Reading Bantam Show 2015

The Reading and District Bantam Society Championship show was held last weekend (21st-22nd February) and I was thrilled to have been there for the first time to take some photos.

It was a really enjoyable weekend, and certainly one of the best shows I’ve been to. Thank you to everyone who brought their birds up to be photographed and to the many club organisers who clearly had a very busy weekend.

If you had a bird photographed and would like a copy of the high-resolution images, then please email me ([email protected]) if you haven’t already and I will send them out to you over the next few days.

The Show Champion was a Black Rosecomb owned by Adrian Knaggs and Reserve was Philip Smedley’s Ancona.

Here’s a selection of photos, more will appear in Fancy Fowl Magazine soon.

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Reserve Show Champion Reading Bantam Show 2015 – Ancona Bantam male owned by Philip Smedley

1st White Wyandotte Reading Bantam Show 2015 – Owned by Lyn Parker.

2nd White Wyandotte Reading Bantam Show 2015 – Owned by Claire Renwick.

1st Silver Laced Wyandotte Reading Bantam Show 2015 – Owned by Lynne Larkman.

Best of Breed Barred Wyandotte Reading Bantam Show 2015 – owned by Jordan Day.

Best Rare Trio Reading Bantam Show 2015 – Trio of Burmese owned by Sheppy and Wilson. The first time a trio of Burmese have been shown?

1st Transylvanian Naked Neck Reading Bantam Show 2015 – owned by Chalotte.

Light Sussex female owned by Ray Parsons

Best Brown Sussex at Reading Bantam show 2015. Owned by Ben Allen.

White Silkie Bantam Male at Reading Bantam Show 2015 owned by Kirsten Mitchell.

White Silkie Male at Reading Bantam Show 2015 owned by Kirsten Mitchell.

3rd at Reading Bantam show 2015 – Silkie Feathered Serama Bantam owned by Kirsten Mitchell.

Best of Breed Reading Bantam Show 2015 – Serama cock owned by Maddy Chenery

Serama cock owned by Richard Bowden

Silver Sebright bantam male owned by Becky Smith.

Best Gold Sebright Pullet at Reading Bantam Show 2015. Owned by Jamie Robinson.

Best in Show at Reading Bantam Show 2015. Black Rosecomb Bantam male owned by Adrian Knaggs.

Best of Breed Rhode Island Red bantam male at the Reading Bantam Show 2015 owned by Alwyn Price.

1st Laced Poland at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Chamois Poland Bantam owned by Kirsten Mitchell.

Best Heavy Breed at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Buff Plymouth Rock bantam owned by Robin Ramus.

White Pekin Bantam male owned by Kate Simms.

Best Junior Handler at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. White Pekin Bantam female owned by Verity Simms.

Porcelaine Pekin Bantam owned by Claire Renwick.

Best of Colour Pekin Bantam at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Columbian Pekin Bantam owned by Amelia Kent.

1st Black Pekin Bantam at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Black Pekin Bantam Female owned by Jackie Shrewsberry.

Best Barred Pekin Bantam Female at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Owned by Louise Soper.

Best White Pekin Bantam at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

Bantam Buff Orpington Male owned by P&T Jones

Best Buff Orpington female at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Owned by P&T Jones

1st Buff Orpington Bantam male at the Reading Bantam Show 2015, owned by Teresa Habberfield.

1st Black Orpington bantam male owned by Teressa Havverfield.

Best of Breed Orpington at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Black bantam Orpington female owned by Teressa Habberfield.

Best of Breed Orloff at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Bantam Russian Orloff male owned by Helen Cooper.

Furness Old English Game owned by Evans Bros.

1st Ohiki Bantam Female at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

Best Rare Breed at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Ohiki bantam male.

Best Black-Red and Wheaten Old English Game at the Reading Bantam Show 2015 owned by Huw Edwards.

Best of Breed New Hampshire Red Bantam at the Reading Bantam Show 2015, owned by P&T Jones.

1st AOC Modern Game at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Lemon Blue Modern Game bantam owned by Emily De Gray.

Best of Breed Black Red Modern Game at the Reading Bantam Show 2015, owned by A&F James.

1st Birchen Modern Game Bantam Female at the Reading Bantam Show 2015, owned by Emily De Gray.

Best Opposite Sex at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Modern Game female owned by Hugh Price.

1st Malay Bantam at the Reading Bantam Show 2015, owned by Hugh Price.

Judges at Work!

Judge Stephen Elliot from Aberdeen judging Japanese Bantams at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

Judge Robert Rees and son Kian Rees at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

Judge Louise Carpenter judging Silkies at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

Judge Lesley Webdale judging eggs at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

Judge Keith Barnes and Steward Pat Barnes at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

Judge Joe Harrison and Steward Kirsty Harrison judging Soft Feather Heavy at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

Judge Ian Sissons judging White Pekins at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

Judge Ian Simpson judging Wyandottes at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

Judge Chris Parker at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

Judge Louise Carpenter judging Silkies at the Reading Bantam Show 2015.

1st Pencilled Male Hamburgh at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. A Silver Pencilled Hamburgh owned by Simon Patel.

Best Soft Feather Light at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Hamburgh female owned by Wincott and Newcombe.

Best Trio at Reading Bantam Show 2015. White German Langshan Bantams owned by Nobby Ward.

Best of Breed Frizzle at the Reading Bantam Show 2015 owned by Tanita Retler.

1st Salmon Faverolles Male at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Owned by Christine Norman.

Best of Breed Faverolles at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Salmon Faverolles Bantam owned by Marcia Gilbert.

est of Breed Faverolles at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Salmon Faverolles Bantam owned by Marcia Gilbert.

Best of Breed Dutch Bantam at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Gold Dutch Bantam female owned by Jenny Howl.

Best of Breed Belgium Bantam at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Cuckoo D’Anvers female owned by Peter Slee.

Reading Bantam show 2015 – Championship Row

Best Waterfowl at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Mallard Call Duck female owned by T. Buck.

1st Burmese Bantam Male at the Reading Bantam Show 2015 owned by Harriett Caudney.

Best of Breed Booted Bantam at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. White Booted Bantam Male owned by Alison Yates.

1st Booted Bantam Female at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Black Booted Bantam female owned by Richard Bowden.

Best Eggs owned by Peter Hayford.

Best Belgian Bantam at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Black D’Anvers female owned by Hugh Wallace.

Best AOC at the Reading Bantam Show 2015. Black Red Araucana Male owned by Ann Watkins.

Best of Breed Reading Bantam Show 2015 – Appenzeler Spitzhauben bantam. Silver Pullet owned by Celia Edwards.

Best of Breed Reading Bantam Show 2015 – Appenzeler Spitzhauben bantam. Silver Pullet owned by Celia Edwards.

Adrian Knaggs with Best in Show

Best in Show winner Adrian Knaggs and Reserve Philip Smedley

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Tim Daniels

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Tim is the founder of the poultrykeeper website and lives in Bedfordshire, UK. He keeps Light Sussex large fowl, Silkie bantams and hybrid layers for eggs, Abacot Ranger ducks, Brecon Buff geese and some quail.