BUDGERIGARS
LITTLE did I know the long-term impact it would have on my life when as a 13-year-old I obtained some pet budgerigars.
I bred them for a couple of seasons and then sold them on. I purchased the birds with money earned from my paper round, seven days a week, for today’s equivalent of £1.25 per week. The birds cost about one pound per pair; slightly more for some very colourful Danish recessive pieds. This set off a chain of events as follows.
Jim Huxley, one of my close neighbours, was interested in the birds and used to pop in from time to time to see what was going on. Later in life Jim worked on a pig farm in Kent and started keeping his own budgerigars.live locally) would visit other fanciers almost every weekend. We’d travel to shows together and generally were as keen as mustard.
