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Hello everyone. Today I have a few minutes
of free time and I want to use these minutes chatting with you. First, I
want thank you all, from of the bottom of my heart for all the private
e-mails from many parts of the world, wishing me well and a fast
recovery. I hope! I really miss my birds in New Jersey! I would like to
be there during the best time of the year, the breeding season! However,
I am on phone with my people that take care of my bird room as much as I
can. The breeding program for 2007 without any doubt would be much more
successful!
By taking good care and most of all
providing the necessary nutritious foods, and following the programs of
feeding to the letter, success can be easily achieved. My people are the
best, and they are doing all that they can to take good care of the
birds in my bird room, however, when I'm there the chores are more
effective and more fruitful as well. There is an old saying in Italian.
"L'occhio del padrone ingrassa in Cavallo. More or less translated "The
eye of the owner is fatting the horse?"
My helpers are very dedicated,
especially Rosa who not only feeds the birds everyday, seven days a
week, but also is responsible for packing and shipping. (She gets paid
well for doing good jobs). She tries very hard to fulfill the chores
very responsibly. I must confess if it weren't for Rosa's dedication in
the last five years of my ordeals, it would be the end of my long bird
breeding activity.
In the last several days I have been
reading as much of your postings that I could. From memory, I try to
express my seventy-three cents of my thoughts on several topics. For Mr.
Jerry Salomon of Canada, in this world of ours, there are many different
sizes of men and women. Per example, a tall person like me married a
very short woman. Together we had four wonderful children, all of pretty
good size, all in good health, thank God for that! European Goldfinches
are available in various sizes accordingly to the region of their
habitat. All the European Goldfinches, large and small, are all the same
and breed well together regardless of their size. Are you getting the
point, Mr. Salomon?
In 1976, I asked a color bred judge that
came to judge our show in New Jersey to legally bring a couple of
European Goldfinches from Sicily. In those days I had couple of the
larger size European Goldfinches imported from Northern Europe. I
purchased these larger birds in the 60's from a huge Pet Shop in New
York City. Well, to make a long story short, I have been breeding these
birds, large and small, for decades now, and I may add, with excellent
results. I have a small number of European Goldfinches in different
sizes. The smaller size European Goldfinches breed better and survives
better in North America. Are you are getting the point Mr. Salomon?
With much dismay, I read Ms. Kathleen's
experience with a breeder that insists on selling her a proven pair of
Canaries and Ms. Kathleen wound up with a pair of females. Ultimately,
she had to purchase the singing canary that she really wanted from a Pet
Shop. She should have insisted on getting her money back for the
dishonest so call bird fancier? Shame, shame!
Ms. Kathleen, as Joy cat stated, do not
get discouraged because of one bad individual. The overwhelming majority
of the bird fanciers that I know are very honest and sincere bird
fanciers. However, always be careful who you deal with. A friend of mine
purchased some birds from a pet shop here in Naples. About ten days
later some of the birds got sick and died. He returned to the shop with
his receipt, and without any question, he got his money back.
Many decades ago, when I just was
starting out with Canaries, I never was fooled by any so called
champions and never paid their outrageous prices. I always purchased
healthy birds not from champions stock (BS). In many cases I purchased
very older birds dumped to pet shops by the so-called champion, and with
patience and TLC I established a good, strong breeding stock. As far as
I'm concerned, when you get $50 or $75 for color bred Canaries, a
Gloster, a Border fancy or any other similar bird, you are paying the
right price; and for this price, you should be getting one quality bird.
Of course, the Pet Shop should be able to get the better price on the
above mentioned. Take into consideration that they pay more or less of
the above price for each bird. Pet Shops and bird stores have very high
overhead expenses to deal with, they are in business to make a decent
profit.
Remembering a few years ago, some very
greedy breeders or dealers were selling Spanish Timbrados male Canaries
for $400.00 each? Not anymore, Timbrados Canaries breed and reproduce
themselves better than Cockroaches. Why such high prices? Well, I know
of some individuals that import some of these birds from Spain, they pay
more than $100 per bird, just for the transportation and quarantine
alone. Now a lot of people produce Timbrados by the hundreds all over
the world. I saw Timbrados, males and females, for sale in the Reggio
Emilia, Italy show for less than $5.00 each. Friends, the fire doesn't
last very long! Getting the point?
