Motor City Bird Breeders (10/27/2001) - OH
Judge: Paul Crow
Exhibitors: 7
Entries: 72

Judge's Comments:

The Detroit area has had several top Lovebired exhibitors for many years now and this show was no exception. It also hosts a bird mart, which packs another section of the building the show was housed in. If all the Lovebirds that were for sale had been entered, we may have topped the 150 entry mark. I saw a number of real good sale birds.

RARES: Just 2 Black-cheeked in the Section. One old and one young. The young bird had better size and condition. The older bird needed some show box training.

FISCHER'S: This Section was a delight! 23 birds! Better than 25% of the entries came in the Section and it was reflected in the top bench as well. The Green Fischer's had the most entries, 7. The top 4 in this class were good birds. The first 2 made the top bench, including the show winner. There were 3 young Greens. One showed great color and size, but was hindered by stress bars. I had 5 Yellows, including 4 young birds. The club was using old show classifications and some of the Yellows or Dilutes needed to be further broken out due to color variation. We discussed the varying degree of suffusion. Some of the young had quite good body color with little variation in the mottling and nice orange heads. A young nice, clean Lutino made the top bench. The blue needed a whiter face, showing too much gray. There were several young Blues which needed show training or conditioning. I also had 1 Dark Green entered. The top 3 birds in the Section were all of good size and color.

MASKED: 4 entries. The top bird was a young good sized Green. The color markings were just right. While it finished first in the Section, it was hurt by a bloody cere. The 3 other birds, a Yellow, Lutino and White were all smaller birds in need of conditioning.

GREEN PEACHFACED: 10 birds. Several of the birds had either a dark factor or some violet in them and a couple needed to be reclassified. The entries were mainly Green, Medium Green, OF and Medium OF. I did have 1 young Opaline and it ended up first. It had superior condition and deportment to the rest of the Section.

BLUE PEACHFACED: 12 birds entered and 10 different Classes represented. I had a Medium Blue which had great breast size and was a better bird, but was missing most of it's toe nails. There was a Seagreen YellowFaced entered, but its head was too narrow to merit advancing. The top birds ended up being a WF Blue, which was steady, and in great condition with a clean head. Second was a very active Seagreen, which gave me a few good minutes to properly evaluate it.

GREEN PIED: No entries.

BLUE PIED: Two birds. The Blue Pied beat out a Dilute(Silver) Pied. Neither was able to advance to the top bench.

AMERICAN CINNAMON: Two birds. One an OF and the other a WF Violet, which was quite a pleasing color. Both birds hit the top 10, but both could have used bit more bulk in the breast area.

AUSTRALIAN CINNAMON: 9 entries. Another section with a variety of clases represented. There was a Violet WF which had a great blue color contrasting the light body. An OF, a young OF and a Blue made up the top 3 birds.

VIOLET: 8 birds in the Section, mostly WF. We saw how the many variations of Violet and the differing dark factors affected the colors of the birds.

CHAMPION: None

Barb Theeke's Green Fischer's finished as the top bird in the show. It was a rock steady bird. Great size, color, condition and deportment all day long. The top 6 or 7 birds could probably place quite well in any show. Barb had several other birds on the top bench and also had the top Cockatield for a double win.

It was a good weekend for Fischer's. I flew back into Harrisburg on Sunday and was able to catch the 2nd day of a 2-day show. Lee was judging 140 plus birds and the Buckley's Green Fischer's won both days.