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Vice-President's Message
Thank you to all who have contacted me regarding the newsletter. Your positive comments are very much appreciated and have only encouraged me to work harder.
We have received several articles since the July newsletter but by no means are we anywhere close to the amount I was hoping for. As I have said before this is your newsletter. If the articles don’t come to me they can’t possibly be passed on to you. At present we are only a small club, and as you may know there is much misinformation out there regarding the Oriental Roller. The more input you have as a member the better it will be for all. Enough said!
Enclosed with your newsletter is the Standard of Perfection. I believe you will find this most helpful in your endeavors to raise the perfect Flying Oriental roller. The picture is not a final proof and the text is also getting a bit of a tune-up so an update will eventually follow. I felt you should all receive a copy of what we have at present. If it helps you then that is all we are looking for.
We are now taking orders for bands. As you may remember we ordered 1000 last year and managed to sell all of them within three weeks.
Obviously a repeat performance would be nice for the club so please order them right away. You are welcome to send me your order and I will do my best to accommodate any particular series of bands you would like. As usual it is first come first serve. The bands cost $0.25 each plus $1.00 for shipping and handling.
As you might imagine I would rather have an article from you here but alas there was not any forthcoming so instead I thought I would let you know what Dora and I have been doing regarding our plans for the new breeding season. It has always occurred to me that “more is less and less is more”.
We have either sold or given away all the birds that we weren't too serious about and definitely not interested in reproducing. This left us with five pairs of Almonds, two pairs of blacks, one pair of reds, and one pair of yellows.
It sure doesn’t sound like much but last season we raised 60 birds without any problem and threw away at least 20 eggs. This year shouldn’t be much different.
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