Alan Dempsey's short bio,birdroom and Yorkshire canaries 2016 !

Alan Dempsey is one of the greatest Norwich canaries breeder and a very talented judge in Norwich and Yorkshire canaries (his new "love"). Alan shared with us a video from his youngsters,some photos from his birdroom  and he wrote a few things about himself....
"When i was maybe 9 or 10 years of age i keeped my first canary and as years moved on i keep some native goldfinches and bullfinchs for a few years, but it was the canaties was my first love i was lucky to be living close to some great breeders of both Yorkshire and Norwich it did not take long to adapt to these breeds as i had great people around me my uncle Liam and Terry Bryan and Willie Bryan and aslo living behind me David O Keeffe i was around 15 at this stage but it was the norwich that i fell in love with i was lucky to optain some good stock from big Peter Aherne in Waterford and my good Friend John Fahy from which i developed a line and had good sucess after 2 years i had to go champion and compete with the people who had helped me in previous years but still helped me to produce good birds, I am very lucky that i still have these breeders around me today, I also keep some Yorkshires now which I am really enjoying at the moment again getting great help from the Bryan brothers Terry and Willie, Ned Power, Ollie Quinn Dave O Keeffe And all the lads i must say they are great to me, my shed is 30 feet long and 12 feet wide i have 80 breeding cages.
 I also have flights Cages 16 ft long which i get my hens fit for the breeding season, my breeding regime is simple enough once my hens are fit i give very little in the line of egg foods or condition seed i depend on natural light and plenty of baths, the best advice ever given to me was when you think the birds are ready give them another week and take it from their, i run a cock bird with several hens, my Yorkshires are great birds to rear their own chicks but my Norwich i use feeders and only use one hen no cock birds i find there is less interference with the nests, Moulting takes place in the flight cages i try not to move them too much, when they are nearly finished i move to a single cage the birds i hope to show"