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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Left
is Jim's impressive and roomy 16 foot by 12 foot Canary
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Inside
Jim has got a total of 24 single cages that can be enlarged
into various sized flight cages by removing sliding dividers.
The photograph on the right shows 6 of the 24 decent sized
cages with dividers removed to make double length flight
cages for his Fifes. |
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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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image on the left shows Jim's great idea in action.
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Right,
you can see the 2 very roomy flights Jim has got 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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shelf you can see in the image is where Jim places his
Fife show cages to both train and access his show team.
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Left,
inside one of the flights where the non breeding adults
are housed, these are Jim's hens. |
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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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