POTLUCK - 1:00 P.M.
MEETING - 1:45 P.M.

A - G DESSERT
H - P HOT DISH
Q - Z SALAD

Please bring your own table service

If you missed the Picnic, you missed a fun time - good food - lot of bird talk and a super raffle. We want to extend our thanks to the entire Mocko family - who really knocked themselves out! Big Jim was the chef and spent the whole time over a hot BBQ. We extend our compliments to the Chef.

On the subject of food, Many thanks to Chuck for the terrific Spaghetti feed he donated for the June meeting.

NOW is the time to start planning for the Feather Show to be held Sept 12 & 13 at the Mayfield Mall (Map in next newsletter). Pick out those birds soon (if you can find any that aren't moulting). They must be 1981 birds, except for the exotics, which can be any age.

PROGRAM: Information & discussion of the Feather Show - mainly for those new members not yet familiar with this type of show.

RAFFLE Frank Tavares will donate a bird. Only one sign-up for this meeting. If anyone wants to bring a bird - it will be appreciated. Bring other things too.

Don't forget to contact Ruth Mitchell to place an Ad in the Catalogue.

From our SHOW MANAGER:
Hey, you B.T.O's - Help us fatten the "Kitty". For a $25. contribution to the Trophy Fund, you will be listed in the catalogue as a sponsor of one of our Special Awards - or you may like to name a new category and supply your own Trophy. The bigger the prize - the more exciting the competition. Contact: Ralph Barnes.

New Members
Jan & Carol Reston - Finches
Mimi & Robby Adams - Canaries, Finches, Quail & Rosellas.

The next Executive Board Meeting will be at the home of Zoe Ann Janowsky in San Jose, August 21, 1981 7:30 P.M.

Treasurers Report

Balance 6-2-81 $1071.00
Raffle - June, July 159.00
Cages 100.00
Guest & excess food (BBQ) 47.27
sub-total $1377.00

Expenditures
AFA insurance 58.00
Newsletter & Misc postage 36.95
Bar-B-Que 225.00
Blach School (contribution) 25.00
A.C.B.M. bi-monthly listing 30.00
Print Raffle tickets - Show 90.53
Balance 7-25-81 $911.77

For Sale
Selling out - All Canaries - Red Factors, Glosters, Domestics. Also breeding cages. Bertha Andrews.

It was requested at the June Meeting that the nestling food recipes be put in the Newsletter. What is included or excluded in anyone's nestling food is based on what is available to the birds in their regular diet, so Pat McMullen has provided copies of her feeding routine, including the nestling food. Now how about the rest of you? Let's have a variety of feeding routines so can all learn. Not only canaries, hookbills, finches, etc.

Pat also distributed to the members an article she wrote about her results in treating and saving a canary that went light. It was very informative and will be a great help to people that have lost these young birds. She is to be complimented for her dedication in saving the birds and also thanked for writing, making copies and distributing them to the members.

1982 PROPOSED BUDGET SUBMITTED BY BUDGET COMMITTEE:
Pres. Hansel
V. Pres. Barnes
Tres. McMullen
Members: J. Gordon
D. Quieto
L. Quieto

INCOME
DUES 100 @ $12.00 $1200.00
RAFFLE 10 @ $40.00 400.00
INTEREST $100.00 / MO. 1200.00
Total: $2800.00

EXPENSES
FEATHER SHOW $50.00
ANNUAL SHOW (break even)
BAR B-Q 400.00
PROGRAMS 300.00
Newsletter 500.00
Misc. (Insurance, Ads, AFA, School, Memorials) 700.00
Show subsidy 500.00
Inflation & need of meeting place 350.00
Total: $2800.00

H. Hansel 7/21/81

Normal Canary Feeding Routine
by Pat McMullan

In cage at all times:

1. L&D Seed Co. Canary Mix.
2. Mineral Grit ( L&D ) with a little
3. Geisler's Bird Mineral Mix sprinkled over it. (They are attracted by the contrast in color.)
4. Treat cup of Petamine (or L&D nestling mix = same, essentially)
5. Cuttle bone (though I may stop this, they ignore it except during moult)
6. Treat cup of Min. Meal
7. Clean, fresh water, (add 8 in 1 iron & blood tonic 2 x weekly during moult.)

Serve once daily:

1. L&D Soak seed (I start with hot tap water so only soak it 24 hours, rinse & serve WITH Super Preen and Super hyglyceron mixed into it on alternate days.)
2. Greens: Spinach, broccoli, dandelion or rape sprouts. Chickweed in season (which coincides with early breeding season.)

Occasionally:

1. slice apple or very ripe orange instead of greens
2. Cucumber 2-3 x week during moult
3. Zucchini as the green food when it's cheap
4. Carrot - Dropped into boiling water and removed from heat for 5 min., then ground up and served.

For Conditioning: Start January 1 with

1. Iodine (Bird Iodine is now available) in the drinking water. Shouldn't be necessary on the California Coast but I do it anyhow.
2. Slice of Canary Corn Bread in flight 2 x week.

Canary Corn Bread:
Jiffy corn MUFFIN mix + 2 eggs + 1/3 cup milk + ¼ to ½ cup of Petamine + handful of Blue Poppy seeds + 1 envelope of unflavored gelatin. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 min.

Nestling food:
Crumbs made by putting the corn bread through a grinder + Gerber's Hi Protein baby cereal with apple & orange + a sprinkle of dry, unflavored gelatin and (this year) a sprinkle of vitamin B12 powder.

A.M. feeding = add a very small slice of hard boiled egg and grind it all up together.

P.M. feeding = leave out the hard boiled egg and ad instead a little rape sprouts to each dish in addition to the greens which are given at mid-day.

Note: When canary parents are being stubborn about feeding, they WILL feed spinach.

I put 'em up to breed on 3/15. First chick hatches on 4/8 every year. I stop the iodine after the last egg of the first clutch is laid unless a pair seems to have a fertility problem.

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