Entrants share their expertise on what makes a winning bird stand out from the flock at the Royal Canberra Poultry Show.
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00:00Well, people say, you're breeding ducks.
00:03Even my own children said, I can't believe
00:06our mother's breeding ducks.
00:12Show is going to be quite big this year.
00:14It's going to have just less than 4,000 birds.
00:18The good thing about this show, there's some very rare birds.
00:21And so people will be able to see birds that you
00:24won't see at many other shows.
00:26And the first show I went in, I did really well.
00:30I got some prize cards.
00:32And that's success, sort of bred success.
00:40And from there, I've gone on and bred each year
00:46and bred some champions.
00:47There is a lot of competition between the breeders,
00:58mostly friendly.
01:00My carefully guarded seahorses will stay in my shed,
01:04and they will not go out of my shed.
01:06Thank you.
01:07We've got to wash the ducks tomorrow.
01:09We use a pre-wash spray on their feathers
01:13on the end of their tips of their tail.
01:17I use a wool wash to wash the feathers.
01:22And then we rinse them.
01:24In the show pen, when we get to the show,
01:26I just put some moisturizing cream on their beak
01:30and on their feet and their legs.
01:33And that makes them nice and shiny.
01:35For a champion, they've got to have that X factor, I suppose.
01:40The drake that won at Bega last year
01:43was a perfect example of that.
01:45And the judge said, put the runner down on the ground
01:48and see how he stands.
01:51And he just stood there as if to say, I am the best.
01:54And the judges said, yeah, that's the winner.
01:58And that was very exciting, to win in Bega.
02:04So it's the top bird of the show.
02:09And that was what I won over.
02:12Was it 900 birds?
02:15And it was the first time a duck had ever won in 98 years.
02:21So that was extra exciting.