FPC Annual Winter Poultry Show - February 12, 2011

[arianna]

Thank you Matt and HenThymes for reply. Morganton is a drive for me, but I'm sure it will be well worth it. I'll be there.

 

[arianna]

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You will need to bring your own table, chairs, and materials. The hosting club cannot provide this stuff for you. Sellers set up their own areas. Most sell where they park.

I am setting up the BYC Table. Which building the show is in will determine if I use a table I can pull out of a store room in the upper building or bring my own for the livestock building.

Matt

Hello Matt, could you tell if the seller needs to pay a fee? What are the rules to sale, if you want to sale something?
Thank you, Arianna

 

[gavinandallison]

Arianna, we will see you there!! We're driving from Matthews!!

 

[Matt A NC]

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There is no fee to setup to sell at a show. The parking lot will have quite a few folks setup to sell.

Healthy birds only. Make sure you have enough cages for your birds so that they are not over crowded. You will need to provide food and water for them. It is a good idea to bring boxes or something for buyers to take birds home in. Not everyone comes with the intent to buy, so they don't always have carriers.

**LEGAL STUFF**
If you want to sell at a Show, Fleamarket, or other site away from your property you are required by NC law to have a Green Card(License to Sell Poultry in NC).

If you sell the bird from your property then you do not need the license. If you arrange the sell and then deliver off your property you also do not need the license.

Here is the link to the PDF Application for the Green Card: http://www.ncagr.gov/vet/forms/BlankPoultryDealerApplication.pdf

REMEMBER you are applying for a license to sell chickens which is a Poultry/Ratite Dealer. That license is FREE. They run from July 1 through June 30 of each year. It takes less than a week to get the Green Card from the time you stick the Application in the mail.

Matt

 

[Matt A NC]

The show is just 2 weeks away.

***** SETUP *****

We will be setting up on Sunday, Feb 6, starting about 2pm. If anyone in the area wants to lend a hand feel free to come on by. You can do as much or as little as you want.

Also if anyone coming has a good 4x4 truck to help haul the stuff from the storage trailer at the bottom of fairgrounds to the building that would be greatly appreciated. With all the rain/snow/whatever the area down there will probably be fairly muddy. Norm and Carol's big truck, that we normally get to use, is just too heavy to get in and out once loaded.

Using the smaller trucks may take a little longer, but it should work out for the best. Hopefully, if we have enough folks there, we can work in teams loading and unloading fairly quickly. We should be able to get done in time to get home for the SuperBowl.

Matt

 

[Jx2inNC]

Hmm...I may try to make it, as this weekend I could be going to see the folks outside of Asheville. Not sure how feasible it will be to transport a bird or two (or more

) up to show though...which is disappointing.

This may have been asked, but there's no certainty on which breeds are being shown and how many, or is there?

Sorry if it's an awful question...I'm out of the loop!

 

[abChicken]

Is Julia Roberts going to be there?----just wondering

I will be

 

[Matt A NC]

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I can get an estimate come Sunday with final numbers next wednesday. As far as breeds you will just have to come and see. I normally get the numbers on silkies for the folks on here, but the others I don't.

Matt

 

[Jx2inNC]

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I can get an estimate come Sunday with final numbers next wednesday. As far as breeds you will just have to come and see. I normally get the numbers on silkies for the folks on here, but the others I don't.

Matt

Cool, Matt. Thanks!
I'm contemplating what I can do, but either way I'd probably only be able to bring those that could travel with me for the weekend. I'll see what I can do though!

 

[arianna]

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There is no fee to setup to sell at a show. The parking lot will have quite a few folks setup to sell.

Healthy birds only. Make sure you have enough cages for your birds so that they are not over crowded. You will need to provide food and water for them. It is a good idea to bring boxes or something for buyers to take birds home in. Not everyone comes with the intent to buy, so they don't always have carriers.

**LEGAL STUFF**
If you want to sell at a Show, Fleamarket, or other site away from your property you are required by NC law to have a Green Card(License to Sell Poultry in NC).

If you sell the bird from your property then you do not need the license. If you arrange the sell and then deliver off your property you also do not need the license.

Here is the link to the PDF Application for the Green Card: http://www.ncagr.gov/vet/forms/BlankPoultryDealerApplication.pdf

REMEMBER you are applying for a license to sell chickens which is a Poultry/Ratite Dealer. That license is FREE. They run from July 1 through June 30 of each year. It takes less than a week to get the Green Card from the time you stick the Application in the mail.

Matt

Thank you Matt.

Your answer was very helpful.