FEATURE NO 1 IN THE SERIES LESSER KNOWN CANARY BREEDS -
THE SCOTCH FANCY CANARY
I can remember the first time I saw this lovely little canary was back in the early 80’s at the City of Oxford Open show that was held in a school in Barton. This show hosted the Old Variety Canary Club, club show so there was a good number of old variety canaries of which the scotch fancy is one. The first thing that caught my eye of
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these little curvy birds was their show cage, it was the most beautiful of cages with a pattern of inlaid wood on the bottom of the show cage.
he Scotch Fancy Canary is a canary of position, a very small and neat bird.
In recent years, there has been an upsurge in the Scotch Fancy with the Scotch Fancy club putting out a call for all breeders of the Scotch to answer a questionnaire on how many they keep and how many the bred. Following on from that at last year’s National there was record number benched, more than any that have been seen for a long time, probably going back to the late 80’s at Oxford.
What was more pleasing for me was to see my good friend Ray Smith take best Scotch with a white Scotch Fancy. He also sent two of his Scotch to the World show in Spain earlier this year. As I said earlier the Scotch is a bird of position, when it is shown it should stand in the shape of the letter C or crescent shaped like the moon. The tail should curve under the perch and the head over the front of the perch, hence taking on the shape of the letter C. There are a number of breeders of Scotch Fancy in my area this is some part due to the OVCA chairman Mr Brian Hogg
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