It’s cheers all round as David Brewer wins Skipton poultry championship
Poultry made a welcome return to the exhibition arena at Skipton Auction when the latest Craven Feather Auctions show and sale produced a championship success for up-and-coming 19-year-old local breeder, Cononley’s David Brewer. (Sat, Sept 2)
He clinched the title with his first prize large fowl pen, a trio of 2017-born White Silkies, a cock and two pullets, which went on to achieve the day’s top price of £120.
David, who is studying primary education at Leeds Beckett University, has been breeding poultry for a decade – he also keeps Rhode Island Reds – with more than a little help along the way from well-known fellow Cononley husband and wife poultry breeders, Keith and Anne Chatburn. The teenager also sold another trio of White Silkies at £70.
Judge John Falshaw, of Gisburn, awarded the reserve championship to the first prize small fowl pen, a trio of 22-week-old Partridge Wyandotte pullets from Lancashire breeder J Hindle, of Oswaldtwistle. These made second top price of £80.
Other leading prices were £65 for a second pen of Partridge Wyandottes, £60 for a trio of Silver Pencilled Wyandotte and £60 for an Indian Runner Duck.
The next Craven Feather Auctions show and sale is the Christmas fixture on Saturday, December 9. Entries close on December 1.