A Guide to Showing and Exhibiting Your Canary - Tips on How to Prepare and Care for Your Canary Before, During and After a Show or Exhibition

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Various. A Guide to Showing and Exhibiting Your Canary - Tips on How to Prepare and Care for Your Canary Before, During and After a Show or Exhibition

A Guide to. Showing Your. Canary

Contents

SHOWING

CARE DURING THE MOULT

Where the Early Bird Scores

First Symptoms of the Moult

A Safe and Speedy Moult

When Birds are off Colour

PREPARATION FOR SHOW

Clean and Paint the Show Cages

Treatment of Show Birds

Evils of Over-Showing

Study the Judges

EXHIBITING AND WASHING

EXHIBITING

INFINITE PATIENCE NEEDED

PREPARATION FOR EXHIBITION

HANDS MUST BE CLEAN

GIVE TIME TO RECOVER

SHOW CAGES

BACK FROM THE SHOW

Descriptions and Standards of Perfection of the most popular Exhibition Canaries. THE BELGIAN CANARY

THE BORDER CANARY

THE CRESTED NORWICH

REASONS FOR DECLINE

REMARKABLE HEADGEAR

THE DUTCH FRILL

THE GLOSTER CANARY

THE GREEN CANARY

THE LANCASHIRE COPPY CANARY

ORIGINALLY MANCHESTER COPPY

THE LIZARD CANARY

PAIR GOLD TO SILVER

THE LONDON FANCY

THE NORWICH PLAINHEAD

GOOD HEADS IMPORTANT

THE SCOTS OR SCOTCH FANCY

“QUICK INTO POSITION”

WHITE CANARIES

THE LETHAL FACTOR

SLATE-BLUE CANARY

THE YORKSHIRE CANARY

WORLD-WIDE POPULARITY

THE QUESTION OF COLOUR

Double Yellowing

Buffs Worth their Weight in Gold

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Tips on How to Prepare

and Care for Your Canary

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It is essential that the Show rules and Schedule of classes be read carefully before the entry forms are filled up. Should any doubt arise as to the correct class in which a particular bird should be entered advice can be obtained from the Show Secretary or a member of the Show Committee. All completed entry forms, together with the necessary entry fees, should be sent to the Show Secretary well before the closing date. Travelling case labels must be firmly fixed to the outside of the travelling cases and the under part of the labels clearly filled in with the return name and address: rail fares must be paid for both outward and return journeys. Before the birds are packed into their travelling cases the water vessels must be emptied and seed vessels filled. Birds should be sent to Shows by trains that will get them to their destination in good time for staging. As soon as birds arrive back from Shows they should be given a dish of soft food, seed and water and then returned to their stock cages. Potential exhibitors are advised to visit at least one show to gain experience before attempting to show any birds of their own.

In their place you will observe two narrow strips of feathers more brilliant and deeper in hue. These are the new feathers coming. The old ones, having faded in colour, look pale and washed out beside the latest arrivals.

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