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[OR4-hmom]

I will be showing bantam Cornish, Ko Shamo's OEGB Sumatras. New Hampshire large fowl. Water fowl. ...Runners, east Indies White Call, Mallards and an Egyptian goose. ..and probably something I forgot.

Walt

Turns out we are going to Redding this weekend, if we can get down that way I'll have to walk through and drool some.

 

[farmhand]

Happy to hear your CL program is in the growth stage. Must feel good to be at the point of being able to focus on the finer points. I know how much work it take sto get to that point.

Sadly, my mom's dog got into my "pet" flock's pen" and killed 17 chickens including Buddy, my bantam barred rock rooster. I have not posted anything about the attack until now because it has been too hard to talk about. Even now, I am shaking.

I heard the screams and ran to the coop to find a sea of dead (17) and injured (5) chickens The dog was still in the pen and ran up to me with a huge proud grin on her face as if saying, "look what I did".

It took all my willpower not to kill the dog. Frankly, I think I was in too much shock to do much. Sadly I lost Buddy and his two Barred Rock girlfriends plus several other birds that were dear to me.

I am sorry to hear of your loss.

 

[PetRock]

But WE love you @chiqita ! Sorry, but I actually had the opposite chicken-talking day. I had the same conversation regarding not being able to sex silkies at hatch. Fortunately the gal I was yacking with was willing to research a little more. I also had a great visit with our UPS man - he & his wife are our next addicts-in-training (and he knows about the silkie thing & bought adults). Lol. @PetRock he is very interested in our Pita Pinta project. He wants a dual purpose LF & his wife wants a pretty/friendly breed. I introduced him to the pretties..

Yeah for Pita Pintas!!!!!

 

[Audio51]

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Oh how awful! What a horrible experience! I will be Dog Sitting for my daughters dog the week while they go camping. This is good reminder to keep a close watch on him and not let him off the back porch!

 

[TheKeeper]

My first zebra dove of 2015 hatched yesterday! Yay!

 

[Chrysolinsbirds]

What's a zebra dove? I'm pretty sure I want some now....

 

[Kaylish]

Happy to hear your CL program is in the growth stage.  Must feel good to be at the point of being able to focus on the finer points.  I know how much work it take sto get to that point.  

Sadly,   my mom's dog got into my "pet" flock's pen" and killed 17 chickens including Buddy, my bantam barred rock rooster.   I have not posted anything about the attack until now because it has been too hard to talk about.  Even now, I am shaking.  

 I heard the screams and ran to the coop to find a sea of dead  (17) and injured (5) chickens   The dog was still in the pen and ran up to me with a huge proud grin on her face as if saying,  "look what I did".

 It took all my willpower not to kill the dog.  Frankly,  I think I was in too much shock to do much.  Sadly I lost Buddy and his two Barred Rock girlfriends plus several other birds that were dear to me.    

g Words just don't seem enough but I am so very sorry. Truly heartbreaking.

I will be showing bantam Cornish, Ko Shamo's OEGB Sumatras. New Hampshire large fowl. Water fowl. ...Runners, east Indies White Call, Mallards and an Egyptian goose. ..and probably something I forgot.

Walt

Sounds like you have your hands full! I saw East Indies for the first time in Modesto and found them stunning!

 

[fowlman01]

g Words just don't seem enough but I am so very sorry. Truly heartbreaking.
Sounds like you have your hands full! I saw East Indies for the first time in Modesto and found them stunning!

I am used to showing a lot of birds, this is going to be pretty easy. We show 30-50 birds at every show and we go to all of them in CA. If you looked at Indies at Modesto 99% entered where mine. They look even better in the sunlight.






Walt

 

[OR4-hmom]

2 years ago when I made it to Red Bluff 1 of the judges was taking his final selections outside to examine than in natural light. How you judges temember all the fine points on so many breeds makes my head hurt!

 

[fowlman01]

2 years ago when I made it to Red Bluff 1 of the judges was taking his final selections outside to examine than in natural light. How you judges temember all the fine points on so many breeds makes my head hurt!

Not all judges remember the fine points, but they are supposed to look them up if they don't know. The APA Standard has 400 pagers of things to remember.

Walt