Cage & Aviary Birds

Thoughts on the future of the Budgerigar Society Club Show

BUDGERIGARS

THE dust has settled and it's time to think seriously about the future of the Club Show. I enjoyed the show last September and liked many of the birds. I thought the judging was greatly improved on recent years. The judges seemed to be looking for show birds and those big ugly birds were not winning.

However, in the show hall the talk was that the event has run out of steam at the Dome in Doncaster. Personally, I am happy at the Dome, but we have witnessed a decline of the show there in recent years. I fully appreciate we have a team of workers from the Yorkshire area who erect and dismantle the staging, so there is a reluctance to move the location. The Dome meets our needs and there is plenty

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