Classic Massey & Ferguson Enthusiast

VOTING IS NOW open for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPOTY) People’s Choice Award 2022 run by the Natural History Museum (NHM), London. There are 25 images in the running to win, with three bird species featured, chosen from 38,575 entries a

OVER THE SECOND lockdown I needed a project to keep me going. I decided it was a great opportunity to revamp the smallish outside aviary shed (approximately 7ft x 6ft) to contain a couple of slim flight cages and a bank of three double breeders. I st

AS ALWAYS, anything from Mr Liddiatt is of great interest and I have a couple of points that may be relevant to his letter “Lizard colour variants” (November 23, 2022). In his book The Encyclopaedia of Cage and Aviary Birds, C.H. Rogers mentions some

WITH all the preparation time that fanciers put into their show teams, it is not unreasonable that many arrive at the show hall with high hopes of how their most favoured exhibits will perform in front of the judge on the day. However, livestock (and

I BISES are some of the most characterful of waterbirds, with their downward-turned bills and inquisitive, confiding eyes. And one of the small compensations for the worldwide climate-change crisis for UK bird enthusiasts is that we now have the oppo

THE coscoroba swan (Coscoroba coscoroba) is the smallest of the seven species of swan and differs sufficiently to warrant it being assigned to its own genus. Unlike the Cygnus swans, it lacks the facial skin that approaches the eyes and has a more fl

A.A. MILNE has a lot to answer for with the wise old owl in the Christopher Robin stories, as usually owls are not terribly bright. Edna my (male) Bengal eagle-owl, however, was an exception. His quarters were an open-fronted mews. At the time we did

PG: SO HOW do you sex your mealies? JD: The best way to be accurate is to have their DNA checked. If you send one or two it costs about £8 each, but send a lot away you get them tested for £6.50 each. It saves a lot of heartache. You know every one w

THE society had to cancel its October monthly colour competition and the Peter’s Swindle because of the bird flu pandemic in the area, reports president Ghalib Al-Nasser. However, members attending were entertained by the guest speaker for the evenin

THE society was down on numbers for the October 22 meeting with 21 members and guests in attendance, reports Terry Tuxford. This was due to holidays, side effects from covid booster jabs and a family 18th birthday celebration. Society chairman Jim La

SEVERAL members of the South Western ZFC exhibited at the Jurassic Coast Open Show on October 30, and won most of the prizes on offer for the zebra finch section and the best Bengalese and Bengalese breeder ones too. These members travelled from vari

A BUMPER entry of 496 birds were entered at the Kent Gloster Society show held on October 1 2022. The entry was boosted by three large teams of birds from the partnerships of Skeffington & Gill, Goddard & Rands and Rose & McCarthy. All three partners

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For lots of enthusiasts, one tractor simply isn’t enough! Admittedly, it’s probably the same whatever you’re interested in. Whether you’re passionate about cameras, lawnmowers or watches, you’ll inevitably end up with more than you need. Then again,

As we noted on the News pages of the last issue, the 71st British National Ploughing Championships took place at Glapwell, on the Chatsworth Estate in north-east Derbyshire, over the weekend of October 8th-9th. The event, organised by kind permission

The 500 Series tractors from Massey Ferguson were very important to the company, especially in the European marketplace. Right from the mid-1970s launch through to the early 1980s, this range provided the company’s main driving force in many countrie

It’s particularly nice at this time of year – with the temperatures plummeting, the dark evenings and the worst of winter still ahead of us – to look back and have a metaphorical bask in those lazy, hazy days of summer. It provided a great season of

The day had finally come to hand this Massey Ferguson 135 back to its owner, Alan Braithwaite. As he only lives a few miles away from my workshop, his plan was to drive the finished tractor home and, even though it was quite a warm September day, he

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