Gallery 2008
It has taken some time to get to what we consider to be a good all-round quality in our stock, but it seems to be improving apace now. The key has been to achieving a reasonable degree of continuity in our breeding results, since 2002 to allow our progress to be maintained. We have never had bumper seasons, but we are fortunate that the last few years we have generally bred from the pairs that we thought were most important to our progress.
We have now reached the stage where any surprises as to the quality of youngsters is usually in registering improvements visually greater than was expected, but we do find that such improvements are borne out in the quality of youngster that they, themselves, produce. 2004 - 2006 saw the emergence of one line which produced some virtual giants -very buff in feather - and these birds (in retrospective) only lived for a comparatively short time. We still have the bloodlines from which they emerged and continue to note signs of that quality appearing in a more moderate, and hopefully more long-lived, form.
It is hoped to use this page as an on-going record of those birds we breed, year by year, that attract us the most and by this means to follow the development of the stud over the next few years
2008 Youngsters
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Some of the birds which have influenced our breeding stock over the last few years...a couple of them still form part of our breeding team and the others continue to serve us through their offspring!.
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