Welcome to DTALIZARDCANARY.CO.UK  website.

This ls the personnel website of DTA LIZARD STUD owned by David Allen, Champion breeder & Exhibtor of Lizard Canaries, and  Lizard Canary Association Panel Judge

On this site it is my aim to promote the Lizard canary and explain more about them.

WHY NOT VIST MY NEW FORUM, FOR HELP AND ADVICE ON LIZARDS. OR GIVE YOUR VIEWS AND EXPERINCES.

A DREAM COME TRUE!

At the LCA Classic I achived one of my ambitions to win the LCA classic.

show report below.

LIZARD CANARY ASSOCIATION CLASSIC

SHOW REPORT 2008.

Alan Ramsden Memorial Show

{The Real Dave Allen Top’s the Tree at the LCA Classic. }

The lizard canary Association held it’s “flagship” show on the 26^th of October at the Wollaton Community Centre Nottingham and dedicated the show to the memory of the former Treasurer, Alan Ramsden, who sadly passed away earlier this year.

Judges, John Record and Jim Geeves [who stepped in at short notice] adjudicated and Alans widow, Brenda, was the Associations special guest who presented the awards.

Recently, LCA stalwart David Allen, wrote that he had two ambitions, one to win the Classic & two to someday Judge the classic.

After judging was completed, David achieved one of those ambitions because his Clear Cap Silver cock was not only Best Champion but also Best In Show, which both judges said had lovely markings and good spangles and was displaying himself well all morning.

There was 176 birds entered with second best lizard going to Stan Bolton with very nice Broken Cap Gold Hen showing good colour and very nice spangles. Stan also took 3^rd best with a Clear Cap Gold Cock he also took 5^th Best lizard with Non Cap Silver hen which also took the award for best Non Cap. 4^th best went to David Allen again splitting up the Bolton dominance with a Broken cap silver hen, this bird had been runner-up to Stan last weekend at the East Anglian All Lizard show. This silver hen displayed lovely breast work and good spangles, but the judges commented that they felt it had a few marks on it feathers which put it back slightly, but never the less a worth winning of the 4^th best spot .

The Novice section was well supported with 55 Novice exhibits and several exhibiting at the classic for the first time, welcome to you and hope you had an enjoyable day.

Best novice Lizard went to Sharon Kendall with a very nice clear cap gold hen, 2^nd Novice went to Darren Lowe with a clear cap silver hen. This is Darren first year with Lizards so well done Darren. Best Broken cap went to Chris Jordon with a broken cap silver cock. The best over year novice went to Joe Coakley with an over-year gold cock.

Judge Jim geeves said that some of the classes he judged in the champion section were very close from 1 to7 and thought the quality was good but there was a few patchy birds in colour. John Record said he felt that the classes he judged some could have done with little more show training as some were unsteady and difficult to judge. He felt the quality was not as good as in past years but he putt’s this down to the problem members had in obtain colour food for their birds. On the novice section he said their was some nice Novice birds especially the main winners. The LCA would like to thank both John and Jim for judging the birds.

The LCA would also like to thanks a few other people Huw Evan for doing the role of Show secretary., Tony Brown for the role of Show Manager. Also big thanks must go to Tracy Allen & Kayleigh Allen and Tracy’s mum Bet for the lovely lunch and refreshments they served through out the day.

One final thank to David Allen for obtain sponsorship for the show.

Hope to see you all next year for the 2009 LCA Classic.

Above is a picture of the set-up I put out to promote the Lizard canary and the Lizard Canary Association.

It contains  contacts for specialist Lizard clubs and thier show dates and venues.

Also available at the display are copies of my book "THE LIZARD CANARY" also available free are copies of the Lizard fact sheet [which was compiled by the LCA }

I also have available for sale Breeding Registers at 2.50 plus p+p

Sample of the breeding pair section found below

BREEDING PAIR

PAIR NO                          MATED                                                          

COCK                                  RING NO                                                  

HEN                                   RING NO                                                      

NOTES                                                                                                 

NEST:                                                                                                  

IST EGG                                  HATCHED                         RING NO.               

2nd EGG                                 HATCHED                         RING NO.                

3rd EGG                                 HATCHED                         RING NO.              

4TH EGG                                 HATCHED                        RING NO.              

NOTES                                                                                                  

There is space for 2 nest per page and it comes in an A5 booklet size so you have space for 2 pairs per page

The register also includes space for ring number records, show records, an other useful pages for notes on breeding season.

there is also space for you to put those important show dates down. Well thats a brief run down of the register.

I desgined it to fit the uses I required, i used to buy comersional breeding registers but found they didn't have all I wanted so I went about designing my own and this is the out come.

Below are a selection of photo's of some of my Lizards.