Greetings from Moscow

Although Mandarin did not live for very long unfortunately, he left his mark on texels in Russia. I received this photo today, showing beautiful red-white texel sows, all descendants of Mandarin Cocktail at Brentwood Hotel. And of course their breeder-owner Irina Biletskaya. :o) Thank you very much for the nice photo!

Some nice faces

The weather was nice today, so I could take a few photos. The results are here...

Guggenheim Museum at Brentwood Hotel (Austrian Peruaner Rammstein - Kismet at Brentwood Hotel):

Osbourne Sharon at Brentwood Hotel (Broken Spell at Brentwood Hotel - Unlikely Story at Brentwood Hotel):

Walking on Broken Glass at Brentwood Hotel (Iontus vom Dreiländereck - Nics Tri at Brentwood Hotel):

And the winner is...

Finally, the photos of the Best of Breed winners of our latest show. Trevi went BOB on Saturday, Armani on Sunday.

Fontana Trevi at Brentwood Hotel "Trevi" (Losing my Religion at Brentwood Hotel - Xtra Flame at Brentwood Hotel, she is 6 months old in the pictures):

Emporio Armani at Brentwood Hotel "Armani" (Raymond von Piccolinos - Balboa vonWerne, he is 7 months old in the photos):

Budgies update

You can show me fancy canaries, you can show me huge parrots and cocatoos, I always will say that budgerigars are the best birds in the whole world! :o)))
They are nice, they are small, they come in endless phantastic colours, and they are great personalities!
I have been keeping them for many years, and unfortunately the older generation is passing away these years. I still have 2 which are between 5 and 10, and I was thinking about not having any more. But, "Lelenc" showed up in a mysterious way, and he declared that he definitely wants to stay with us. He could not play too much with the oldies, so I bought him a young mate. So came "Ildike". But "she" turned out to be a boy, too... So, again, new birds came: I decided to buy two girls to give company to the boys. :o)
The new girls are yellow headed blue opalins (I think...) , look like twins at the moment. Thanks to their breeder, Balázs Fodor!

This is "New Bird Nr 1.". (Sorry, no approppriate names yet... )


She is "New Bird Nr. 2":


The girls getting sleepy in the evening:


The two new girls again, but our "old lady" showed up, too. She is on the left. At the moment, she is the only bird which was "born" here, so I know almost every minute of her life... She is near 10 years old, and always have been a bit overweighed. So, flying is not her main activity... I just love her colour, maybe that is why I chose our new "twins". :o)


This is "Lelenc". He spent some time "in the streets", but he is so tame, he wanted to join me on his own mind. I don't know exactly how old he can be, but I am sure he is still young. He is the only bird which is willing to sit on my hand, and "runs" to me every time I appear.


This is "Ildike". Everybody thought first that he was a girl (that's why the name...), but he isn't. He is the smallest (and youngest) of them all. Also the shiest but the most playful. He brings fun to the life of his company. You can find him near a toy always...


"Ildike" having some fun before going to sleep. (Does he ever sleep?!?)


This is our "old gentleman", a really huge show budgie in colour "grey":


This is how the lower part of the cage looked this evening: "Old lady" is about to leave the feeder, and "Lelenc" wants to be the next to have some snack before going to sleep:

Still at the show...

We were pleased to see that there is a show of children's drawings in the hall where our cavy show took place. Their theme was man+nature. Look at some of the wonderful artwork of the show!

Have you ever seen pink in a rainbow? :o)


Maybe the first work of a would-be impressionist:


Mum watering the garden (with quite a strong flush of water...), with a little chihuahua (?) watching:


Pet shop (with a poor kitten caged... But the fish tank looks fun):

Little fat squirrel (just like a cavy! :o) in the foreground:

Technically perfect aquarium: equipped with internal filter and digital thermometer:

Poor rabbit hurt her leg with a broken bottle:

Cool! Hammer-head shark!:

Woodpecker having lunch:

My favourites: look at the little bees (detail of the above drawing):

Very good for elementary school, isn't it?:

The wood is on fire!!!! Poor deer, too... (left front):

Our globe... complete with U.S. flag, Chinese Great Wall, etc.:

Nice picture made by a special technique:

Again, one of my favourites: budgies!!!! :o)

Maybe the best of all (by my taste at least...):

Hedgehog in Autumn:

It's Showtime!

We had a show this weekend. Again, much work, much stress - and much joy... I could show a few of the staff and meet some friends, too. Simply said: Great time!
The three which I showed:
Austrian Peruaner Rammstein (sheltie boar, tortie-white): Best of Breed (Sunday)
Emporio Armani at Brentwood Hotel (texel boar, tortie-white): Best of Breed, Best of Group (Sunday)
Fontana Trevi at Brentwood Hotel (texel sow, tortie-white): Best of Breed, Best of Group (Saturday)

But my biggest pleasure was to see the lots of Brentwood Hotel cavies shown by their owners. I would like to say thanks here to all who take loving care of their BH shelties and texels, and show them to their advantage. Here is a list of those which I was very proud of thsi weekend:

THE SHELTIES:
Dancing Domino at Brentwood Hotel (boar, black-white), owners: Eszter Antal and Csaba Horváth Junior Winner (both days!)
X-Face at Brentwood Hotel (boar, tortie-white), o: Judit Udvari
Pink Feeling at Brentwood Hotel (sow, red-white), o: Katalin Kálazi BEST OF BREED (Saturday)
Perfect Day at Brentwood Hotel (sow, tortie-white), o: Katalin Kálazi

THE TEXELS:
Debonair at Brentwood Hotel (boar, silveragouti-white), o: Gáborné Rédly
Quest at Brentwood Hotel (texel, tortie-white), o: Judit Udvari


Dancing Domino at Brentwood Hotel

Perfect Day at Brentwood Hotel "Bessy" and Pink Feeling at Brentwood Hotel "Pinky" in their show cages

A Precious Award...

No comment... :o)

Heaven Slate - growing and growing...

Latest photos of Heaven Sent - a nice Brentwood Hotel descendant in Portugal:

Great win in Portugal

Our dear friend Minda Santos took Best of Breed and also Res. Best in Show (!) at the last show in Portugal with her 6 months old alpaca sow.

That's her: Red Star dos Roedores do Algarve :

Congratulations!

Frankliny - earlier known as Franklin... :o)

This is Cobre Verde Frankliny, the texel girl from the litter below (Orestes - Touch). A nice little red-white, let's see how he develops...

Heaven Slate

A Portugese gentleman - with a rose. Even if the rose is bigger than him at the moment... :o)
Anyway, this is Heaven Slate dos Roedores do Algarve, a slate blue texel baby boar. His breeder is Minda Santos, and "Heaven Slate" comes from Brentwood Hotel parents and grandparents (father: Bunuel at Brentwood Hotel). We wish all the best to him!

Here they are...

The tri babies are 10 days old now, so I thought it was time to take the first photos... It is a special litter as I do not expect such colours in the future.

Serengeti at Brentwood Hotel (boar):

Silver Yellow at Brentwood Hotel (sow):

Sounds Familiar at Brentwood Hotel (sow):

Litter of 4 red-whites

The first litter of our German import Orestes vom Gotenholz (texel, red-white) was born! Mother is Touching The Sky at Brentwood Hotel (sheltie, tortie-white).
4 nicely marked babies (3 sheltie and 1 texel) with deep red colour.
Congrats to the breeder Ági Juhász!