Is anyone else taking birds to the Los Banos Spring Fair on Friday? My son is entering my bantam Partridge Wyandotte pair; since they're my special pets, I washed them for him. He gets to wash his meat pen! And he's entering one of my Coturnix quail, but I don't think we'll put the stress of washing on that bird.
He's also entered the egg competition. I always let him pick the eggs out, and we don't have a uniform flock. That's fun to sell rainbow cartons, but a little hard on the uniformity. He's selected two of my olive eggers' eggs. They don't exactly match in color, but they're pretty uniform in size and quality to each other. I'm also putting aside a carton from the large Wyandottes, as they match colors better, but are worse on size. If he doesn't get enough green eggs, he can use those.
Next year would be better, as the Blue Andalusian flock will be laying, but I don't think he'll be in 4-H, and this isn't an open show.
He's also entered the egg competition. I always let him pick the eggs out, and we don't have a uniform flock. That's fun to sell rainbow cartons, but a little hard on the uniformity. He's selected two of my olive eggers' eggs. They don't exactly match in color, but they're pretty uniform in size and quality to each other. I'm also putting aside a carton from the large Wyandottes, as they match colors better, but are worse on size. If he doesn't get enough green eggs, he can use those.
Next year would be better, as the Blue Andalusian flock will be laying, but I don't think he'll be in 4-H, and this isn't an open show.
I lost my whole flock due to poor biosecurity. Read about it here: Infectious Laryngotracheitis, and learn from my mistakes so it doesn't happen to you.
I lost my whole flock due to poor biosecurity. Read about it here: Infectious Laryngotracheitis, and learn from my mistakes so it doesn't happen to you.