My good friend Jon in Florida, you don't
have to pay a lot of money for breeding stock. In my personal
experiences for many decades, I learned that so-called Champion birds in
many cases don't produce a good exhibition. Furthermore, I am asking who
are these judges that award these champion breeders. What is their
credential? Are they professional breeders of the species that they
judge or did they just keep a couple pairs of Society Finches some time
ago and now they are judging Colorbred canaries? Professionally
speaking, I have seen year after year high cost judges from far away
places performing a very poor evaluation judging job on all the of the
birds. I will give an example of the score sheet of a high scoring color
bred Canary in one show somewhere in the world. This particular bird had
a total of 94 points on the score sheet. Wow! On the score sheet the
very last category was IMPRESSION: 5 points. That judge gave only 2
points for impression. Actually, that judge had a very bad impression
for that 94-point bird! How can it be? Scenario #2: A really bad bird,
in the same show, scored a total of 87 points, that same judge this time
gave the bad specimen 5 for impression. I personally confronted this
judge and I asked why he had such irregularity in the score sheet? He
didn't like that I questioned his poor performances, he replied to me,
"This is the way it is done." I reminded him that I was the one that
helped establish the Colorbred Canaries Score Sheet and judging standard
guidelines and indicated the contrary of his poor judging performance.
Well, let's leave it as that! Judging performance as such as above has
created a lot of false champions! I again repeat, don't let the
champions fool you!
I know of sincere fanciers that pay
$200.00 each for Canaries, such birds didn't even produce bird good
enough to be sold to pet shops for house pets.
If you breed for example Greens,
Bronzes, Browns and other dark canaries, unless you produce show
quality, even many pet shops will not take your surplus. You are better
off pairing let's say a poor quality Bronze to a poor quality Red Orange
Lipchrome, or Green to Yellow frost or no frost. The offspring that you
produce from these pairings and others similar pairings will be highly
accepted by pet shops and you at least recover some of the cost for seed
and other expenses that occurs in the bird room.
Some fanciers are talking about getting
and insisting on obtaining a pedigree of the birds they purchase. A
pedigree for what? How can you prove that the pedigree given is correct
and true? The best way to create your own breeding stock is to keep an
accurate record of your breeding season and when you know for sure the
record characteristics of your birds, perhaps you can pass your records
on to other fellow fanciers? In the photo album of the Abba Group you
will find a sample of the records pairing of your birds. Also, you can
find the same paring sample records in the Abba photo album @
www.abbaseed.com <http://www.abbaseed.com/> , click on Photo Album to
view it.
For those fellow fanciers that are just
like me and have not started the breeding program. If you wish, you may
want to go to Post #3185 of March 18, 2005 in the Abba group. There is
the whole list of the practical pairing of the Melanin colorbred
Canaries. You can follow the guidelines and you can produce excellent
exhibition birds that you can take pride in exhibiting. Try to pair
frost to non-frost for a better feather structure. The Lipchrome
colorbred Canaries are simple to pair. Yellow, Dominant white, Recessive
White, Red Orange should be paired frost to non-frost, the results are
simple. The aim is to produce good feather structure and good color that
is achieved by feeding the birds the right food and supplements. Dry
seed alone will not produce good color yellows or reds. For the reds the
proper doses of color enhancer must be supplied in the beginning at day
7 after the young Red Orange Ground Canaries hatched, whether Lipchrome
or melanin.
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ABBASEEDBIRDSQANDA/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/COM_USA/?yguid=47202339
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ColorbredCanaries101Genetics/?yguid=472023\
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EuropeanGoldFinch/?yguid=47202339
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GPA101911/?yguid=47202339
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NFSS/?yguid=47202339
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/timbrado/?yguid=47202339
Best regards to all,
G.A. Abbate
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