Animal fancy is a hobby involving the appreciation, promotion, or breeding of pet or domestic animals .
6-665: The American Bantam Association is a poultry fancy association for breeders of bantam poultry. It publishes the Bantam Standard , with detailed descriptions of all the bantam breeds and varieties that it recognizes; in most – but not all – cases, these are the same as those recognised by the American Poultry Association . It also publishes a quarterly magazine and annual yearbook, hosts poultry shows and provides judges for them, and provides information on bantam breeds. It sanctions or has sanctioned
12-672: A number of poultry shows across the United States held by local groups, such as the Poultry and Rare Bird Show at the Los Angeles County Fair and the Ohio National. The first president of the association was Charles E. Rockenstyie, who died in 1944. Animal fancy Fancy may include ownership, showing, animal sports and other competitions, and breeding . Hobbyists may simply collect specimens of
18-438: The animal in appropriate enclosures ( vivaria ), such as an aquarium , terrarium , or aviary . Some fanciers keep hobby farms , or menageries (private zoos ). There are many animal fancy clubs and associations in the world, which cater to everything from pigeons to Irish Wolfhounds . Fanciers and fancierdom may collectively be referred to as the fancy for that kind of animal, e.g. the cat fancy . Animal fancy includes
24-494: The establishment of multi-breed groups, and may or may not affiliate with them, while national organizations often have subnational affiliates. Organizations at any level may combine the features of a breed registry , a fanciers' membership organization , a competition governing body , a trade association , a preservation group, and other categories, and may be nonprofits or commercial enterprises . Similar species-specific clubs exist for various non-domesticated species, e.g.
30-897: The interests of keepers of pet and show animals, and breeders of livestock and working animals (e.g. the British Horse Society ), or focus on one or the other (e.g. the British Show Horse Association ). For some species, there are few multi-breed organizations, but many breed-specific clubs, e.g. the Australian Stock Horse Society, the Parthenais Cattle Breeders Association, the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of New Zealand, etc. Single-breed clubs often exist regardless of
36-497: The keeping of animals considered exotic pets ; a rapidly growing example is herpetoculture , the keeping of reptiles and amphibians . Some examples of international animal fancy organizations are: For many species of domesticated animal there are no international groups, but numerous unrelated national organizations, e.g. the American Poultry Association , and the New Zealand Cavy Club. They may commingle
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