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BUDGERIGARS

SINCE I was a teenager, I have kept records of my birdkeeping expenses. I was always told that birdkeeping was an expensive hobby and that “it can run away with money”! With limited resourses, it was essential to ensure that any money was accounted for. That may seem a mean approach, to look at every penny spent!

Today, we (myself, wife Pam and son Tom) keep records of expenses (the cost of outcrosses, seed, supplements and additives, equipment and consumables, plus show-entry fees) and also the income from the sale of birds and prize

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