BLUE LIZARD AND LIZARDS CATEGORIES TO THE SHOWS.

The Italian Lizard Canary Club  has always  followed the guidelines of the "Lizard Canary Association of Great Britain" and the main purpose of the Club is to maintain, or if you prefer, to preserve the "PURE BRED", therefore the blue lizard has never been admitted to the shows of the  Club.

As everyone knows the blue Lizard may be exhibited at all the International shows and at the World Championships. There are many international shows all over Italy, in  the south at  Bari, some shows  in Sicily and so on, so the possibility of confrontation with Blue Lizards are also very many.

One of the major initiatives that the "Club" tried to introduce recently has been to increase the categories of Lizard to the FOI’s shows. To expand the categories of  Lizard gold and  Lizard silver, in the three types of caps : " Non cap, broken cap, clear cap." This initiative was rejected this year by FOI, despite the involvement of the "old"  and of the “new” Technical Committee.  It 's really a shame. The organizers of the shows would have more exhibits, and the breeders would have had the opportunity to bring many more lizards with various types of caps, that they would normally not bring to the shows.

Also the selection would have been beneficial, we breeders would no longer be overly driven to achieve clear caps, with all the deleterious consequences that may arise.
During the World Championship 2014 in Bari, we held a meeting with some of the European lizard canary clubs and we have agreed to request the COM/OMJ to increase the lizard categories, according to the caps also at the World Championship.

( http://lizardcanaryclubitalia.blogspot.it/2014/02/bari-2014-world-show-report-of-huw-evans.html/ )

The COM has rejected this proposal as you can read at the end of the article, on the meeting held between the European technical committees and reported on the number of Italian Ornithological 8-9 "Three Italians in Paris."

Returning to the blue lizard, in 2012 the Club organized a satisfaction questionnaire to be issued to the members whose final result did not authorize the inclusion of the blue lizard in the programs of the club.

13 members responded by e-mail and 7  by regular mail. Members who responded had kept Lizards between a maximum of 36 years and a minimum of 1 year.

Couples for breeding ranged from a minimum of 4 to a maximum of 60, an average of about 18.

Only 9 breed the blue Lizard and 7 of them have kept them from 2 years up to 19, an average of 8 years. Nearly everyone preferred the classic Lizard, but two breeders think  that blue Lizards  are very beautiful and  another two breeders think that  the blue lizards are interesting and  have a different beauty.

55% (11) believed the  blue lizards are dangerous  and the other (9) 45% no. The justification of the two opposing arguments are: the dominant blue cannot create genetic problems, however the others claimed that the white gene is alien to the classic Lizard and can lead to changes in the genome of the classic Lizard, so could pollute the race.

9 breeders, out of  20 wanted to exhibit the Blue Lizard also at FOI shows (National) , 12 breeders out of 20  would accept only the blue Lizard  at the international shows.

Finally, 18 out of 20 breeders do not like the creation of a different club for the blue Lizard as in Great Britain

Angelo citro