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Just don't worry about saying this or that. Go see some birds, ask your questions, and get a bird you really want to work with and have a good time.
I refer to my mature males as Roosters--my mom would faint if she heard me running around saying the other in mixed company. Some of the old-timers will use the term with wicked glee around young women--just ignore those guys and take a step back.
If you want to buy a bird, pay the breeder and kiss it's feathers off. I'd prefer someone hold a bird I sold close than let it hang--at least it shows a little respect for my work and that they're happy to have the animal. I would rather have someone use incorrect terminology with euthusiasm, than not talk to me at all about a breed they love.
You can ask me any question you like--that's how you learn.
You can call your birds whatever you like, a name or lack of one doesn't increase or decrease the birds quality when it's in the hands of a judge. If you put a quality bird in the cage, it will do all the talking for you.
If you're interested in the Fancy, you'll be back next year to show, and you will learn as you go.
The only rules are ones of common sense: Don't open the door on a cage that's not yours, don't handle or try to pose through the cage any bird that's not yours, don't feed birds that aren't yours, stay out of the aisle when they are judging. That's not hard to do.
Go, enjoy, have fun!
I refer to my mature males as Roosters--my mom would faint if she heard me running around saying the other in mixed company. Some of the old-timers will use the term with wicked glee around young women--just ignore those guys and take a step back.
If you want to buy a bird, pay the breeder and kiss it's feathers off. I'd prefer someone hold a bird I sold close than let it hang--at least it shows a little respect for my work and that they're happy to have the animal. I would rather have someone use incorrect terminology with euthusiasm, than not talk to me at all about a breed they love.
You can ask me any question you like--that's how you learn.
You can call your birds whatever you like, a name or lack of one doesn't increase or decrease the birds quality when it's in the hands of a judge. If you put a quality bird in the cage, it will do all the talking for you.
If you're interested in the Fancy, you'll be back next year to show, and you will learn as you go.
The only rules are ones of common sense: Don't open the door on a cage that's not yours, don't handle or try to pose through the cage any bird that's not yours, don't feed birds that aren't yours, stay out of the aisle when they are judging. That's not hard to do.
Go, enjoy, have fun!
