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What are standards? How do local fairs and poultry shows differ, in terms of sheer numbers to compete with or the quality of birds been shown?

Hi Saladin, thanks for your replies. I am totally new to showing my birds, I never have shown any before. How do I go about preparing a bird for showing, and what in your opinion makes a winning bird?

They are buff sussexs that I was wondering about and they came from a small farm where I bought the eggs to incubate. At the minute they are in seperate coops and I was wondering if it would be ok to put them all in one coop together? I can't see any bad traits with them at all, infact they are...

I bought 7 day old chicks and now the hens among them are just starting to lay their first eggs. It ended up I had 4 roosters and 3 hens out of the chicks, I have sold all but one rooster and am keeping the three hens for laying, is it possible for the rooster and the hens to in-breed if they...