2007 Rutland
show winner

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Jim Moreton, Grantham Bird Show Manager invites you to see his set up and some of his birds.

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.

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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On 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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