***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Firefly89]

Banjo I sent you a message. Do you have any extra Cochin eggs around?

 

[muesky]

Hi Everybody!!!

Well the show was a blast this year. Got to spend two days hanging out with a bunch of awesome people and fabulous feathered folk.

It was so wonderful to is visit with everyone. Saw Carla and Gerald for the first time in what seems forever. Actually Carla was the one who hooked me up to BYC, we meet through ebay, if you can believe that.

Thanks ever so much Carla. Yesterday was so much fun getting to see and meet so many people. Today I mainly spent time with Betsy, Don and Al but it was still a lot of fun. Congratulations to all our BYCers who were showing birds and placed.

My hats off to you all, I know you all worked really hard getting your birds ready for the show. Yeah you!!!!

So my Shawnee show acquisitions this year consisted of two beautiful LF cochin hens and a silver laced LF cochin roo from Ksane, two splash ameraucana hens, one black ameraucana roo and one blue ameraucana roo from Poco, and lastly two white LF cochin hens and two black LF cochin hens from Bo Garrett. Thank you, thank you, thank you all for the wonderful birds, they are greatly appreciated.

Now I need to start getting the genetic charts and breeding schedule ready. Only have 3 months to get ready

Guess there will not be any auctions until January except maybe the Maud auction, which I am hoping to go to week after next since I am off work for winter break.

Of course I maybe heading to San Antonio to pick up my DD, which I would rather do any day then go to an auction.

You know, no matter how long they have been out of the egg

they still are our little ones. Even when they're 5" taller then you and think they know it all.

Hope everyone has a great week. Winter holidays are fast approaching.

 

[upcdayz]

I'm whooped today. Going to hang out at the house and do nothing, hopefully. Maybe even get a nap in. With the cool, damp weather we're having, it's a perfect day for that.

Enjoyed the show in Shawnee yesterday, the lunch and visiting with and meeting BYCers. There were tons of pretty birds there. If I had a quarantine pen ready, I would have bought some of the sale birds. Those who had birds in the show - I'd love to know hear how you did.

 

[banjoejoe4783]

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so sorry i should have answerd sorry i will send you a PM

 

[Poco Pollo]

Smells like my early morning, de-skunktifying activities yesterday were successful. Vesta has only a slight oder-de-pew, mostly around her ears and collar, so I'm going to let nature do the rest of the cleansing. Both her eyes are clear, which was my main concern when I first found that she had been skunk sprayed. The silly girl took it straight in the face, probably because she was running at the stink bomb when the explosion happened. I've swabbed out her nostrils with creamy vaseline a few times, so I'm sure she's no longer inhaling any musk. The last time I was skunked, as a teen, the musk gave me an unbearable headache. The headache got so bad I had to go to the local outpatient clinic, and doctor on duty that weekend was most helpful. He gave my parents the recipe for a de-skunking bath (baking soda and hydrogen peroxide), and he swabbed out my nostrils with creamy vaseline; within an hour my headache was gone. Creamy vaseline is milk-white, comes in a tube, and smells like lotion.

Hope everyone who went to the show has had a chance to nap today. After lunch I treated myself to an hour of TV, which turned into an unscheduled, two-hour nap.

 

[mjgigax]

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I might just have to actually buy a bird that isn't a Cochin! I took bunches of pics of them too.

 

[mjgigax]

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Those are perfect likenessess

I agree, so cool! Did it take you a long time to find each match?

 

[nnbreeder]

Here is a couple of shots of one of Al's birds. He had two that did well.

 

[mjgigax]

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I want to go to Maud too, this week and next (if they have one on the 22nd).

 

[nnbreeder]

Here are a couple of the bantam NNs that Ed Hayworth brought. The hen is descended from the stock of Mr. Bernard Kellogg which originally imported them from Germany way back when. They were bred down from LF with no bantam outcrosses along the way.