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It will be strictly show birds, not this weekend but next weekend. Saturday early will be your best time to visit the sales area. The show will be 1/2 the size it was last year the entries were aparently limited to 2500 but expanded to 2900. Much less than the 5000 last year. Unfortunately we will not be showing this year, it was full up by the time our entries got in, Someone else here reported the same thing.
if your going there to buy take a pocket full of $$ they will be good but not cheap.
Howdy Neighbor! Thanks for the info and date correction. Hopefully not buying, don't really want to add more chickens this time of year. How are your chickens coming? Have any cochins or wyandottes? Oh man, you wouldn't believe the size of our cochin from you...well yes you would...but we call him boots because he has the most feathers on his feet and legs I have ever seen. He was the little black chick we bought and I don't think he is full grown yet. Still haven't heard him crow, but he isn't laying eggs either, so I am pretty sure its a "he". I think he will be a giant when he is fully grown and a beauty! Whatever do you give your chickens to get them so big?
He will not be done growing until at least 18 months of age, they get very very big. It was all just solid breeding and selection. We sold all of our Large fowl and will only have bantams from this point forward, the big birds were just too much of chow hound and waiting for them to fully mature and reach thier full potential then test mating and selecting again at 2 years of age just got to be too much. My bantams I can pick through at 10 months and test mate and make final selections by 12 months of age. Saved me almost 400lbs of feed a week compared to this time last year.
It will be strictly show birds, not this weekend but next weekend. Saturday early will be your best time to visit the sales area. The show will be 1/2 the size it was last year the entries were aparently limited to 2500 but expanded to 2900. Much less than the 5000 last year. Unfortunately we will not be showing this year, it was full up by the time our entries got in, Someone else here reported the same thing.
if your going there to buy take a pocket full of $$ they will be good but not cheap.
Howdy Neighbor! Thanks for the info and date correction. Hopefully not buying, don't really want to add more chickens this time of year. How are your chickens coming? Have any cochins or wyandottes? Oh man, you wouldn't believe the size of our cochin from you...well yes you would...but we call him boots because he has the most feathers on his feet and legs I have ever seen. He was the little black chick we bought and I don't think he is full grown yet. Still haven't heard him crow, but he isn't laying eggs either, so I am pretty sure its a "he". I think he will be a giant when he is fully grown and a beauty! Whatever do you give your chickens to get them so big?
He will not be done growing until at least 18 months of age, they get very very big. It was all just solid breeding and selection. We sold all of our Large fowl and will only have bantams from this point forward, the big birds were just too much of chow hound and waiting for them to fully mature and reach thier full potential then test mating and selecting again at 2 years of age just got to be too much. My bantams I can pick through at 10 months and test mate and make final selections by 12 months of age. Saved me almost 400lbs of feed a week compared to this time last year.
Thanks!
