just got back from our counties fair, Middlesex (biggest all 4h fair east of the mississippi, bragging rights) I was showing my birds (and also organizing stuff, so running around like a chicken with its head cut off, but i digress) I have a freedom ranger that escaped her fate by running away for a few days and coming back and being friendly with my mom, so now her name is lucky and we keep her as a layer. I figured i might as well bring her since our club hasn't shown any production meat birds in years, we'v only raised them and they're all gone by the fair. her under-feathers were a little gross cause she lies down alot, but other than that she cleaned up pretty good, but still she's a meat bird. She ended up taking reserve bird in show, best individual exhibit, best production (she was the only one) and she was mentioned by name in the news paper (the lowell sun if anybody from eastern mass is wondering) I almost died laughing when i saw she had won reserve bird, cause they're are some really nice birds there, and then lucky, who was $1.20 and should've been in the freezer. Just figured this board could use some amusement, and i was happy to provide....
