 Editors' column
I would like to thank all those that showed appreciation of my effort to establish “Boxbeak” I hope that it will bring a lot of reading pleasure to everybody.
Please send your contributions to: chris@iasafari.co.za. Photo's 200kb and smaller is also welcome.
This month I am introducing fancypigeon.co.za. I hope you all will make use of it.
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News from around the world:
At last I have a photo of the champion tumbler on the Australian nationals. She is a beauty, well done Jeff.
 South Africa has two official fancy pigeon bodies, SAFPA and the NFPA. The NFPA is new and not yet strong in tumblers, but tumblers had some representation on their nationals. We are glad to see the growing interest and wish the winners good luck.
The 2009 boxbeak challenge was held in Bloemfontein on 22 August 2009. In the end the winner was a black young cock (175-08) by Christo Britz with Bertie Wessels taking the second and third spots with two mealy cocks (#1-08 & #2-08). The third placed bird on the day (2-08) was also the National Champion for 2009 earlier in the year.
 Alister Bull (New Zealand) showing one of his better longfaces. To import birds into country New Zealand is difficult, but despite little diversity in the gene-pool, he is doing well.
 These three young hens were bred in the USA by Don Copeland. I think they might be the most powerful
cream hens I've ever seen. It would be interesting to see how they do on the shows.
 Fancypigeon.co.za
This site was created to give pigeon breeders and clubs the opportunity to have, at a minimal cost, access to a website where you can add, delete or edit as many pages as you wish. All this is available at a really minimal annual fee. This fee is used to further develop the site.
The site was created with user friendliness as a main objective. Anybody that can type a word document can put a page on the net, it IS that simple. The most important aspect of any website is that the information should be fresh. On this site you can personally update your information as many times per day as you wish.
Another feature that might prove to be useful is that show results can be available in real time, as the judging takes place results and photos of the winners will be available for the whole world to see.
If you do not wish to put up your own page, the web designer can do that for you at a minimal cost.
Those that do not want to lay out money can register as a free user and partake in the communication network that has been set up.
If you want your own page, you need to register as a breeder or a club, whatever is applicable to your situation.
To register is easy. The website guides you through the simple steps. Once you have confirmed your e-mail (to help eliminate SPAM robots) you are now part of a small but growing social network. It works on the same principle as “Facebook”, with the only difference; the users are all pigeon people.
Do not delay. Register now and join our community.
Colors and patterns
In the modern Longface tumbler we have progressed far beyond the color restrictions we have placed upon ourselves in the past. This has paved the way for many interesting.
I am not the best person to write about color genetics and therefor will appreciate any contributions from fanciers.
The white tumbler is a favorite of mine. When they were “extinct” from South Africa, it was the first color I've created by using other colors, patterns and factors to.
This experience made me think about something: We exhibit the whites in the self (Spread) classes. According to Joseph W Quinn, spread is an autosomal mutation that produces uniform distribution of pigment.
A white pigment does not exist and can therefor not be evenly distributed. The white birds are mostly homozygous ash-red grizzle, usually in the dilute form. Many still have some flecking in the neck and on the head area.
The abovementioned make it possible to view a white longface as a patterned bird. The bird is however not showing a pattern, but neither does it have spread factor.
Your opinion about this viewpoint of mine, that is not necessarily correct, is welcome.
Should white not be a self, maybe we should talk about recessive red and yellow….
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Christo Britz
 I usually have stock available in August to serious fanciers.
I have breed most self, baldhead and patterned birds in both clean leg and limited quantities of muffed.
I started with opal, andalusian, almond, milky and reduced as well.
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 The Boxbeak Challenge 2010
Date: 27 & 28 August 2010.
Venue:Bloemfontein South Africa
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