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[mjgigax]

I lost the little roo with the broken (?) leg and his little pullet friend today.

This heat is really frightening!

 

[artsyrobin]

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I think that is a fungal infection. Something like favus, maybe?

looking that up now.... hmmmmm...fungus huh?

 

[sshavney]

Lost my sweet Buffy today

This heat has got to stop

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Whats the round thing on top Kass?

 

[Amy Farah Fowler]

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We show OE Bantams. sebrights, and Wyandottes. the bantams are easier to deal with teh big birds take two days to fully dry and fluff back up. the Big cochins about 3 days and can be a real hassle but we have done well with them in the past. Is the county fair the only show you intend to go to or do you have other goals as well?

Here's my deal. I'm a displaced farm gal. When my boys were growing up, we showed alot of cattle for lots of years. My middle son dabbled in showing some of his chickens at our county show, but that's not a "real" show. lol When my youngest was in FFA, they started the broiler show at the Tulsa State Fair and some cattle friends of ours from TX told us if we wanted to pay for our cattle, to show chickens... so we did. My son won the broiler show twice before he graduated and until recently held the record for highest pen of broilers. He took lots of ribbing from his friends and got called "chicken boy" alot. They even got him a chicken crossing sign for his bedroom door, but he's the one that got to laugh all the way to the bank.

I realize showing broilers is a whole different world than showing breeding chickens, but I just wanted to share the story.
Anyway, to get back to the subject.... I plan on helping my granddaughters show, be it chickens, cattle or anything else they want to show. The oldest is too young to be in 4-H yet, but she loves her chickens and I figure if we're going to have chickens, they just as well be good ones. She could start her own flock and by the time she's in 4-H she could kick some butt with chickens she raised herself. This year I only have my eye on the county show, but I plan on helping her go all the way to the state shows in the future. I'll be honest, I have LOTS to learn about being competative in the chicken world. So far I can pick the 3 biggest breasted birds and give them a bath the night before the show, lol. I do understand the importance of selective breeding and not everything you raise belongs in the breeding pen, so that's a start I guess.
So I guess that's my goals in a great big ole nutshell. (More like a campershell) lol

I'd like to ask if certain breeds of chickens are more likely to win overall champions than others? I know in the cattle world it's certainly that way, and I've heard it can be that way in the dog show world... so what's the winningest breeds?

 

[old*cowboy]

We got some rain.

 

[Amy Farah Fowler]

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I haven't shown yet, but will soon if the show in pryor gets put on.

My show fowl are d'uccle, malay, cubalaya, bantam asil, and bantam shamo.

Ohhhh, those sound very exotic. Obviously I need to go brush up on my chicken breeds. I hope you get to show soon. Let me know how you do.
Good luck!!

 

[dgibson]

Guy i tried agin did you get it

 

[old*cowboy]

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We show OE Bantams. sebrights, and Wyandottes. the bantams are easier to deal with teh big birds take two days to fully dry and fluff back up. the Big cochins about 3 days and can be a real hassle but we have done well with them in the past. Is the county fair the only show you intend to go to or do you have other goals as well?

I'd like to ask if certain breeds of chickens are more likely to win overall champions than others? I know in the cattle world it's certainly that way, and I've heard it can be that way in the dog show world... so what's the winningest breeds?

Thats where knowing who is judging comes into play. All things being equal there should be no preferance. But some judges prefer this breed to that. I think at the 4-H fair level it has more to do with conditioning then breed. I know when I judged years back I would see a real nice bird that had potential only to be turned off by dirt, pooh, bugs. The simple stuff goes along way on champion row. You have a great bird that bounces off the back wall of his cage when you go to pick him up, he aint going to do as well as maybe a lesser bird that shows and handles great. As for breed, pick the breed that fits your child and that they enjoy. Then prepair prepair prepair.

 

[old*cowboy]

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Yes I got it, thanks very much