After 13 years, the Bermuda Poultry Fanciers Society has been resurrected.

Tomorrow the group will be holding their annual January show — one of the longest-running agricultural shows in Bermuda — displaying their prize-winning chickens, pigeons, ducks, rabbits, and turkeys in the Jack King building at the Botanical Gardens.

President Ronnie Lopes said he was excited to be bringing the popular show back after the group became defunct in 2000.

“We did some research, and at the time we thought [the Bermuda Poultry Fanciers Society] was formed in 1914. So we thought this year would be our 100th anniversary. But an old trophy was discovered from 1911, given by the New York Poultry Association, so we’re actually older than 100 years.

“We used to have an annual show every January but we haven’t had one since 2000. Some older members passed away, some new members moved off the Island, everybody had something going on.”

But after the Agricultural Exhibition in April this year, Mr Lopes said more and more people began approaching him asking for the group to be reformed.

Mr Lopes decided to hold a meeting and gauge how interested people might be in reforming the Society. “A ton of people showed up and we got the club up and running again,” he said.

Governor George Fergusson will open the event tomorrow. Students will also be attending after a colouring contest returned over 1,300 entries.

Residents can expect more than 300 assorted birds. For children there will be an educational display about chicken breeding.