A little on Jim's
birdkeeping history
1990 was year Jim started
keeping Fife canaries after 15 successful years with Lovebirds,
breeding and showing them with great results. In 1992 Jim entered
the North of England show and came away with the Best Fife in
Show out of an amazing 1,200 birds, quite a result I am sure
you will agree, this has since proved to be his best result
in the show arena up to date but Jim is still aiming high and
working to get that special bird we all dream of breeding.
Jim
and Grantham Bird Society
Jim has been a member for over 20 years and has been
as active in the club in all that time helping out as much as
he can. Jim was the society president back in 2003.
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Jim
has an impressive and roomy 16 foot by 12 foot Canary
birdroom. Inside this Jim has got a total of 24 single
cages that can be enlarged into various sized flight cages
by removing sliding dividers. When
breeding Jim has a novel way of giving his Fife hens privacy
while on the nest and also recording all the details of
the breeding pair and any resulting young birds. He pins
on the front of the cage a square of hardboard that shelters
the nestpan from curious eyes and then writes all information
about the pair on it too. |
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Left,
you can see inside
one of the flights where the non breeding adults are
housed, these are Jim's hens.
The
2 very roomy flights are opposite to his cages. They
are about 3 foot deep by 8 foot in length and are ideal
for exercising all Jim's stock either adult of young
birds
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On
the right you can see how Jim begins to train his young
birds for the show bench.
He
hangs a Fife show cage onto the front of the cage holding
young birds and lets them go in and out as they please.
This method gets the birds used to the cage and then helps
to steady them down for future times on the show bench. |
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Jim
can be seen on the left checking out some of his young and
hoping he has a big show winner in there somewhere. |
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the right is one of Jim's Fifes he is hopeful will do well
in the shows, a Buff Cinnamon Variegated. |
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Jim
Moreton holding the above Fife one of his many fine looking
Fife Canaries that he has bred in 2007. |
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