ‘Wild-Type” Budgies please consider the images below and we trust it would clear the matter up for you. Perhaps it’s a case of David and Goliath. If you had any doubts the Wild-Type…
Read MoreFor our Wild-Type lovers
Images of Pet Budgies that would fit the AWEBSA classification of “Pet Budgie” as per our Constitution and Rules: Housed indoors in a beautiful cage …
Read MoreBreeding Spangles
Breeding Spangles by Ghalib Al-Nasser History No other mutation has created so much excitement with Budgerigar breeders as the Spangle. Maybe it is because of the fact that the last mutation to arrive to the UK, the Dominant Pied, was back in 1958. Therefore, news of the appearance of the Spangle was met with…
Read MoreThe Stud that Defines the Future
Daniel Lutolf: The Stud that Defines the Future By James Yangzon In every generation the exhibition budgerigar industry yields a stud master that is quite unique, creative and perceptive that it seems at first glance the person do not belong to his generation. It is only after a while when the consistency in breeding and…
Read MoreFallows by (Late) Peter Needham
Back in history: Subject: Fallows by (Late) Peter Needham 28 March 2005 Background Our first fallows came about by chance, in 1973, when we imported two lutinos and a sky blue cock from U.K. breeders, J. and R. Dennis. We bred a red-eyed chick from the sky blue paired to a grey green hen…
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