Another little piece of history downloaded from the original html library, but missing some pictures. 

I will add them when I find them. Jim Finger 2021

 

 

BELLSOUTH CHRISTMAS NEWSLETTER 2010 CELEBRATING 30 YEARS.

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In the Summer of 20010/2011

we will be closed for counter and telephone sales

from Thursday 23 December and reopening Monday 31th January 2011.

We will attend the emails, faxes, and answer phone messages regularly during that time, and dispatch goods as required. I will be attending the Poultry Expo in Atlanta during the last week of January, so service will be slower that week. If the long term forecast is right and it's a wet summer, we might just be in the office more often than not, but then, if the sun is shining and the surf's up, then we probably wont be.
If you require goods in January for specific time please place your orders by Monday 20th to ensure timely arrival during the holiday period.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your business during the year, your patience with us in the difficulties of access with telephones, and your support through some trying times this year, our 30 year.

If you have received one of our Collectors Card, then read on!! You may be one of the lucky winners of our 30th Year special gifts.
A Christmas Reflection.
A letter that encouraged me in a time of great stress 

Do you have one of the Prize Winning Collectors Cards? Read on.
This years Collectable cards are from an Italian booklet on the breed named after a town in northern Italy, Livorno. We translate this name as Leghorn, so this series of cards, obviously, is of the Leghorn breed.
I am a little unsure of the origin of the book or its exact date of publication, but Italy sometime about 1950 is my guess.
I am sure the "Italian type" of the birds will raise the "hackles" of some breeders (pun intended), but they caught my eye as grand specimens of this breed.
Leghorn bloodlines were central to the development of the first commercial crossbreds, and in Australia for the famous Australorp/Leghorn cross which was a superb layer, though perhaps lacking in some things if judged by today's commercial standards.
The remnants of the white leghorn blood still are strong in today's commercial breeds,
in the various "browns" which dominate the commercial hybrids of today, showing as white in the under colour, primary wing feathers and tail feathers.
In order to celebrate the 30th year of Bellsouth, I have added a special mark to 6 cards which have been randomly mixed into the card piles. We have printed 10,000 cards, and I do not know where or to whom the marked cards have been sent.
The printer produced the cards, Jenny and I marked 6 cards with the special mark, and these 6 cards were placed as equally as we could into the boxes of cards, which were then taken to AusPost for printing with the details of the names and addresses of everyone who had bought from us in the last 3 years.
So what is the special mark?
Its hidden in the newsletter!!

So what is a suitable gift to the lucky card recipients?
I have 6 copies of A Beginners guide to Incubation and Chick rearing all bound in my own design conservation binding. Yes I know its egotistical to give away signed copies of your own book, but in this case it's the binding that makes the work special not the author.
To the lucky cardholders, I hope you enjoy the books as much as I enjoyed making them.
To find out more about the why the binding is different, follow this link.
New Products  

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NEW INCUBATORS



The Rcom range has grown, The Suro 20 and Rcom 20 Series has been extended with the Rcom 50 Series. Now the large capacity Maru is added for the dedicated breeder who want large capacity. Click the picture to see more.

NEW NEST

Single Nest for 4 layers or for bantams.Click the picture to see more.

RANGE FEEDERS


An English range feeder used for feeding out to range pheasant and partridge, but suited also to poultry. Adds onto a variety of drums so it can be suited to large capacity.Click the picture to see more.

MORE OPTIONS FOR LUBING


It has been gratifyinG to see the Lubing cups take off with a little help from Dr Harry on Better Homes and Gardens. It is 28 years since we first fitted the Lubing cups to PVC pipes in our range of backyard poultry houses.
However, it seems that we were just a bit ahead of our time with thepoultry houses back then so the business diversified to other poultry equipment.
It seemed very hard to convince people what the commercial farmers of the early eighties had found out, that in fact its not cm of trough space per pird that matters but number of drinking points in the poultry house.
As the requests have come in a few newer poly fittings have come available and cheap enough to make up a stack of different installation ideas. We have added to them regularly. Follow the link to a few new "Make your own drinker"ideas.
DID YOU FIND IT YET? KEEP LOOKING

The World's Poultry Congress 2008 Australia.

2008 was a great year. The World Poultry Congress again visited our shores, first time since 1962.  That was the last time Pure Breed Chickens were exhibited as part of the Congress and the last time  pure breeds had a part in the proceedings. in 2008,  I was pleased to represent pure breeds and their breeders on the Committee. My tasks were to arrange speakers for a week of programs specifically oriented to the pure breeders, arrange sponsorship from the industry to assist  a wide spread of suitable candidates to attend, and to prepare a commemorative medallion for the pure breeders, commercial sponsors, delegates, and trade exhibitors.

Around the country, poultry clubs received medallions as trophies for their local shows, and several shows became "WPC shows" with medallions as trophies.

  1. Ostrich Incubation a ground breaking first in OZ 1988