Breed Standards for Dummies

Lou · **Joined:** Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:12 am **Posts:** 387

Thanks everyone any bit of advise is appreciated. No I didn't get your PM, hope you don't loose to much stuff. Tommy "please expain"

bunyanuternie · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:31 pm **Posts:** 2903

I think Rick Kemps books are Great , I saw a standard on the net for $180 so I'd definately be going for the Bellsouth version

bunyanuternie · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:31 pm **Posts:** 2903

Penola Poultry wrote:

having said that, i recently had birds disqualified by a judge who did not know the standards and i was really really peeved! As a general rule of thumb club shows and feature shows have judges of a much higher calibre than local agricultural shows!

I hope you corrected them mate , I think it is very important that the judges judge to the standard , and not to what they like , Even though I do not show much , I read a lot and love reading , My Heroe is Peter Smith , and his thoughts are exactly that , Judge to the standard , each judge may interperet the standard slightly differently , but ....The standard is still the standard . and they should know their stuff if they are judging .
I still think you should put your Orps in a show lou , and Hopefully you'll get a nice helpfull judge who knows his orps and will try to encourage you in a nice way , even if they have a few little faults , If all of our birds were perfect , we'd all be bored , and have nothing to talk about :lol:

It's our 100th annual show at Nanango next year and I am going to try to encourage all APF members to travel and support our show , we are hoping to get a very experienced judge who judged at Caboolture last weekend , and he is keen to help us out , He is one of the older judges who has helped me , I love talking to the judges even if I'm not showing .get the standard ,and put them in a show even if the judge won't help , some of us will try to help , we all can learn off each other I believe .

Tahir · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:58 pm

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It's our 100th annual show at Nanango next year and I am going to try to encourage all APF members to travel and support our show , we are hoping to get a very experienced judge who judged at Caboolture last weekend , and he is keen to help us out , He is one of the older judges who has helped me , I love talking to the judges even if I'm not showin

If someone offers me and my bro a lift, sure why not

Egglive · **Joined:** Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:58 am **Posts:** 267

Nanango Show - sounds good - I like a country drive.

bunyanuternie · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:31 pm **Posts:** 2903

and hopefully lou can bring her orps , and her new breed standard

Tahir · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:13 pm

If I could go then I would enter your OEG's that you gave me and some Aussies

and Belgium's for ella, but we don't have much of a chance getting there :roll:

Egglive · **Joined:** Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:58 am **Posts:** 267

To enter birds, wouldn't you have to have them there the day before. This year did judging start on Friday?

b&p · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:53 pm

I have the Polish standard if anyone wants it. Just PM me.

Cheers

bunyanuternie · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:31 pm **Posts:** 2903

I have The Sussex ,RIR,Pekin and Australorpe, But I can't Email them I'm happy to go through them with anyone who is interested in them , Especially the sussex .

At Nanango the birds need to be penned py 8 am on the saturday

I will start a new thread for it as I don't want to take away from the
"Breeds standards for Dummies" But I think country shows are a good place to start , if you get a nice judge . I owe a lot to some of the judges that told me nicely about things I need to concentrate on .
Their is no need for anyone to rude but constuctive criticism is ok .

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