Rare finch species breeder register
Posted: 14 Dec 2015, 20:40
Sam and colleagues, I'm wondering whether there is any kind of organisation system in place in NSW or Australia for helping breeders of rare species to know about and communicate with each other? A few lovely species have gone the way of the Dodo that perhaps did not need to, had we had a system for connecting breeders. They could have exchanged stock to keep gene pools healthy and increase numbers.
If there is such a system, please tell me about it. If there isn't, I wonder if AFF and/or FSA could set something up? Some kind of published opt-in list of breeders with rare species in their aviaries, looking to exchange stock. Kind of a match-making system!
What's triggered this for me is the weird market absence of female BCCBs - even though someone, somewhere, is clearly breeding BCCBs and occasionally supplying male birds to retail stores. I've asked everyone I can think of - many old birdos. No-one seems to know who breeds them, and many have never even seen a hen. So where are the boys coming from? How can I find out who to join forces with to breed these birds?
Special interest groups - something online that's very simple - might help to keep breeders networked and informed.
If there is such a system, please tell me about it. If there isn't, I wonder if AFF and/or FSA could set something up? Some kind of published opt-in list of breeders with rare species in their aviaries, looking to exchange stock. Kind of a match-making system!
What's triggered this for me is the weird market absence of female BCCBs - even though someone, somewhere, is clearly breeding BCCBs and occasionally supplying male birds to retail stores. I've asked everyone I can think of - many old birdos. No-one seems to know who breeds them, and many have never even seen a hen. So where are the boys coming from? How can I find out who to join forces with to breed these birds?
Special interest groups - something online that's very simple - might help to keep breeders networked and informed.