Studs of a lifetime
I AM not a “down Memory Lane” person, but sometimes it’s worth looking back at the past – especially birds and studs.
It’s well documented that budgies took a huge step forward in the 1950s with Ken Farmer and his longflights. It’s said that birds suddenly came with bigger faces and more feather. If we talk to any of the breeders of that period they will all tell the story of Ken’s birds. I did not meet Ken Farmer until much later and I remember his birds as being real show birds that oozed quality.
The next step forward came with Joe Collier, from Chipstead, in Surrey. He bred a
