Most beautiful female Shama i have seen so far!

Was at DDS house this morning when he bring out one of his female taimong for critic session : )
Yes, that is what he normally do with friends when we are there. He always welcome us to give him genuine comment on his Shamas.

For this 4.5 months female taimong, personally i got nothing to pick on at all! I can only wish i could slowly through years of efforts, i hope eventually i will be able to produce something like her or close to her. Enjoy! My Friends....

Breeding season for Shama

Most Shama hobbist Breeders has ended their breeding season, i hope all of them has a successful season and got the ideal Shama taimong from their best pairs.. !

As for me, i have just ended the season too.. got many chicks but still a long way to catch up to the standard i have been shown. but for now i am consider lucky and happy with the result for now : )

Seriously, i now realise how difficult it is to breed long tailed Shama. Especially those you really look forward to breed from! i am saying just to breed them, haven't even think about going around to choose who to breed that is potential in producing , strong charactor, structure, soft tail and so on... : (  just breeding a long genes pair itself without expectation is already an up hill task! I wouldn't even say i am half way there, i wish i could do better. Well, it is a good learning period and a lots of mistake learn from this year.

Now i can really sit back during my free time and enjoy the progress of all the chicks. And to pay more attentions to all those breeding birds as they had drain themself out for this breeding season. So i must take note of the nutritious supplement that could to aid them in their recuperation. And a good molt with free flow buffet for their hard work ! :p

Well, it is a good learning period and a lots of mistake learn from this year. Hope next year i can achieve more, not in quantity but quality ! hee hee..!

Shama competitions held in November

Lately i notice there might be 2-3 Shama Competitions coming up in November.

From my experience, or i should say my Shama. They tend to drop form near November as they prepare to molt around December or so... I am not sure if others is the same.

I recalled somewhere April there is a Competition helded but most of the birds has just finish molt and did not show their full potential. Just find it a waste as we could not see how the birds really can do if they are in top form. Most importantly, it shows that most of the local Shama started molting around November or December and complete around Febuary or march or so..

So, the point is... Competition in November is a good timing? Am i right about the molting season? Well, i hope friends who visits my blogs please share your views and hopefully at least we are able to get some local shama molting stats to share among kakis..

Thanks for reading Brossss!

"potato" flying to Indonesia soon on coming monday

The next few days i will spend more time with him before he move on for better life..

Although i know he is going to a much better home, still i felt a bit sad. He is one fellow that is very attach to me, but for today he is afriad of me cos i have to grab him a few times for the Vet to do a health check on him. Poor fellow, he got no idea whats going on..

Normally, most birds kept birds are very "detach" with their owner. For him, he is very difference. Not that close to me but he is always looking at me in a very difference manner no matter which corner of the house i go to and he will also pose when ever i go near to him, as if he is showing off or feel proud whenever i am near him. which i can't really describe that kind of body language... I would say he is a little afraid but at the same time he look forward to me. (Not due to food as he is one bird that is not greedy for live foods).

I hope he has a very short memory, so that he won't be depress : (

Gutsy Boy going into his second molt...

I hope it is second Molt in progress.
Kinda bad timing as my best molting "suite" AKA "toilet" in in use. Wahahaha...!
To me toilet is the best place in my house to molt birds as in there i can achieve max moisture.
Sigh... Lets see if other method works this time round : (

"slender" pic

He is Darfie's first clutch chick, Half way through his molt now.
Almost sold but decided to keep him instead. So far he is looking good, a lot more effort to put in for a perfect tail at the end of two months. Hope the weather stays cooling for as long as possible : )

Slender's progress 20-oct-2011

24-10-2011 pose

 

Zeppy and his younger brother from second clutch

Zeppy younger brother before molt.

Brother after molt.

Zeppy before molt.

Zeppy after molt.