WOW!!! What a week/weekend we had!! SO much fun and the time to hang out with the "big dogs" and soak up the information that oozes from them.
Craig, you are such a wonderful, kind, helpful, GENEROUS, and supportive person. I hope someday to be in a reciprocating position, and that I would have something to offer you that might be good to fit into your program. I just can't say enough good things about you AND your birds. Your babies are home and safely settled in their temporary coops until my building is delivered today or tomorrow.
Years ago I bred and exhibited dogs (Keeshonden) and there is simply NO comparison between dog folks and chicken folks. Poultry, or at least chicken people are the most fantastic group of people. The politics and competition in dogs is ruthless; with chickens it's very competitive, but everyone has so much fun, and I for one don't have enough of that in my life, so it's very therapeutic for me. HA!
Just wish I had an endless source of money.
I came home with way more birds than I went there with, and Mandy's eagle eye found the most unexpected and fantastic deal for me. Sheryl Butler had a sale area and dear, sweet Mandy found a gorgeous blue hen that propels my Blue breeding program, numerous years into the future. In the process of making that purchase, Sheryl's hen that went reserve variety, and a lovely little cockerel in the show were offered for sale. Needless to say I jumped all over that offer. They are now home with me and I can hardly take my eyes off of them.
Today is going to be one of those days where all I do is stand around and look at my birds.
Before I jump off here, I'd also like to thank Tom Roebuck for my drop dead gorgeous Buff Columbian pair, Jamie Matts for my Partridge pair and again Craig for my Columbians and the Birchen kid. That little Birchen is going to be my foot guy. He has the most beautiful feet, they are almost orange.
Mandy I want to thank you for the whole trip, without you I wouldn't have what I have now AND you were a real life saver at the end when we were packing up. It would have taken me the rest of the day yesterday to get all that stuff and the birds hauled out to the car.
Nancy
There's NO way that anyone could get pics of all those birds just WOW!!! and I did get a trio of gold laced bantams while I was there, not sure if you saw them or not
