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This page is dedicated to the NCS - or National Chinchilla Society for which I have been a member since 2001.
On here you will find
The National Chinchilla Society
Picture of the NCS National Trophies on display The NCS was originally formed as the Chinchilla Fur Breeders Association Ltd, or The C.F.B.A in the early 1950's. Due to it's very name many animal rights activists began campaigns against anti fur trade and targeted the society and it's members as they associated it with the then legal trade, which of course the organisation had no links, or associations to whatsoever. In 1993 the the name was changed to the present National Chinchilla Society. The intent of the Society is to promote the beauty and appreciation of QUALITY CHINCHILLAS as a "living" animal. The policy from the NCS Website states "AIMS -The aims of the Society have remained the same throughout its long history. These are to encourage and promote the keeping, breeding and showing of QUALITY CHINCHILLAS, whilst at all times maintaining good husbandry practices." There are now 4 regions to the NCS, the Scottish, the Northern, the West Midlands & Wales and the Southern. Each has a regional committee, consisting of Chairman who has the final decision regarding regional issues, Vice Chairman, a second to the chairman should he be unavailable is also involved with all regional activities and planning, Secretary/Treasurer, who deals with all the financial issues and ordering of rosettes, etc. Show Manager, who is ultimately in charge or making sure the show runs smoothly on the day, keeping the audience up to speed with what is going on with updates of the judges decision. Each region has it's own stewards who are responsible for moving the animas onto the tables (pls see below for a diagram of the show arrangement) and onto the main table under the lights so the judge may make his decisions. They wear white coats, as does the judge.
There is also a main committee, to oversee all the decisions within the society, which consist of a President, Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary/Treasurer, Show Member which are all very similar to the roles above except they are done for the society as a whole. there are however 2 additional roles, the Publicity Officer, who is responsible for organizing publicity for the NCS maintaining the website and dealing with the member requests/queries and the Editor of the Gazette. The Gazette is published quarterly and has show reports, interesting chinchilla articles updates on the society etc. There is a code of practice which must be upheld whilst exhibiting animals. Below is details of show, their venues, and judges. Also who won the main awards if the show has passed.
Each venue for the show, is slightly different, but they usually all have the following in common;
Also most shows have a certain physical layout to the, they have seats for the exhibitors and spectators, bench's for the animals cages to be placed on whilst waiting to be judged Below shows the usual standard format in which a show physical layout is arranged by the stewards and show manager.
Shows are split into 2 different shows if you like, the first the Novice Show
The six show classes for the Novice Show (AN
- FN) comprise of:-
The second and largest part of the show is the Main Show, the non novice exhibitors
In the Main Show there are six classes (A - F) comprising of:
Pls be patient this part of the site is still in construction.
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