Judges Comments:
Judged by: Alistair Home & Scott Eriksen
A strong class of birds with strong feather in the top group. Although the winner
(T & S Appleton Victoria) has only one tail, it is still the strongest bird over all.
Second (A & C Druery, NSW), again a very strong bird with good feather.
Third (Henry George, Sth. Qld), another good bird with good feather but just a little less in quality than the two placed above it.
Jim Fletcher & Errol Miller
Summation by Jim Fletcher
Our first impression was that this is a super class of birds. We liked the birds in cages A (Jeff Leong, Victoria) and D (K Kerney, New South Wales) but they fell to pieces during judging. It took quite a while for the birds to finally show themselves and quite a few were slightly out of condition.
First bird owned by John Boss (New South Wales) is an outstanding clean hen and strong in all areas. She is a super solid Dark Green hen who showed well.
Second owned by R & C Ogden (Q’land North & Central Zone) is another clean Dark Green Hen, very strong who was just shaded by the winner.
Third owned by Henry George (South Queensland) is a very nice clean Light Green cock but just couldn’t match the first two strong hens.
Fourth owned by Jeff Leong (Victoria) is a big solid clean cock