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Part 3
On the First Saturday in September 2007 it was a
crowded house in Barneveld (NL), honouring its
history as a town of Chicken and Eggs. Under
supervision of the Local Club ‘Gallinova’, several
Club Shows were hold in the Market Halls: the
Young Animal Day of Gallinova, the Brahma Club
Show, the Silkie Club Show and the Club Show of
the brand-new Dutch Serama Club. At the same
time, the Rosecomb Bantam Club Show was held at
another location in Barneveld.
In the following, a photo report on the Serama Club
Show and the Brahma Club Show.
Left: The biggest (a Columbia Brahma
cockerel) and the smallest (Serama cock)
together in the picture.
Photo: Klaas Dillema.
SERAMA SHOW
Text and photos: Monique de Vrijer.
Picture right: When I arrived early in the morning
Drakie, the Serama cock of Sigrid van Dort, was already
present. Drakie was used during the day as an example
how the ideal Serama should be. Drakie is a stunning
cockerel who managed to pose and 'strut' for over one
and a half hour continuously. After a pause he went 'on
stage' again, several times.
Picture below: This is how Sigrid had built up the Serama
Show Stand. It was a good idea to put chairs around, so
the visitors could sit down and admire the Serama and
take pictures.
In these pictures you can see the chickens of 'Just one
Serama' (owner Henk van Vaassen) who have thought of a
special way of showing their birds. They are a pair of silky
Serama named ‘Jopie’ (the pullet) and ‘Giddy-up’ (the
cockerel). Jopie (born at January 1, 2007) is the first
Serama with a certificate, meaning: Jopie is a true Serama!
Here is Jopie being scaled. She gained 85 points and from
80 points the certificate is granted. Giddy-up also gained his
certificate.
Below: Jopie and Giddy-up are badly in love!
Above: Some of the ‘For Sale’ group Sigrid especially bred for the
club members; they could choose their pairs in the order of
applying for membership.
A cockerel and a pullet from Klaas ‘Sweetlake
Serama’.
In the picture left below is a cockerel of 'Hillridge
Serama', doing his utmost in performing!
Right: The last two pictures are of
‘Deukie’, owner Klaas 'Sweetlake Serama'.
Deukie (meaning ‘little dent’) owes her
name to the egg she hatched from, which
actually had a little dent.
Right: ‘Eye catcher’ was Drakie, the Serama
cockerel of Sigrid van Dort.
Below: All day long interested visitors were asking
questions, even from abroad. Late in the afternoon
the national and local press arrived. Pity that at
that time both 'boys' were a bit tired and timid by
all that attention.
BRAHMA
CLUB DAY
Text and photos: Monique de Vrijer
Here follows some general impressions of the
Brahma Club Day. This year a lot more birds
were entered; actually 130 large fowl and 110
bantams,
actually
the
largest
number that has ever been entered
at a Club Day!
Left: Judging and discussing a
cuckoo pullet from Martijn van
Rongen (in the red sweater) by
Judge Van Beek.
Left: We could not organise a Club Day like this without
help of all the volunteers. Here is one of them, Peter van
den Top (whose large Buff Columbia cockerel gained
‘Outstanding’ with 96 points), concentrated on writing
the judge’s report.
Below: These 3 young men are not ‘qualified’ judges but
being members of the Brahma Club they were invited by
the Board to judge a number of birds today. Who else
could be a better ‘judge’ than those who actually breed
the Brahma and study and compare their birds every
day?
This way, breeders are also stimulated
to become a qualified Judge.
The young man in the blue shirt is
Sander Visser; the one in the white polo
shirt is Gunther van Weyenberg (from
Belgium) and the ‘writer’ is Martin
Lageweg.
Fortunately, after a minute analysis of
each bird, the decisions of all three
‘judges’ were well-matched. Then, the
Brahmas nominated "Best" were also
evaluated by other judges.
Right below: ‘Delightful task to rear
the tender thought’ … Stijn Mijnen 14 years old- is very keen in learning
how to judge and asked nineteen to
the dozen. In the mean time ‘writer’
Sanna Kwakkel learned a lot!
Below: Judge Martin Scheuter points
out to the interested breeders and
visitors how a proper pea comb
should be.
Next you can admire the pictures of several Large
Brahma top birds (on the next page):
White-black columbia pullet of T.Dokkuma.
Buff-black columbia pullet of P. Stokkermans.
Partridge pullet of Ludwig van Roy.
Cuckoo pullet of B. Beekhuis.
Blue cockerel of G. Hendriks.
In the last picture (below right) you
partridge bantam cockerel of Kris de Vos.
see
a
In the before page some of the better bantams are pictured. Maybe they are not always
‘Best’ in their colour variety, but at the moment of photographing ‘the Best’ had not been
selected yet.
The colour varieties with the corresponding name of the breeders:
White-black columbia bantam pullet of Herman Baltus
Buff-black columbia bantam cockerel of Herman Clevers
Partridge bantam pullet of Kris de Vos
Silver pencilled bantam pullet of Marc van Paemel
Silver pencilled bantam cockerel of J. Beukers
Blue partridge bantam pullet of Kris de Vos
Left: This cockerel wasn’t selected
winner, still its owner Sander Visser
was so very proud of it that I could not
resist picturing him together with his
very rare colour variety buff blue
columbia. ( Good, 92 points. )
I would like to say thanks to the
people of the Serama Club, the
Brahma Club and the Silkie Club
(that report will be in our next
issue) who were so helpful to me
today.
My special thanks go to Sigrid and
Klaas of the Serama Club and
Berend Beekhuis and Theo Visser of
the Brahma Club. They pointed out
many interesting details and told
me a lot, making this a very fine
day to experience.
Left: Monique de Vrijer with her
Brahma cock Sebastiaan.
Photo: Courtesy Martin Marcel.
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