Showing and Judging

Bradford Championship Shows of The Past

by Ruth Hollis | NMC History, Showing and Judging | 0 comments

With no show reports to publish, and this being the month after Bradford Championship Show, I thought I would compile a few of the past results from that show, out of interest. Ed 2002Best in Show was Joe Bennett with a Siamese, BOA Bob Chappell with a Black Tan....

Does Size Matter?

by Steven Goss | Showing and Judging | 0 comments

Imagine the scenario … you have planned your breeding to target a particular show and your young mouse is seven weeks and five days old. It is a very good size for an u/8 class. However, the judge compares it side-by-side with a six-week-old classmate and throws...

House of Mouse

by Sarah Cudbill | Featured Articles, Showing and Judging | 0 comments

Recently Stephan asked on the Facebook group for photos of mice with faults. These are to display on the club website. Sadly for me but not the website, I have a plethora of faulty stock. I have started taking and forwarding a few pictures for the website and thought...

Rejoining the NMC

by Stephen Maynard | Showing and Judging | 0 comments

I rejoined the mouse fancy in November 2019, exactly 50 years after I first joined as a teenager, in 1969. Back then there were many more shows, which generally speaking were very well supported. I see from my 1970Year Book, the entry for an ‘average’ show was between...

Remembering the Shows

by Stephan Mönninghoff | Showing and Judging | 0 comments

As a teenager I was always interested in keeping various small animals. I had hamsters, cavies, ferrets and by the age of eleven was breeding New Zealand White and Himalayan rabbits for meat production, which I sold to a processor, when they reached 4 pounds, at about...

A Day’s Judging

by Sarah Cudbill | Featured Articles, Showing and Judging | 0 comments

Alarm goes off at 5am. Up, cup of tea, feed animals. Judging coat packed, rules and standards book packed. Specs, pen, wipes packed. Set off. Mark drives, I read the rules and standards twice as I always do on the way to a judging appointment (and sometimes during...

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