No silly at all. I've had plenty of other experienced exhibitors ask me the same question. I stage my preparations. This year was an exception, I've spent so much time with chickens I didn't start baking until 16 days in advance. Normally, all my cookie doughs are done and frozen two months in advance. Then just need to defrost and bake them on submission day. Quick breads are baked and frozen a month in advance. Yeast breads are baked and frozen two weeks in advance. Candy is made and just set aside a week in advance. The last three days I am busy with last minute baking. Creams pies are done two days in advance, fruit pies are done the day of submission. Baking powder biscuits are usually cooling in the car on the way there, LOL. You just have to get a feel for what will taste fresh done in advance and what must be done the day things are turned in.
Thanks for all the good wishes everyone, I'm beat tonight, so I'll give you some results tomorrow.........but I did well, I was happy.
It was less that it was a burger and more that I was sitting down and being waited on. It's the closest restaurant to the fairgrounds and I was ready to sit after three straight days on my feet in the kitchen.
I've found crests stay round and compact on girls and get longish and start to fall to the sides on boys fairly early.
It's way too late to fix those toes. It has to be done within a couple of days of hatch. As long as the bird can get around okay, you can just leave it alone. Otherwise it will need to be culled.
Stupid phone put my response in the box:
So how much of each item do you have to bake to enter it? A dozen cookies? Two dozen? I am guessing one pie would be enough but really 49 different things exhausts me just thinking about it.
Is almost 7 weeks too soon to see the pointier feathers parting? These don't look to be parting like that. I am crossing my fingers because that one is just beautiful.
The toes were completely straight on all my hatched babies. They just started curling like this gradually over the last 10 days. First the outside toes then the next one goes. And only on the Wheaten Ameraucanas. I am getting the B Complex tomorrow. When I watch them walk on them they actually look kind of soft. I am hoping they respond to my wrapping job. I take pics when I do it IF I can do it.
what recipe do you use for your baking powder biscuits? I've been looking for a good one and trying a few different ones and no luck. Also same with sweet rolls. I love big fluffy sweet dinner rolls and can't seem to get them to turn out! Anyway sounds like you have had a very busy weekend, relax 
