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Club Contacts
Patron:
Posie Graeme-Evans
President
Judi Walker
Mobile: 0409 411501
Email: [email protected]
Secretary
Jill Weaver
Email: [email protected]
Publicity Officer, Exchange Steward
& Website Officer
Isaac Walker
Mobile: 0409411501
Email: [email protected]
Club Website
www.tasrarepoultry.com
Club Email:
Article Contributions
We would love for members of the club with spare time and
knowledge to impart, to write an article or articles for the Rare Breeds club newsletter and website.
So if you have some experience or knowledge that you would like to share, send an e-mail to the Publicity Officer with your
article (and any photos you wish to include) attached. The e-mail address to use is [email protected].
Additionally the newsletter is now running a new section.
Strange tales is a section in the newsletter and on the club website where people can share their strange or cute experi-ences with poultry. Please send your contribution for this sec-tion to the Publicity Officer, bring it to one of our meetings, or
mail it to Skye Farm, Lower Longley, Tas 7109.
Next Meeting
The next club meeting will be a general held on Sunday the 20th of Janaury, starting at 10:00 AM. It will be held at the
usual location, the Poultry Pavilion at the Royal Hobart Show-grounds, in Glenorchy.
All are invited; we hope you will attend.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays
The club would like to wish everybody a merry Christmas, happy holidays and safe New Year.
Happy chooking in 2013.
Sponsors The Tasmanian Rare Breeds Poultry Club would like to
thank the following sponsors for their donations to our annual show and auction weekend 2012;
Laucke Mills Stockfeeds
Animal Tuckerbox Bellsouth Poultry Supplies
Roberts Ltd. The Crested Breeds Club of Australia The Belgian Bantam Club of Australia
The Silkie Club of Australia Burnie Poultry Society
Isaac Walker of Skye Farm Poultry Trevor Hunt of TTT Farm Poultry Anthony Rowe and Abbey Bailey
We would also like to thank all the volunteers who assisted in
the running of the show.
Breeders Directory The Tasmanian Rare Breeds Poultry Club breeders directory is now available, for anyone looking for Tasmanian breeders
of poultry. Hardcopies of this comprehensive list of who breeds what can be purchased from the club secretary for $5
(contact the secretary on [email protected] or ph. 64293239).
Membership: Please note that club membership is now due for renewal. All club members who have not yet done so are asked to please renew your membership by sending in the membership form
found on the final page of this newsletter.
Thank you.
The Aims and Objectives of the Club
The aims and objectives of the Tasmanian Rare Breeds Poultry Club are:
• To promote rare breeds of poultry to the general public and to encourage those that keep poultry to consider keeping pure bred rare breeds.
• To increase the number of rare breeds exhibited at poultry shows through the sponsorship of rare breed classes and provision of trophies and awards.
• To increase the number of junior fanciers exhibiting rare breeds at poultry shows through the sponsorship of junior trophies and awards for rare breeds.
• To increase interest in rare breeds and discussion among existing poultry breeders by distributing a regular newsletter to interested poultry clubs, members and other organisations.
• To make rare breeds easier to obtain by maintaining a registry of birds wanted and for sale through a designated exchange steward.
• To assist in maintaining the genetic diversity of domestic poultry for future generations
• To provide a pathway for new and existing rare breeds to be recognised in the Australian Poultry Standards.
Committee & Patron
The Tasmanian Rare Breeds Poultry Club is happy to announce our new committee for 2013;
President: Judi Walker
Vice President: Tracey Cordwell Secretary: Jill Weaver
Assistant Secretary: Phil Gorman Treasurer: Bill Hyndes
Publicity, Website Officer & Exchange Steward: Isaac Walker Show Manager: Rob Shaw
Rare Breeds Sub-Committee: Merv Hutt, Bill Hyndes, Peter Manning
The club is also honoured to have Posie Graeme-Evans as our patron for 2013.
The Australian Rare Breeds Import Syndicate
The Australian Rare Breeds Import Syndicate is an initiative to bring previ-ously extinct, non-existent or extremely rare breeds of poultry back to Aus-
tralia, started by Meredith Parker in 2003.
It is now nearing its successful conclusion, with eggs from 45 breeds and 22 extra varieties and colours due to arrive in Australia in May of next
year. 19 of these breeds will be brand new, never before seen in Australia - including Dutch bantams, Jersey giants, Peasant Fowl, Sumatra and
many others.
According to Meredith Parker “The facility in the UK is now working, and the source flock has been hatched in quarantine. Dr. David Spackman has been running the facility for us, doing a great job dealing with all the varie-
ties and breeds. His practice manager Rob has been doing a lot of the hands on as well for us.”
This exhaustive and expensive process has taken almost ten years to set
up - the project had to wait for space in Australia’s quarantine facilities, and have their own facility constructed in the United Kingdom. The source birds had to be hatched in quarantine, and their eggs will be sent to Aus-tralia where they must then be hatched in quarantine and undergo three
months in quarantine once hatched.
