Colorado

[coloradochick]

Hey Karen, I take that back they were hatched on 10-27 so they will be 13 weeks on Tues. I'm thinking it's a girl but who knows. She looks just like a Marans but with tufts on her cheeks. I'll get picks up this weekend.

Smoky, we went to the show at the Adams County Fairgrounds in Oct, that was the Feather Fanciers correct?

That stinks about the way Stock Show handles the Poultry people. We couldn't make it last Saturday but it sounds like we didn't miss much. Sad.

 

[CityChicker]

It's sad about some of the shows, but really we are all to blame. I mean- we all are Colorado poultry people, right? I have come to realize that I can't complain really about turn out at places like the Stock Show or the State Fair (which was mentioned a couple of months ago) and at the same time not show any of my birds either. The people in these clubs are volunteering their time. If we want to be involved, it is sort of up to each of us to go out there and get involved. That is sometimes easy to forget. It is not up to someone else to drag us and our birds out to the shows.

I know, for myself personally, time is one of the biggest issues. I simply have none of it. I barely have time to get done with my daily chores and check in online periodically throughout the day. We all have busy lives. I am gone from the house from about 6-7 in the morning until sometimes 11 or later in the evening. Who has time to load up the critters and head down to Pueblo or set down at the National Western all day? LOL. The other issue of course is biosecurity. I really think that keeps a lot of people from showing too.

 

[Wifezilla]

Oh man Zilla! My little Black Silkie Beebers is broody AGAIN! and she's sitting on unfertiled eggs since I'm having to get rid of all my chickens but 2

The chicks she hatched out last are now 10 weeks old (I only have one, the other baby was taken by a hawk) and she's been sitting again now for about 2 weeks. I wish we were closer.

If I can't find a local tester maybe I will mail you some. I need to figure out if the little quail roo is a dud or if it is my stupid incubator.​

 

[ZooNana]

durrr I didn't see this section and thread here till just now.

Howdy all!

Did everyone enjoy this beautiful weather today?

Wifezilla, I'd test for you but I have no idea when I'll have gas money to get over there (DH finally quit his awful job last week and got a new one, so money will be tight for a few weeks)

 

[Wifezilla]

Let me know when you are going to be traveling to the south end. Maybe we can meet somewhere near the interstate.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

ZooNana, Welcome to the Colorado thread! Where are you?

RE: Stock Show - Just got back, and as always, I'm exhausted and my legs feel like rubber bands! There were chickens up on the 3rd floor, but, as mentioned earlier on this thread, they were all sale birds, and not the show birds. I think the same holds true for all the rabbits. Good think I'm not raising Bantam White Cochins - I would definitely not have left empty-handed. There were a couple of just stunning trios for sale. As for my next life as a farmer/rancher, definitely going with the Shorthorn Cattle - just beautiful - I especially love the mottled, sable colors.

 

[ZooNana]

OK wifezilla

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Thank you.

I'm east of Colorado Springs, near Ellicott

 

[aussieheelr]

I made it over to stock show this year, but not my chickens. I'm seriously looking into looking into what it would take to become a APA judge. So many of the birds there were mismarked... saw what was labled as a BR pair that looked like a sex link roo and a very poorly marked BR hen (if that's even what she was) in one cage... they were asking $40 for the pair if my memory serves me well. It was also so sad that there were so many roos with horrible frost bite on their combs, I would be so heartbroken if that happened to one of my roos not to mention embarased if someone saw him like that!
I must have gone on the wrong day though, only saw boar goats... was REALY hoping to see a nubian or tog doeling, not that DH would let me have her but would have been nice I guess.

It's been so long since I've made it over to the Colorado thread... any more westerns slopers join?

 

[Luvducks]

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HI, I am over here on the Western Slope.Up on Glade Park. Where are you located?

 

[Smoky73]

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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.