The Orange Bird Society is proud to present the 2009 Orange Bird Sale on the 7th of March 2009.
Register now if you are a seller or trader or wish to come to the official dinner.
The dinner this year is at the Orange Ex-Services club in the center of town. We have Matthew Crane doing an after dinner talk.
All information including online registrations can be found at:OrangeBirdSale

PLEASE NOTE: BOOKINGS FOR THE SATURDAY NIGHT DINNER CLOSE 1 WEEK BEFORE THE SALE. IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND THE DINNER PLEASE BOOK PRIOR TO 1ST MARCH 2009.

Home Of Alexandrine Parrot Mutations

George Van der Togt has established, through long perserverance, some outstanding colour mutations in the Alexandrine parrot here in Australia. This has been a childhood dream in which he has set himself a goal and stuck with it

Welcome , my name is Peter vd Berg and I live in Noordwijkerhout (The Netherlands)

On this site you will find information about my collection birds 

My method of producing good healthy lutino  fischer's takes a bit of time and effort but the results are fantastic in the end. I believe that extra attention should be paid to the quality of the parent birds when attempting to breed these ino birds.  I use a red eye to a pure normal (green) first up, you get your own splits (green/ino) then you put split back to green. Then you pair split to split and finally red eye to split. I run several pairs up for this to get different bloodlines and always still breed pure normals with no mutations whatsoever in them. That way we have strong bloodlines to begin with and stronger genes. You can still produce lutinos by missing a couple of these steps and going straight from 1 to 4 (lutino paired to split). Alot of people do this because in steps 2 & 3 pure normals (green) are produced and telling the difference between normal and split is impossible due to the fact both birds visually look the same "GREEN".  I never put two red eyes together for breeding, reason being Inos  have a lethal gene. It causes weak young and death in most cases and for me a lesson never to be repeated. Keep clear of pairing birds that are closely related for this is another recipe for feeble youngsters.  Remember though that in Fischer's the Ino is an Autosomal Recessive mutation which is  Non Sexed Link  (NSL). This means that it doesn't matter what sex the Ino parent is.