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How to spot show faults

BIRDS & BIRDKEEPING ‘YORKSHIRE VIEWS’ DECEMBER

IN PREVIOUS articles in this series, I have written about the features required on a show standard Yorkshire canary and have detailed how to attempt to breed such a bird. In this final episode of the series, I think it may be useful, especially for the novice exhibitors, to consider the faults that our birds may possess. The point is that if we do not understand and recognise the faults, we are not in a position to correct them. It is important when forming a stud to use birds with as few faults as possible. That said, only the breeder can decide which faults can be tolerated initially, given

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