VINCENT'S FANTAILS
My Central Show Team for 2005
Andalusian YH 2042
BlueYC 2157
Black Black YC 2224 ( parents sold )
Andalusian YH 2042 ( parents sold )
Powder Silver YH 2015 ( parents sold )
Silver Yearling 4529.......1st YH last year
Silver YH 2055
GRizzle Yearling
Reserve GRizzle
last year
Powder Silver Yearling hen 4565
Silver YH 2233
Check Yearling hen 4610
Cream YH 2218
Black YH 2169
Silver OH 1453 "Desert Doll"
Silver Yearling hen 4411 "Dixie Belle"
Cream YH 2156
Indigo YH 2017
White Yearling Hen 4498
White YC 2160
Red YC
Dominant Opal YC
Indigo YC 2042
Silver YC 2245
Silver YC 2107
Blue YC 2157
Silver OH 1425
Silver Yearling Hen 4487
Andalusian YH
Two years into marked birds
Powder Blue YH
Blue YC 2016
LOUISVILLE 2004
Left: Andalusian Young Hen 2041/04 Right: Cream Young hen
Best Andalusian @ National Young Bird Show Best Cream @ NYBS bred by Earl Biedermann
2 Pictures of Young red hen.........best red @ Pageant
Cream young hen still growing a tail for the Central
FUTURA , ideal as depicted by John Arena This stud of fantails are all descendants of "Alberta Clipper" CCFC Champion and Central Fantail Club Champion bred in black, white, blue, silver, powder blue, powder silver, mealy, cream, powder cream, opal, grizzle, reduced, recessive red and yellow, indigo, andalusian, checker, and dun. I am currently working her into saddles and tailmarks in limited numbers. Birds from this stud are being bred in USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Scotland and England. Birds sold from this stud have been champions in USA, Australia, Scotland and England, and their offspring have won in Europe. email me at vincentbob@aol.com
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Well it's breeding season now and these individuals will be working overtime supported by a team of rollers selected for feeding ability. Each individual is 36" X 30" x20". In the off season the partitions are removed and they become shelves nine feet long to help in classifying young birds. Floors are covered in tar paper for easy cleaning, Fronts are 2" X 4" mesh welded in place and covered.in 1/2 hardware cloth for vermin reduction. Chilean Mesquite is 2 years old and hopefully will completely cover bird area in a couple more years. |
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Black Yearling hen bred by Vincent Grand Champion Scottish Fantail Club She is Clipper's great grandaughter
Silver YH bred by Vincent Champion Young bird Scottish Fantail Club She is Clipper's great-great grandaughter twice and her great great great great grandaughter once!!!!
Powder Cream YC was shown three times and was best of colour each time under Smith, Christensen and Schabert, a great grandson of Clipper
Black YC bred by Vincent Reserve Champion Doncaster Show England Clipper shows up 4 times in the background of this Champion
Andalusian OH Best Andalusian many times and usually in the final 5 to 7 in the finals a daughter of Clipper
Andalusian OH 3495 Clipper's daughter
DIXIE BELLE Silver YH GRAND CHAMPION 2003 Dixie under Lance Christensen as judge Clipper's great granduaghter Clipper shows up 4 more times in this pedigree
BELLE VILLE Silver Young Hen 1st YH at CFC Annual in Belleville MI. Clipper's great grandaughter
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Desert Doll Silver YH 1453/02 Mid America Reserve Champion
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Desert Doll is a young silver hen. 1453/02. She is bred down from my first Central Fantail Club champion the "Alberta Clipper". She has tremendous width of body and has an exceptionally clean front for such a wide bird. This year she is mated to the brother of my third CFC champion "Desert Belle" to try and get some of that Desert Belle style top tail on Dolly's offspring. I should have pulled a couple of feathers before snapping the picture to get that perfectly clean front.
We are making progress at a more refined wing with more horizontal angle. It will be nice when we get the body feathers to cover all the way down to the bars. We are about an inch away now. Also the "up look" of the head is coming which will allow the "appearance" of a deeper head setting, without pushing the tail down. Dolly still needs a bit more vertical tail. Note that even though she has good feather length which allows coverage of the wings she does not have those troublesome "pants" that hide straight up and down legs. Her legs are visible and she shows some "toe lift" which gives the legs a nice forward angle.
The Western Fantail Club had their annual meet at my home in Tucson in November of 2002. What a thrill to have so many fanciers and friends attend. No one left hungry, and most of us had to go on diets. Gene Altpeter served as judge. We thought we were going to top 400 birds but we ended with 328. See links to get complete results on the WFC page. Champion to Dennis Soares on a silver old hen that I would later get to judge at the Central. I put her just behind Bill O'Dell's old hen that had just been Mid America champion in December under Brian Pogue. Reserve to this mealy yearling cock 1148/01, the only time ever shown. Birds like this don't generally travel too far from here! Second reserve and best young to an andalusian YC exhibited by Earl Biedermann.
"DESERT BELLE" 1199/01 silver hen that was my third CFC champion last year. She is a descendant of both prior champions, Alberta Clipper, and Maid Marion.
This is a recessive red ribbontail. This colour never seemed to catch on so the last one has gone to Germany. I used them in the making of my family of reds.
this is Jim Ervin's computer enhanced picture of one of Bill Shekelton's saddles. Jim has done an excellent job showing the nature of and position of the three bones that make up the legs. The "tarsometatarsus" (where the band goes) the tibotarsus ( drumstick) and the "femur" or thigh.. This picture shows the proper point to establish the centre of gravity to enable a fantail to perform properly. You will note that what I call the "Sweet Spot" can be produced by projecting the tail line down to the floor and it intersects the vertical through the body at the balance point. Here is FUTURA, a computer generated adaptation of Scott Berg's good yellow cock. To my thinking this is the closest we have come to my ideal. I would like 1) a smaller more refined head, 2) a more up tilted head so the beak rests on the body not digging into it 3) the uptilted head will give the illusion of a deeper head setting without moving the head down 4) a narrower more horizontal wing, 5) more toptail 6) slightly more vertical tail so it is perpendicular to wingline 7) less leg angle so leg line projection stays INSIDE body more like Ervin's picture. This leg will fail at the joint.
Gene Altpeter (l) teaching Scott Saltee how to chill out in the party tent at the Snowed in Classic held at Vincent's in November. 2002 . Its not true that Saltee can't be taught because see below.
Facing with arms crossed is Ray Dees TX, then clockwise Scott Saltee, AL in same position as above when sun was up, Gene Altpeter WI (hidden) Randy Wilson, OK, Joe Schabert MN, Earl Biedermann AZ, David Smith FL, Greg Duffy KY
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