Video 500: RPRA Southern Region Show: November 2021

RPRA Southern Region Show 2021: The month of November saw fanciers make their annual drive up the M40 to High Wycombe for the RPRA Southern Region Show, which is one of the high lights of the show calendar in the South of England every winter. It was great to see this great event back on this season after being cancelled for two years because Covid, Bird Flu and who knows what! Once again this year’s event didn’t fail to please the many fanciers who attended, being held at the Hazelmere Community Centre again, it turned out to be a good one, with over 370 birds entered. The entry for this wonderful event was from all over the UK, including Scotland and Wales, and several of the judges commented on how high the standard of the birds entered was. The funds raised by the show were donated to the Raystead AS and Gurkha Welfare charities. John & Alice travelled the 400 miles from Catrine in Ayrshire, Scotland for the High Wycombe Show and won six classes, ‘Best in Show’, ‘Best Opposite Sex’, ‘Best Show Racer’ and ‘Best Points’. A wonderful performance by the partners and this year’s Southern Region ‘Best in Show’ is their fourth in recent years. The ‘Best in Show’ winner, now named ‘Gracie’, was a yearling Mosaic hen competing in her first show ever and she is a daughter of ‘Mervanic’, the winner of ‘Best in Show’ RPRA Southern Region Show for Nicole Bell in 2016. (December 2021)