Labor Day Chicken Gathering - Tahlequah, OK

[Kassaundra]

Did someone say water balloons????


Here it comes!!!!


Splat!!!!


Now to get Grandma wet!




Wooo Hooo not this time!!!




Grandma 2, granddaughter 0


Thank you fingernail clippers!!!!


Oh man that was close!!!!!!!


Her luck just ran out!!!!

 

[artsyrobin]

awesome pics! I made it home with these beauties from betsy




bbeen wondering about your guinea betsy- did he find a home?

 

[Kassaundra]

Some of the coops and animal housing built by Four Seasons Handyman

 

[Kassaundra]

awesome pics! I made it home with these beauties from betsy




bbeen wondering about your guinea betsy- did he find a home?

I do not think it did

 

[Kyzmette]

Hey this Kelly, Shelbydog's "and friend". I wanted to thank everybody for a fabulous day! I met some amazing people today and am tickled to know I'm not the only Crazy Chicken Lady out there. My feathered family grew today, and will hopefully grow even larger if these Silver Grey Dorkin eggs hatch. It was a great pleasure to meet all of you!

 

[BetsyOK]

Great start to what we're hoping will be an annual event! Thanks to all the hard, hard work Coral did in putting this together. The Four Seasons Handymen were very enthusiastic about having this event at their location, and their coops and various other buildings were very well built, with lots of really great features, as well as being affordable. Wish we needed one. The site was excellent!

It was so good to see old friends and meet a lot of new ones. Enjoyed visiting with several young people who are enthusiastic and knowledgeable about poultry. Yes, the coral blue guinea did find a home! SHE went home with Kevin (5 Acre Farm) and his darling daughter, Hunter. I thought she was a male, never having heard the female sound and because of her big wattles (not always true), but out among the other guineas, she began making the "female only" sound, pretty often. They have several other guineas about the same age. YAY!

At the request of several, here is the recipe for the "chocolate" shown eaten at the event:

SHEATH CAKE

Mix together 2 cups sugar and two cups of flour in a large mixing bowl. Heat together 1 stick of margarine*, 1/2 cup oil, 4 TBsp. Nestles Quick and 1 cup water. Bring to boil and pour over flour and sugar. Add 2 beaten eggs and 1/2 cup buttermilk, 1 tsp. soda and 1 tsp. vanilla. Bake in 16x20 (jelly roll) pan at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes.

Icing

Bring to boil 1 stick margarine*, 4 Tbsp. Nestles Quick & 6 TBsp. buttermilk. Remove from heat and add 1 box powdered sugar, sifted, 1 tsp. vanilla and 2 cups chopped nuts. Mix well and pour over the cake hot.

*I use butter.

 

[Poco Pollo]

Kass - Love the pictures. Thank you for posting them. Now I will be able to remember my dousing with refreshed clarity : ) > SPLASH!!! <

Thanks to the Rogers brothers and all the folks who came to enjoy the day. I had a great time meeting new people and looking at all the beautiful birds. I brought home five silver gray dorking chicks. Too cute to pass up : )

Thanks to Victoria and CathieSue for volunteering their time to help make the event a success. I have a feeling that the location of the event will be visited again by poultry enthusiasts. It's like a shady park, when all the world is a blistering hotbed of tar and concrete. Thanks again Todd and Tim. You were gracious hosts.

I don't have any pictures to share since I was running here and there all day. I may have dropped a pound or two, or not, since the chocolate dessert Betsy brought was worth a second helping

Thanks for posting the recipe.

 

[NanaKat]

Sure enjoyed the photos of the Labor Day chicken event and seeing familiar faces and some new folks too! Unable to attend but the pictures bring home the camaraderie shared by people with a like mind...and love for poultry. Congrats to all who worked so hard to bring the event together.

 

[Johnouthouse]

Todd Rogers here! I want to personally Thank each and every participant for your attendance and support! Tim and I are at a crossroads so to speak. Business has been extremely slow for the past six months. My son Nicholas is 14 and lives in Arizona with his mom he needs and deserves so much more than I am able to provide for him at this time. I had a major car accident in 2004 a red light runner ran a red light and totaled my car almost killing me! In Dec 2007 I experienced severe pain in my left hip for three days before my best friend forced me to go to the E.R. on the 18th Dec. I was admitted spent the next several days including Christmas Day in the hospital (the most lonely day I experienced in my life)!!! Hip Surgery on the 27th of Dec then spent the next 6 weeks in a care center recuperating. I had a couple of visitors. The ones that stand out the most are two Mexican Immigrant Families at the Time the only people in my life that seamed to care enough to visit me in a time of so much need. Not once but several times they visited; can you even imagine? Right before that I had just bought a home in Phoenix and during the day had been robbed while at work one day losing over $8000.00 worth of tools and other valuables with no recovery on that. After all that I had been through I ended up losing my home to forclosure and my ability to provide for my son putting me in this position I am in now; Deadbeat dad; What a loser I am lost everything but continue on regardless of it all. I wonder often why I even try! It is only for him my dear son that deserves so much more from me that I cannot figure out how to provide anymore. I apologize but this burden is so heavy!!!

edited by staff

 

[BetsyOK]

It was good to meet you and your brother and to see your really well-bult chicken pens and other items. You're in our thoughts and prayers.