Lessons Doug and Alf taught me
DOUG Sadler was an exceptionally successful beginner breeder from Emsworth, Hampshire. After a few years, he was joined in partnership with Alf Ormerod from Lancashire, to form the super-successful Ormerod & Sadler partnership – taking best in show at the BS Club Show on two consecutive occasions with a dark green cock.
At the very beginning of my time with exhibition budgies, I was so lucky to find the person who I think had the biggest influence on me, with not only his take on life as a whole, but also how exhibition budgies should be looked after. Yet even Doug needed that that bit of help – which is where
