and shape of the original bird is lost. For the first scenario think any one of numerous species ranging from Splendid Parakeets to Gouldian Finches via Chinese Painted Quail. For the second think Budgerigar and Zebra Finch.


Breeding and showing domesticated birds is a perfectly valid branch of the hobby – it is just not relevant to the


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foreign bird keeper. The maintenance of a strong group of ring-fenced normal birds is, however, also an important asset for the mutation breeder – the infusion of normal blood to a stud of mutations will increase the birds’ vitality. For some time I have been trying to develop “Interest Groups” for a number of species. My aim in this is to


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