BUDGERIGARS
MY FIRST real experience of recessive pieds was when I started judging. I had never bred them and, to be honest, they didn't really appeal to me. I came up against them when I was awarding challenge certificates and in those days the judge could withhold the “certificate” if he or she didn't think the winning birds was up to standard. The recessive pieds were usually poor and a total of only one or two was typical.
In those days, Ron Bissell and his partner Ghalib Al-Nasser were big inrecessive pieds. Ron took me to one side and suggested he gave me two cock birds. I should breed with them so that I knew at first-hand how challenging the variety could be. This was all in an effort to stop me withholding those certificates.
