Show Poultry Exhibits

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 275, 3 November 1933, Page 6

Show Poultry Exhibits

(To the Editor). Sir,—Your correspondent Mr Moody is perfectly right when he says one of the chief reasons why the Hawke’s Bay Spring Show poultry exhibits are rather weak in some classes is due to the fact that our best birds have been in the breeding pens and in consequence are not dressed in their best. 1 cannot agree with your correspondent when he accuses poultry clubs of appointing judges who are not competent for the position. My opinion ia that the poultry judges of to-day are a big improvement on what they used to be when Mr Moody was a competitor at our local shows. My reason for saying so is because there are not so many novice exhibitors at shows to-day and the majority of fanciers who do show birds know what is wanted and in consequences tjie judges have to be very careful, because they know what to expect from some exhibitors if they get careless. Show pen results to-day are very important, because the majority of breeders of poultry aim to produce a bird true to type and something worth looking at, and I would also remind Mr Moody that there are several exhibitors in the district who do seriously say they have both utility and fancy birds in their yards of the same breed and strain and ho knows perfectly well, unless birds are line brsd, one will always get a variety of type in the progeny of an ordinary mating. I always show in the utility section, but at the same time I do like to see type and colour in any breed of poultry, and 1 say with all confidence that the majority of poultry keepers in this district to-day have better specimen* of tho different breeds than was the case a few years ago. I maintain that the show pen and the the good work of the Hasting* Poultry Society have been a big factor it bringing about this improvement.— Yours etc., ORPINGTON. Hastings, 2/11/33.