A bonnie black Leghorn pullet from retired farm manager, Colin McCrone, Ayr, led the increasingly popular poultry section at LiveScot, wining the award for the best bantam and overall champion of champions.

Mr McCrone, a former Scottish National winner who specialises in Dutch bantams and Leghorns hatches 40 blacks per year and won this year's event with a previously unshown pullet born in June.

Reserve overall was the best waterfowl exhibit, a Saxony Drake from John Dunbar, Stepends, Plains, Airdrie.

Best hard feather was a black/red Modern Game cockerel male. Home-bred and born this year, it was shown by John Caldwell, Pennyfadzeoch, Cumnock.

White Wyandottes lifted the top awards in the large fowl and heavy bantam sections, with a cockerel from Ben Wentink, taking the former, while a pullet from Wigtownshire breeder, Rosslyn Wilson, Whauphill, Newton Stewart, scooped the heavy breed bantam award. Rosslyn also won the best ladies exhibit with a silver laced Wyandotte pullet.

A silver laced Wyandotte was again in the prizes amongst the juniors, taking the top award for three-year-old Poppy Martin, Lower Muirhouse, Cleghorn. Placed at Strathaven and Peebles Poultry Shows, this home-bred pullet is eight months old.

Leading the true bantam section was a black Belgian pullet from Lesley and Aimee Main-Reade.

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Large fowl – Leghorn male or female – 1, 2, 3, Ben Wentink. Sussex AC male or female – 1 and 2, D Walkinshaw. Wyandotte AC male or female – 1 and 2, B Wentink; 3, J Dunbar. AOV HB male or female –1, R Campbell. AV rare breed male or female – 1 and 2, B Wentink.

Bantam heavy breed – Australorp male – 1, J and S McCready. Australorp female – 1, J and S McCready. Orpington female – 1 and 2, J Bonar. Sussex male – R Campbell. Sussex female – 1 and 2, R Campbell. Wyandotte white male – 1, K and W Gardiner; 2, R Wilson. Wyandotte white female – 1, R Wilson; 2 and 3, K and W Gardiner. Wyandotte black male – 1, R Wilson. Wyandotte black female – 1, R Wilson; 2, L and A Main Reade. Wyandotte laced female – 1 and 2, R Wilson; 3, L and A Maine Reade. AOC Wyandotte male – 1, J Dunbar; 2, J Ramsay. AOC Wyandotte female – 1, J Dunbar; 2 and 3, R Wilson. AOV HB male – J Dunbar.

Bantam light breed – Ancona female – 1, J Dunbar. Ancona male – J Dunbar. Leghorn AC female – 1 and champion and 2, C Mc Crone; 2, K and W Gardiner. Poland male – 1 and 2, D Martin. Scots dumpy male – 1, E Martin. Scots Dumpy female – 1, E Martin. Scots Grey male – 1, K Gotch. Scots Grey female – 1 and 2, K Gotch. Silkie AC female – 1, S Noble. Welsummer male – 1, J Ramsay. AOV LB male – 1, J Bonar; 2, C McCrone; 3, J Dunbar. AOV LB female – 1 and 3, L and A Main Reade; 2, C McCrone.

True Bantams – Belgian male – 1 and 2, L and A Main Reade. Belgian female – 1, 2 and 3, L and A Main Reade. Dutch AC male – 1, J Dunbar; 2, C McCrone; 3, S Hamilton. Dutch AC female – 1, J Dunbar; 2, C McCrone; 3, S Hamilton. Japanese AC male – 1, S Hamilton. Japanese AC female – 1 and 2, S Hamilton. Pekin black male – 1, R Wilson. Pekin black female – 1 and 3, L Black; 2, R Wilson. Pekin white male – 1, S Noble; 2, K and W Gardiner. Pekin white female – 1, S Noble; 2, L Black. Pekin AOC female – L Black. Sebright AC male – K Gotch. Sebright AC female – 1 and 2, K Gotch. Serama AC male – S Noble. Serama AC female – S Nole.

Hard feather bantam – OEG black male – 1, K and W Gardiner. OEG black female – 1 and 2, K and W Gardiner; 3, B Thomson. OEG AOC male – 1, K Gotch. OEG AOC female – 1 and 2, R Phillips; 3, K and W Gardiner. Modern Game AC male – 1 and 2, J Caldwell; 3, B Thomson. Modern Game AC female – 1, K Gotch; 2, B Thomson; 3, J Caldwell. AOV HF bantam female – 1, J Dunbar.

Waterfowl – Goose AV male or female – 1, B Greenan; 2, M Leggate. Runner AC male – 1, M Leggate; 2, J Dunbar. AOV HB male – 1 and reserve, J Dunbar; 2, M Leggate; 3, B Greenan. AOV HB female – 1 and 2, M Leggate; 3, Bonnie Greenan. AOV LB male – 1 and 2, B Greenan. AOB LB female – 1, 2 and 3, B Greenan. AV crested male – 1, B Greenan; 2, M Leggate; 3, M Harkness. AV crested female – 1, M Harkness; 2, M Leggate. Call white male – 1 and 2, B Greenan; 3, S Hamilton. Call white female – 1, B Greenan;2, M Harkness; 3, S Hamilton. Call AOC male – 1, L and A Main Reade. Call AOC female – 1, M Harkness; 2, L and A Main Reade. AOV miniature female – 1 and 3, R Phillips; 2, M Leggate.

Ladies – AV Bantam male – 1, R Wilson; 2, J and S McCready; 3, L and A Main Reade. AV Bantam female – 1 and 2, R Wilson; 3, L and A Main Reade. AV waterfowl male – 1, M Leggate. AV waterfowl female – 1, M Leggate.

Juniors – AV Bantam male – 1, A Gardiner. AV Bantam female – 1 and 2, PA Martin; 3, C and F Frame. AV waterfowl male – 1, C and F Frame; 2, S Greenan. AV waterfowl female – 1, L and A Main Reade.

Trios – AV Bantam – 1, J Dunbar; 2, E Martin.

Eggs – Three large white – 1, K and J Stretch. One large white – 1, K Gotch; 2, K and J Stretch. One large brown – 1, E Martin; 2, K Gotch; 3, K and J Stretch. One large AOC – 1, L and A Main Reade. Three Bantam white – L and A Main Reade. Three Bantam AOC – 1, K Gotch; 2, E Martin. One Bantam AOC – 1, L and A Main Reade; 2, E Martin; 3, K Gotch. One duck egg – 1, K Gotch. One large content – 1, K Gotch. One Bantam content – 1, K and J Stretch; 2, L and A Main Reade; 3, R Wilson. One painted or decorated egg – 1, L and A Reade.