Colorado

[coloradochick]

Okay update in the pic requests.....we need pics of all the new family members that are coming to their new homes today

 

[colowyo0809]

Ok, promised I'd take pics so here goes. I put the camera away before realizing there was like another row and a half, but you get the general idea

 

[wildflowerseed]

Attempting to post photos.... here they are!

We call her Lucy

This one we purchased from Coopa Cabana. She is soooo pretty! We call her Genevieve.

This is the silkie

we call her Belle. She was free, and seemed a little worse for ware. We washed her up and look how pretty she is!


Here are some pics of our other ladies:

our pullets June, Betty and Dahlia.

And the queens, broody little Faye

and "big" bossy Eleanor

who is a love, but thinks she needs to discipline the flock! Well, somebody has to take care of all these children

 

[coloradochick]

Congrats on the new babies!!! I think I see Aimee from Manifestedwings.com standing by the red checked tablecloth!! So everyone just parks their car and then sets the birds on the ground by the cars or is there a specific "viewing" area? Was there quite a few people?

 

[colowyo0809]

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As far as I could tell there was several facilitators there telling you where to park and collecting fees. There was also four ladies there from the "lets make sure every bird here has avian flu and pnuemonic plague and leprosy so we can get rid of every bird in the nation that isn't on tyson's farms" agency taking samples and such. But, as far as placement of birds and such went you put them on the ground, or the back of your truck, or wherever. it was kind of hard to see some peoples birds because they had them in the backs of their trucks with toppers on but it went good I thought

was kind of funny watching certain people walking around holding four or five birds in each hand upside down by their feet!

 

[Wifezilla]

There was also four ladies there from the "lets make sure every bird here has avian flu and pnuemonic plague and leprosy so we can get rid of every bird in the nation that isn't on tyson's farms" agency taking samples and such.

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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Wildflower, it was great to meet you! I love the name Genevieve - and it looks like she's already feeling right at home!

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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This was my first swap - and I'm still trying to get that image out of my head - not something I'm used to, and not really something I want to get used to. I know I'd be much less (probably not at all) upset if I raised meat birds, but it's hard to watch when all you raise is ornamentals. I just keep reminding myself that that is the nature of the poultry world.

 

[coloradochick]

I couldn't and don't want to get used to that either. And were these people actually taking samples of stuff of there to just cause problems?

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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No - we were referring to the birds that had been purchased for stock pots and were being carried around by their feet.