Egg Swiping at Shows

[bambi]

If you take something, no matter what it is and it does not belong to you,it is stealing. Not sure why you didn't ask the owner if you could have it but we learn from our mistakes I hope you will see the owner in the future and then you can make it right .This will also help the owner feel good as well. Good luck

 

[tammyd57]

Your Karma return for stealing that egg would be to hatch out the ugliest cuckoo OEG bantam on Earth!

 

[Redcatcher]

This was 25+ years ago and I have been to quite a few poultry shows and swap meets since then. I got a wonderful purebred roo from it that I never bred or showed and lived to be 13 years old. The only thing that I have "stolen" since then was a package of vegetable seeds from the grocery store that accidentally got left in the basket. No trend there. I have had far more eggs stolen from me than that one I stole.

 

[yotetrapper]

If I showed birds and caught someone stealing an egg from me, and it wasn't a little kid, I would press charges.

 

[featherbaby]

Redcatcher, I admire your honesty in admitting that you did something wrong. I applaud that you had the courage to say you did it and would never do it again. As members of the human race I believe every single one of us has done something dishonest and lived to regret it. Fortunately, forgiveness is available for the asking. None of us should "cast the first stone" at you when we are guilty of something too.

In life we all have a choice to be a shining example.....or a horrible warning. At various times I have been both. I highly recommend the former.

 

[mediazeal]

Quote:
well said

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Feather....my sentiments, exactly.

It's awfully easy to get "high and mighty"

 

[kathyinmo]

I don't show birds, but it would seem to me that the majority of the eggs would not even be fertile anyway. Isn't it true that if you are showing a bird you must prepare in advance? Wouldn't you have the hen (or pullet) away from the others (ie no rooster around her to muss up her feathers)? Just my thought on the subject.....

 

[adoptedbyachicken]

The only show I have taken any of my chickens to the staff collected eggs laid and sold them at the information counter. I guess they thought they were selling them as eating eggs, but weeks after the show it was in the local paper that the buyer (she went every day and got some, she may have gotten all of them) had hatched them out. The picture was really cute, all these fuzzy butts in a brooder with the proud owner, the story put out as human interest and a Fair follow-up, how this lady had enjoyed the fair and been there every day admiring chickens. Well the nasty e-mails to editor from breeders regarding the theft of genetics and the questioning of the Fair policy on selling eggs without the owner's consent or even knowledge... Yipes.

I had been running all my birds together for months, I really did not care even if she did get a pure bred out of it, but I can see others getting upset. Worst part was it was done, there was no resolution, the show committee stated they would ask her not to show those birds in their reply to the paper. That may have appeased some people but really pointless and unenforceable I thought, and does nothing to address the genetics she now had available to her.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Some exhibitors AI during show season; some all the time. Some leave their females with the males and others do not.

Every show (excluding fun/lawn shows) I've ever been to said that all eggs laid at the show became the property of the show. I have seen them placed on display. I like the idea of an auction for them. At a lawn show I donated for auction a couple of eggs my birds laid there. I've also been given & given away eggs.