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Poultry Stud Breeders and Exhibitors Victoria. www.vpfa.com.au Volume 38. No.4. July 2019 Allan Lawrence with his Australian Pit Game Reserve Bird in Show Kathy Holmes with her White Mallard drake Champion Bird in Show at Wangaratta Annual Poultry Club Show BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2019 COMMITTEES AND AREAS OF RESPOSIBILITY FOR 2019 CHAIRPERSON TONY MANN Finance: M. Holmes T. Mann Anne Beaty Shepparton 0412 002 266 Judges: T. Brown, I. Nash, A. Beaty Co-opt K. Smith [email protected] Ted Brown Echuca 5480 2103 Future Planning: J. Hunt, M. Holmes Co-opt N. Penny [email protected] Disputes: R. Moloney, A. Beaty, J. Hunt Brian Daniels Chirnside Park 9727 2336 Standards: A. Woods, M. Holmes, L. Edgley, [email protected] Co-opt K. Smith, M. Miller, Rod Lindsay (Secretary) Lorraine Edgley Swanpool 5768 2317 Expo and Seminars: B. Daniels, M. Holmes, I. Nash, [email protected] T. Brown L. Edgley, A. Beaty Co-opt B. Bergin Michael Holmes Wangaratta 5722 4421 Website: A. Beaty Backup L. 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Simpson A. Veerman A. Woods Account No. 10040953 VPFA Ltd. Membership and Fees for 2019 Adult ‘A’ Class Member with ejournal $50.00 (access to the Journal via members area on our website) Adult ‘A’ Class Member with hardcopy of Journal posted $90.00 Junior ‘B’ Class Member (6 – 16 years of age with ejournal) $10.00 Junior ‘B’ Class Member with hardcopy of Journal posted $45.00 One day exhibitors permit $10.00 Page 2. JOURNAL TROPHY BREEDS Editorial The Journal trophy breeds for 2019 Congratulations to Megg Miller on receiving the Order of Australia for her work and dedication to poultry over many Hardfeather -- Modern Game years. Softfeather -- Pekin Rare Breed -- Faverolles The competition is pretty hot in the Journal awards, Waterfowl -- Bali, Magpie, Orpington (exc Buff) especially Modern Game and Pekin. Keep those results Crested, Welsh Harlequin flowing in. Points are awarded to the best and reserve of these Thank you Sonya King for the great photos from Kyneton, four sections on the following basis. Ballarat and Wimmera. Open class entries only, At Essendon show, Anna Bergin organised several activi- junior class entries do not count ties for junior members. A wonderful idea, I was watching an egg and spoon race and saw an egg fall off a spoon, was waiting for the splat, but no, it bounced. Did not know Ten points for Best of Breed / Variety plus one point for rubber eggs existed. What a great idea, pics in the next each entry there. Journal. There were some amazing decorated eggs at the Reserve of Breed / Variety gets half the points of best. Soft Feather Show. Pics in the next Journal. Please Note: Look forward to catching up at coming shows Cap of 50 points maximum for Best of Breed / Variety and Duckin’ off now 25 points maximum for Reserve Breed /Variety Winners must be members of the PSBEV to earn points, Lorraine and juniors can score if they enter and win in the open classes. PLEASE NOTE Secretaries/Show Secretaries are responsible for forward- Changes to Judges phone numbers:- ing the show results to the Editor. Please do not send to anyone else as there is no guarantee they will get into the Travis Stevenson 0478 134 885 Journal. Jason Callaway 0417 710 401 List of Contents NOTE:- Board Members Page 2. The opinions expressed in the Journal are those of the Editorial Page 3. authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or Chairperson’s Report, Tony’s Corner Page 4. policy of the Poultry Stud Breeders and Exhibitors of Some Rules for Breeding Sebrights Page 5. Victoria. Pics from around the Shows Page 11. The Editor, and Directors of the Board, accept no Geelong Advert Page 15. responsibility for the accuracy of claims made in this Malay bantams Feather Lacing Page 16. Journal. The Editor and Chairperson reserve the right to Club Show Results Page 17. correct, alter, reduce, retype, rearrange or refuse with- Photos Page 24. out prejudice any matter submitted for publication. Page 3. Chairpersons Report July 2019 As this Journal goes to print, I along with a lot of other exhibitors have spent glorious weekends in Shepparton showing birds in the All Purpose Exhibition Shed. First Show was Essendon Poultry Society which had just over 900 birds followed by the Softfeather Show which had just over 1100 birds in total. Our thanks go to the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria for allowing the use of the pens and Shepparton Show Society for the Pavilion and facilities. “Tony’s Corner has been won again by Leigh so there is a new movie question in this edition. I think I’ve made it a little easier, so if you require a chocolate fix, please send your answer to Lorraine before the 30th of August. Tony Mann Tony’s Corner Congratulations to Leigh Mannix who correctly answered the names of movies 3. Star Trek 1V the Voyage Home starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and Movie 4. Billy Jack starring Tom Laughlin (1971). MOVIE No. 5. Man in a Tent exclaims’ - “What in heaven possessed God to make a man like………”The next line comes from a man at the Tent opening “………………….” The task is to complete the 2 sentences and give the full title of the movie. Remember, Wikipedia is a great source of information. Closing date is August 30th 2019. Email [email protected] Page 4. Some of the Rules for Breeding Sebrights TYPE Shape makes the breed, colour distinguishes the variety The standard allots 20 points to Type, 10 points for Tail and 5 points for weight that’s a total of 35%. Stance- a cocky, cobby bird that look like fan tail pigeon with a stance that has the head held back with the chest pushed out that looks like an ‘S’ shape. Probably a recessive trait, I haven’t got any birds that do not do it now, but I once had them. Judges seem to go for compact birds with short backs and the head held back. Tail- The males should have hen feathers i.e. no sickle feathers in the tail and no hackle feathers (a dominant gene). Sebrights should always be fanning their tail, probably because they are easily excited, males more so than females. There is a dominant gene that makes the birds fan their tails all the time. The tail is held at about 110deg to the back (the standard says held high). Some males will pull their tail closer to a squirrel tail position when with females or when in front of strangers. Lifting the tail from the horizontal is a recessive gene or maybe several genes interacting for the different angles. The angle of the tail that a breeding female affects the males she produces. Wings- Sebrights should have large drooping wings carried low. This is caused by dominant genes, where as tight- ly held wings held up is caused by recessive genes. This effect can be produced from drooping wing parents every now and again when each of the parents carry the uplifting recessive gene. There are four levels of wing carriage ranging from very high, to high, then low and very low. It is possible that two or more genes are interacting. Short legs, and thighs set “well apart” (I think this is a dominant gene) so if only one of a mated pair has short legs they will produce about 50% with short legs that carry the gene for long legs. The long legs and neck creates a gorky look . The short legs and neck will create a compact bird The broad and prominent breast” required by the Standard is a dominant gene, also the “legs short and well apart”. I think that the narrow body which is associated with hocked legs is a recessive trait. The narrow body tends to produce hocked legs. the broad body allows the legs to be strait and apart Page 5. Split wings is where there is a large gap between the primaries and secondary feathers. This is a recessive gene and like any recessive trait it is difficult to breed out. Full sweep of back - a good flourish of coverts or cushion at the base of the tail is needed to create a sweep up from the back to the tail feathers, this is because it makes the back look shorter with a desirable ‘U’ shape outline. There is a dominant gene that creates this feature.