Cees and Han Schrijver form a father/son partnership for about 25 years. After starting with an aviary filled with several specimens of birds we decided to specialize in budgerigars. The first years of the hobby we were breeding with average quality of birds. After three years we became members of a budgerigar society. In 4 years we got the status of champion breeders. We saw that to compete in the champion section better birds were needed. We decided to get birds from the better breeders in Holland and Belgium. We choose for a specific line and type of birds. After years our line became infertile. We decided to start over again and we went to England to purchase birds. This was not so easy. After visiting many breeders in a period over several years we knew with which lines we would like to go on. The English birds are the basis for the birds we now have. From 1997 on we introduced birds from Germany. The last years this are some special birds from Jo Mannes.

Han is a certified judge since 1992. Since then he judged a lot of shows all over Europe. The judging list can be found on a special page on this site.

We have 2 aviaries and can use 30 breeding cages(one unit of 16 cages, one unit of 6 cages and 4 units of 2 cages). Normally we are breeding about 100 young budgerigars in a year but it depends on the number of pairs we put up. Our aim is still to fill all 30 breeding cages with only top quality pairs.

Colours
We breed: mainly normals, some cinnamons, pieds, whites and yellows.

Breeding cages

Nestboxes with two compartments are used.

One of the most important qualities of a good budgie must be the mask.
This is an example of how we like to see it: