Oregon Fall Poultry Swap - October 22 - Corvallis @ the Fairgrounds!!!

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Good idea! Nothing wrong with having two swaps
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I'd like to see someone organize an Eastern Oregon one too since we try to keep this one up and down the Willamette Valley. The more the merrier!
 
Rhonda and I have been talking for a few months about doing one over here in Central/Eastern Oregon. I know Bend isn't the best location centrally, but we're thinking Bend would bring in more local potential buyers for everyone, as Bend is a hen-friendly town and lots of people here love having fresh eggs.

Hmmm..... I will make some phone calls this coming week, to see if there is anywhere we could host it with the room we'll need. I'm thinking the park by the hospital, where they have (or used to have?) the farmer's markets.
 
Awesome!! I like that idea a lot because I always feel bad that so many people over in Bend probably can't make the drive over and the ones that do come stuffed to the gills lol because it is their one shot to sell things. I'm pretty sure K7 was correct when she said she couldn't even fit in a piece of paper last night lol.

On a separate note, I'd love to get some ideas going early on in this thread (and keep them going) about ways to improve the current swap. I know the potluck thing didn't quite work this time. In the fall down in Drain, we had a covered picnic area and I think I was kind of thinking we'd have the same here, but we didn't so a lot of potluck items didn't get shared
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If we want to keep the potluck going (it started during the first swaps when only about 10 people would show up), we could maybe bring extra tables and possibly a tent to set up in a central area? Or, we can just do away with it all together. Start throwing out ideas as you have them!

And let's try and get some dates and the place finalized by May 1st if we can. If the fairgrounds is the place of choice in the end, I need to let them know as soon as possible because I have to coordinate with the poultry testing facility at OSU.
 
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I do think that the picnic area for folks to take all their potluck items to helped out a lot.

Maybe having some sort of set eating time, giving the booth owners a "time out" where we all sit down and eat and the crazy business of swapping and selling is kind of put on hold for a minute?

This is tiny, but we were a bit confused as to which direction to set up our table and everything. We had customers walking on all sides... If possible, it would be lovely to have two facing rows of the canopies and tables so that folks can walk between the tables, instead of one long row? Hmm... not sure if that's just being too picky
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I think as far as the tables, it kind of all depends on the situation/location. It was a bit difficult yesterday to really know. I suppse we could have spread more into the grass area instead of along the road, but... If it is as the fairgrounds, I will probably go for the parking lot so it will be a bit easier - we'd be able to set up "farmer's market style".

Time out would have been great, but I have no idea how or when I would have taken it lol. I didn't even get to go over to the restrooms till I was packing up!
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There were restrooms there? Lol....

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Yeah and I almost didn't make it to them!

Just to let you know Cindy, my girls gobbled up your soaps...I ended up with one of them out of the 4
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Gonna need to get more next time I think....

How are your girls?
 
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ZooMummzy

Bringing

Serama Hatching Eggs
Serama chicks - hatched by request only, straight run and prepaid - eggs (I will refund per egg cost for those that do not hatch since Seramas can be touchy), incubating, brooding and small food consumption for 1 month or less. All requests MUST be received by August 1.
Jam (hopefully)
Asian Pears (if it's a good harvest year)
Tomatoes, squash, whatever else I can collect from my plants and my neighbor's garden (she always has so much to share) by then
Cheesecakes - dessert and two new twists, savory (these will be smaller in size) and bars - list forthcoming for all


Want
Nothing breathing or food consuming - everything else is good!




Walltenters

Bringing

Dominiques, Orpingtons and Americaunas
- Hatching eggs... These will probably be fall breeding pens by then
- Chicks (I'll hatch them about a month before the swap, I hope, so will be nearly feathered out)
- Started Laying Pullets
- Meat Cockerels.. Eating birds, delicious, free range birds that will be great size for eating by fall swap time!
- Breeding Pullets - we will be hatching more eggs here soon, and should have several extra pullets of each breed to bring to the fall swap.
- Breeding Cockerels - we breed to standard and will have more cockerels than we need for our programs.

BY REQUEST!!!!
I will hatch out chicks of a breed of your choice. I'll try first to find local hatching eggs, but might ship them in if I can't find a breeder to meet me at one of the shows here in the Northwest. Will raise them at least a month before swap, but I have to know way ahead of time to make the connections. I only like to buy show quality/breeder quality eggs, and I prefer hatching American and heritage English birds, but wouldn't mind doing a few other breeds. Please no silkies! Prices will vary - cost of the eggs, age of the chicks by the swap, etc. I do keep track of all my expenses including electric for incubating and brooding, so I know what my bottom line is per day, varying a small amount with feed efficiency of the chicks.

Wanting

- Always want show/breeder quality hatching eggs, I love American and English breeds, heritage is always good
- Food to can/preserve! I will have a first year garden this year, so I'm looking for fruits/veggies to preserve - would like to buy in bulk!
- Might consider a nice B/B/S Orpington pullet or two, nice large show/breeder quality birds
- A nice Blue Americauna pullet with lines to compliment what Rhonda's got already... please email me - my inbox is super full!




chicknfishn

Bringing

Silkie chicks
Silkie pullets
hatching eggs
BCM roosters
started pullets
extra feeders/waterers

Want

Show/Breeder Quality Silkies - Pullets, Hens and Chicks PM me with what you have
BCM hatching eggs
Silkie hatching eggs
 

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