Live Results

Judges comments on class:

1. Super Grey cock – big beautiful bird. Lovely face / mask. Even spots. Picked himself on the day. Credit to the breeder.
2. Another powerful cock with enormous blow of cap and face feather. Has a tendency to carry flights when not settled.
3. A lovely Grey cock with beautiful top end. Slightly spoiled by the trimming of mask and spots.

Judges comments (recorded by Carol Gough):

Another great class to judge right down to 11th or 12th placings.
The bird in first place picked himself from the word go. He is very strong, an outstanding Grey cock on a similar level to the big Light Green and Yellow Face we saw yesterday. He is an absolute super bird. Lovely width of face and mask, wonderful even big spots, a real showman.
The second bird we originally had him in 4th or 5th place and the reason for that was he has a tendency to have his flights all over the place so it could be just a conditioning thing but when we eventually got him up on the perch another big strong budgie and anyone would be pleased to have him in their aviary. The only thing that makes him different from the first bird is that he doesn’t have the directional feather coming out from the cere as it has a tendency to go backwards and then up.
Third place is another really solid type of budgie. He probably has the thickest and widest top end of all of them here but we had particular problem of getting him to get him on the perch for any length of time. The mask and spots also require trimming.
Fourth place another really strong budgie , very strong in shoulders so much so that it makes it look as if his top end comes in, beautiful long cap feather and once again a very nice bird. A credit to the breeder.
The bird in 7th place a Grey hen, looked liked she was going to feature in the top placings but had an outline problem where she displayed a lump on her back but a great class to judge. The bird in Cage C was placed 14th due to a hip problem.