KAROO BUDGERIGAR CLUB

presents the

UNIONDALE EASTERN CAPE
ADDITIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW

on behalf of the

BUDGERIGAR SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA (founded 1936)

PRESIDENT : ARTHUR WINDELL

on 1 October 2011

at the Uniondale Show Grounds

Colour of the Year : GREY

JUDGE

Tony Slight
All colours, Section Awards and Major Awards
The Show Rules & Show Schedule of the BSSA shall apply.

General Information

Show Manager Mias Hattingh 0722424337
     
Show Secretary: Pierre Swart 49 Neasted Street, Cradock, 5880
    Mobile : 0827797129
    Work: 048-8018419
    Fax: 0866749484
    E-mail: ec.cradock.man@saps.org.za
     

Entry Form Download:

Click here to download entry form
     
BSSA Representative: Johan van der Merwe  
     
Chief Steward: Paul Visser  
     
Bird Welfare Officer: Selwyn van Greunen  
     
Security Officer: Heinrich Gross  
     
Staging Manager: Jeanette Fouche  
     
Transport Manager: Piet van den Berg 083 3564565
     
Designated Area Steward: Jannie Isreal  
     

Competion Information

     
Fees Payable: R5-00 per exhibit
  R15-00 Marked Catalogue
  R30-00 Lunch
     
Fee Payments: Members are urged to pay cash at the venue to cut back on bank charges.
  If you pay by cheque or make cash deposits at the bank an additional R18-00 must be added to cover bank charges.
  Electronic payments First National Bank
Cradock
Branch number 210218
Account number 6200 4606 391
 
 
 
   
Entries: Entries must be sent to the Show Secretary at the above address and must be accompanied by the appropriate fees or Proof of Payment (deposit slip, etc)
  Please phone the Show Secretary to confirm your faxed entry.
   
Young Birds: Only birds with 2011 rings are allowed to enter as Young Birds.
  All other to be entered into Any Age class.
     
Closing Dates for Entries: 19 September 2011 For exhibitors wanting cage labels mailed to them.
  29 September 2011 at 16:00 Cage labels will have to be collected at the show venue.
     
Benching of Birds: All exhibits MUST be benched with unmarked fingerdraw drinkers fitted to the show cages between the 1st and 2nd vertical wires, on the left hand side when facing the cage and resting on the 2nd horizontal bar from the bottom of the wire front.
     
Benchingtimes: Friday 30th September 2011 from 14:30 - 18:00.
  Birds will also be accepted on Saturday morning 1th October 2011 from 07:00 - 08:00.
     
Briefing of stewards: All members wishing to steward to be at the hall for briefing at 08:00 on Saturday 1 October 2011.
     
Judging: Will commence at 08:30 on 1 th October 11
     
Prize Giving: After judging on Saturday 1 October 2011.
     
De-benching of Birds: Saturday afternoon after prize giving. When it is announced that de-benching can commence, collect your birds and make your way to any exit point in an orderly queue with your birds for booking out. Please do not remove any exhibit from the staging before de-benching time.
     

Major Awards

     
BEST BIRD ON SHOW   BSSA Diploma
    Uniondals Show Rossette
    R50-00
     
BEST OPPOSITE SEX ON SHOW   BSSA Diploma
    Uniondals Show Rossette
    R50-00
     
BEST YOUNG BIRD ON SHOW   BSSA Diploma
    Uniondals Show Rossette
     
BEST ANY AGE ON SHOW   BSSA Diploma
    Uniondals Show Rossette
     
BEST CHAMPION, INTERMEDIATE & NOVICE ON SHOW BSSA Diploma
    Uniondals Show Rossette
    R50-00
     
BEST CHAMPION, INTERMEDIATE & NOVICE YOUNG BIRD & ANY AGE ON SHOW BSSA Diploma
Uniondals Show Rossette
     
26 CC WINNERS   BSSA Challenge Certificates
    Uniondals Show Rossette
    R20-00
     

Regulations

1. The Show Rules and Show Schedule of the Budgerigar Society of South Africa  shall apply.
   
2. Birds entered in wrong classes are entirely the responsibility of the exhibitor. Entries unaccompanied by the correct entry fee will not be accepted.
Entry fees will be forfeited in respect of birds not benched. NO ALTERATIONS WILL BE ALLOWED ON ENTRY FORMS AFTER RECEIPT BY THE SHOW SECRETARY BUT ADDITIONAL ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE IF ACCOMPANIED BY THE RELEVANT FEES.

   
3. The officials will ensure that all exhibits are properly cared for but will not, however, be responsible for any loss of, or damage to the birds or cages that may occur for any reason whatsoever either during the show or in transit to and from the show. Whilst extreme care and attention will be paid to the exhibits whilst at the show, exhibits are entered at owner’s risk.
       
4. No person shall be allowed to remove from the staging any exhibit except with the permission and in the presence of the Show Manager. This rule will apply throughout the duration of the show.
       
5. Photographing of exhibits by spectators is permissible but under no circumstances may the exhibit or the show cage be touched or removed from the staging. If an official photographer is appointed for the purpose of taking photographs for publication, he/she may move the exhibit to a safe room and transfer it into a photographic cage but only in consultation with the Show Manager who will delegate a steward to assist.
   
6. Only show officials and members of the BSSA Management Committee will be allowed to move freely in the hall whilst judging is in progress. However, space allowing, spectators will be allowed to move around in the hall to view the birds on the staging but the judging area, in which only show officials and members of the Management Committee will be  allowed, will be cordoned off.
   
DE-BENCHING
7. Exhibitors are to collect their de-benching sheets from the Show Secretary on (state day and time).
   
8. At the announcement that de-benching may commence, birds are to be collected and an orderly queue formed by exhibitors with their birds and de-benching sheets at any exit point for booking out.
   
9. Exhibitors are requested NOT to remove any exhibit from the staging prior to the official announcement that de-benching may commence.
   
STANDARD FOR SHOW CAGES
10. Show cages that do not comply with the standard as detailed in Appendix F of the Rules framed in terms of the Constitution of the BSSA (Volume 2 of 3) will not be accepted.  This ruling came into effect on 1 October 2004 and birds benched in show cages that do not comply with this standard, will be disqualified.