Did you enjoy our online show? Here’s another one!
Virtual showing has caught on with many clubs and societies, the Virtual Poultry Shows being one of the largest in the bird world. As a replacement for ‘The National’, VPS’s December show is a mega event and we will support them with rosettes for each waterfowl class: Best White Call Best Coloured Call Best Runner […]
Housing our birds is now mandatory
Due to the risk of avian influenza, new housing measures to protect poultry and captive birds will come into force on 14 December in England, Scotland and Wales. It will be a legal requirement for all bird keepers to keep their birds indoors and to follow strict biosecurity measures. We must house our birds in […]
Forest Ducks
The Forest Duck is one of Belgium’s most beautiful breeds. It was created in 1890 by Sir Herman Bertrand. Unfortunately, almost all the Forest Ducks were slaughtered and eaten during WWI, also so were many in England. Only in Belgium were there a few ducks who had survived that global war. In 1933 the official […]
Eyeing you up?
Very pale eyes seem to make that gaze all the more piercing! Though some species have pale eyes as an adult, they are often darker when the birds are young; Tufted Ducks and Goldeneye are good examples. This is the Raja Shelduck. There are two subspecies; most in collections are from the nominate New Guinea […]
Bird ‘flu is affecting more and more locations
An Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) has been declared across the whole of Great Britain to mitigate the risk of the disease spreading. This means it is a legal requirement for all bird keepers to follow strict biosecurity measures. Keepers with more than 500 birds will need to restrict access for non-essential people on their […]
Biosecurity review time
Two separate and unrelated cases of avian influenza have been confirmed in England, and restrictions are in place. Earlier this week low pathogenic avian influenza (H5N2) was confirmed on a small commercial poultry premises in Kent and also highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N8 in Cheshire. How is your biosecurity? We should all have a plan; […]
Entries are now closed for Champion Waterfowl 2020
Thank you to everyone who has participated! We have had some super birds entered and judging will begin very soon. Once all the entries are uploaded and labelled, we will put them up in the Events section for everyone to enjoy. That should be later this week, so do check back and we will announce […]
Handsome Heavies
You asked us if we could have some online events whilst we cannot meet in person. Tom Davis hosted our first Facebook Live event today, 16th October, from Mudchute Farm in east London. Wow, what a star! We will definitely be doing more of these. Check out our Facebook page if you missed it. As […]
Show stopper…
The BWA Champion Waterfowl Exhibition for 2020 has been cancelled. An on-line mini show will launch in September.
Like a duck to water?
People ask how soon you can let a duckling onto water? Of course — wildfowl will swim as soon as they’re fluffed-up. For the most aquatic tribes, swimming water from the start is a must. Here a Common Scoter shares with a Bufflehead; a lone Lake Duck takes readily to a roasting pan and Spotted […]