However apparently it has been a rewarding project; “What a great thing it has been to be involved in this - the way people have pulled together to make it work, and there has been some people who have put in a great amount of effort. It has been just an enjoyable effort!” Meredith Parker
stated. “There have been times that it looked like it would fall into bits but it always came through. There have been people who have helped enor-mously, including people on the other side of the world who went to huge
lengths to assist for nothing in return. It has been great how people helped out.”
Around four people in Tasmania will be bringing in birds as part of the pro-ject, while other birds will be going to every state except for the Northern Territory. “About 65 people are part of the project and bringing in birds,
even a couple of poultry clubs have pitched in as a group.”
Inquiries can be made to Meredith Parker at [email protected]
SHOW RESULTS From the 2012 annual Tasmanian Rare Breeds Poultry Show.
Champion Bird In Show (& Champion Rare Variety and Rare Variety Hard Feather Large in Show)
OEG Grey Cock Bird
Peter Spotswood Champion Rare Breed in Show
(& Champion Rare Breed Waterfowl)
Black East Indian Duck Trevor Hunt
Reserve Champion Rare Breed in Show (& Reserve Champion Junior Exhibitor)
Phoenix Cockerel Sorrel School
Reserve Champion Rare Variety in Show (& Champion Rare Variety Soft Feather Large)
Coronation Sussex Pullet Mark Robertson
Champion Rare Variety Waterfowl Black and White Muscovy
Trevor Hunt
Champion Turkey or Guinea Fowl
Guinea Fowl Trevor Hunt
Champion Rare Breed Soft Feather Bantam Rosecomb Bantam cockerel
Peter Manning
Champion Rare Breed Harder Feather Large Australian Game hen
Ellis Dick
Champion Rare Breed Harder Feather Bantam Australian Game hen
Ellis Dick
Champion Rare Breed Soft Feather Large Plymouth Rock cockerel
Ellis Dick
Champion Rare Variety Soft Feather Bantam Cuckoo Pekin
E. Rayner
Champion Rare Variety Hard Feather Bantam O.E.G Blue Duckwing D/L Pullet
John Watson
Champion Junior in Show Silver Pencilled Wyandotte Pullet
L Robinson
Most Promising New Breed or Variety Rosecomb Naked Neck
Trevor Hunt
BEST OF BREED
Rare Breed: Shamo - Anthony Rowe
Thai Game - Anthony Rowe Aylsebury Duck - Trevor Hunt
Oxford Game - Jason Auld Barnevelder - Ian Grubb Phoenix - Sorrel School
Large Indian Game - Anthony Rowe Belgian d’uccle Millefleur - Hayley Badcock
Belgian d’uccle AORC - Tracey Cordwell Polish - Merv Hutt
Rosecomb Bantam - Peter Manning Gold Sebright - Eian Rayner
Silver Sebright - Sorrel School Naked Neck - Merv Hutt
Australian Game - Ellis Dick Australian Pit Game - Tony Jacobs
Malay Game - Corrina Sloane Coronation Sussex - Mark Robertson
Guinea Fowl - Trevor Hunt
Rare Variety: Indian Game - Danny Paterson
Old English Game Large - Peter Spotswood Silkie - Lily Cooper
Australian Langshan - Maurice Young Japanese Bantam Grey - Abbey Bailey
Japanese Bantam Blue - Mark Robertson Japanese Bantam Blue Grey/Best Overall - Jill Weaver
Pekin Bantam - Eian Rayner Wyandotte Bantam AORC - Luke Robinson
Wyandotte Bantam Best Overall - Peter Manning Bantam Indian Game - James Jackman
Modern Game - John Watson OEG Bantam Grey - Peter Spotswood OEG Bantam Black - Peter Manning
OEG Bantam Duckwing - John Watson Leghorn Bantam - Roly Calvert Malay Game - Corrina Sloane
Pekin Bantam AORC - Tracey Cordwell Pekin Bantam Brown Red - Tracey Cordwell
Colour In A ... Girl chasing a chicken
Fowl Humour:
Q. Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? A. If it had four, it’d be a chicken sedan.
Q. How did the chewing gum cross the road?
A. By sticking to the chicken’s foot.
TASMANIAN RARE BREEDS POULTRY CLUB INC. MEMBERSHIP FORM Thank you for applying to join the TRBPC Inc. Please complete this form and post it with your payment money order or cheque made out to Tasmanian Rare Breeds Poultry Club Inc. to 10 Ferny Bridge Road, Sprent 7315, TAS
Age (Please tick box) Adult (16 years or older)
Junior under 16 years old Junior date of birth_________________ Do you want your details registered on our TRBPC Breeders Register? Yes No (Please circle) This information can be given out to people who are looking for the particular breed you have. (Please circle what information you would like given out) Mobile Home Phone Address E-mail Address Locality Membership rates: Adult member $15 Junior member $5 Family/Non-for-profit $25 (Annual membership fees fall due on 30 June each year) Please find enclosed a cheque/money order for $______________ Donation $__________________ What breeds do you currently keep? Please indicate size, large or bantam.
All members of the TRBPC Inc. are asked to actively support the clubs activities and objectives and follow the clubs constitution. I agree to abide by the club’s constitution guidelines: Signed:_____________________ Date: ______________________
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