North Wales Fife Fancy Canary Club Show 2009

Loreto Centre

Sunday 8th November 2009

Judges Engaged: Mr J Watkins, Mr D Weaver, Mr K Roberts

Main Awards:

Best Fife Canary In Show McEwen & McGlinchey - Heavily Variegated Buff Hen

Best Opposite Sex in Show G Spencer - Heavily Variegated Buff Cock

Best Champion Fife Canary in Show McEwan & McGlinchey - Heavily Variegated Buff Hen

Best Novice Fife Canary in Show J I Ross - Heavily Variegated Buff Hen

Best Flighted C & G Vaughan - Self Green Buff Hen

Best Junior Shane Roberts - Heavily Variegated Yellow Hen

The 6th Anniversary North Wales Fife Fancy Canary Club was won by the McEwen & McGlinchey Partnership with a lovely heavily variegated buff hen (pictured below - both pictures) with 670 birds benched

Gerald Spencer took best opposite sex in show with a heavily variegated buff cock (left) with Best Novice going to J I Ross's Heavily Variegated Buff Hen(right)

The Champion colour specials were well split amongst the exhibitors with both the Roby Roy partnership and Tony Carline taking two awards each, R H Parry won the self cinnamon special, with a tidy variegated white hen from Clarke and Gillott taking the best Allied to white award. I was pleased with my teams performance, my variegated yellow cock won his class of 25, with his brother taking 4th in the same class, a performance matched by my two heavily variegated yellow cock brothers, again taking first and fourth this time in a class of 27.

A well supported novice section, with 228 birds benched was won by J I Ross's heavily variegated buff hen, the Herd & Summerville partnership enjoyed a good show taking three of the colour specials, Best variegated and both cinnamon colour specials, Ian Humphreys took the best Novice clear award, with R Shaw taking best green and Paul field completing the line up with the best novice allied to white award