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Yep, that was the Feather Fanciers.
I want to add to what CityChicker said. Many states have great turn outs at their state shows. I know that when I go to Kansas and New Mexico, their shows are enormous!!!! Wonderful to see what other states do. Colorado has not really been much for open shows for years. Always the stock show, and always the state fair, but, their turn outs were seriously lacking in the poultry areas. And, when these places see there is no poultry and no one cares, they are not going to make a huge effort to make it better.
I personally have not been to the state fair, because it is so dang hot and I have to drive like 4 hours to get there. I am trying for this year, because they are wanting to put on the best show ever. Feather Fanciers show in October is a nice show, but the club members have seriously ticked off most of the exhibitors and many people are not rejoining the club.
I can tell you, if you want to make poultry a bigger and better thing in Colorado, join a club! In my signature is my link for our club the Colorado Poultry Association. We just started putting on a show about 3 years ago so we are small yet. We have many members, but, most members just join for no apparent reason. If you want to change things in Colorado, join a club and have a voice! We WANT people who care enough to have ideas for our fancy. We have bi-monthly meetings, a picnic, a christmas party and the show. We want to be able to have meetings in more places, currently only two areas to go to, and would like to have members on the Western Side to represent us. Our goal is to have reps in all areas of the state, to pass the word around about us, get kids involved and so forth, and to contribute to our newsletters with tips, tricks and ideas- not all about showing, but I try to put in general chicken information for people who just have a few yard hens.. Pretty much, it has only been a handful of us who attend meetings and contribute. We want imput!
We also are the first poultry club anywhere who has a mentoring program at the show for new juniors to learn what it takes to show a bird, how to read coop cards and what needs to be done to prep before the show. We have done this so that parents are not prepping and caring for the birds, instead of the kids and winning. The kids are supposed to do the work, not the parents. It makes it more fair to the other kids.
