How many time does things like this happen to you (showing birds)

[CoopedChik]

I've got 2 months before my birds are being hauled up to the fair. I bought all new show cages. All new shipping cages. 6 new show birds and have new food dishes and everything all planned out for the show (we where not ready at ALL lat year every thing went wrong. But we still managed to get a best of breed ribbon) I even made myself an emergency show kit this time. I need to have a minimum of 10 birds entered to also purchase a sale coop. And this year I am timing it just right to have my purebred chicks ready to sell.
But of course with all this planning. My Millie Fleur hen jumped from her show coop when I was feeding her and broke some of her feathers

so now I only have 9 birds. So I thought no biggey I have a beautiful female mallard in the duck pen. She looks divine. Well she did look divine. UNTIL TODAY, she decided to pull out her feathers and make a nest! So now I'm searching every where for a replacement bird. ANY BIRD. who just looks pretty enough to go up. I'm sure I'll find one in time but it never fails all this planning and then something always comes up lol.

Here's my Cochin hen who won last year even though she had poped an egg on her and had yolk all over her chest. I had nothing to clean her off with. But luckily it was raining. so I held her outside for a minute

And some one was nice enough to let me borrow their blow dryer. Lol the judges never noticed.



Does anyone else have any last minute mayhem stories?

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Hey was she the only bird in the show? I see all the other pens are empty

 

[CoopedChik]

Actually you can't see any other cages there and No I just picked her up an hour late because I had a business meeting.

 

[juliechick]

Oh, I've been there. At a show last year, I had our 1 Silkie hen all perfect and clean. When I opened the carrier at the show, she had somehow managed to not only get covered in poop, but she also pulled out almost all her fluffy foot feathers on one foot! I was embarrassed to have her in the show, but we cleaned her and stuck her in the cage because I didn't want to keep her in the carrier all day.

 

[RHRanch]

Well it wasn't at a show, but at a meetup I had a bird get stepped on by another bird or something and it had poo on its back and someone came by and said to me: "Your birds are really dirty, you should wash them." (I had washed ALL of them before the meetup)