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

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Thanks again for the trio of millies! They did great on the ride home and have been put to bed for the night with some treats. Happy chickies! All is put away, now for an adult beverage and the hot tub......

Hope ya tucked the freon bird in nice and cozy too !!!
 
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Thank you Alexis for the beautiful story! So the black pullet is a direct decendent of the rooster in the story? Anyway, the other two chicks were matching. They are shorter with fluffy legs, and colored black and white? They are sleeping and I can't completely remember their color, but they were two contrasting colors.
 
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Thanks again for the trio of millies! They did great on the ride home and have been put to bed for the night with some treats. Happy chickies! All is put away, now for an adult beverage and the hot tub......

Im so glad. No joke on the adult beverage. I stopped on the way home and grabbed cupcakes from a cute little bakery down there (sweet carbs are my weakness 2nd to chickens) and didnt get home till after 7. The frizzle along with the other 3 birds we got jumped into the coop ate and drank a little and headed to bed. Please let me know how they do tomorrow.
 
Wow what a fabulous swap today. We didn't set-up a booth and sell pullets like we normally do but did sell a red bourbon turkey and a b/w ameracauna hen. Brought home an orp chick, stunning pair of gold laced Polish, couple scrubbies, soap and the ever scrumptious Cheesecake!! Thanks everyone for a great time and dh and I are already making plans to attend the spring swap with lots of pullets (Ameracaunas too
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Thank you Alexis for the beautiful story! So the black pullet is a direct decendent of the rooster in the story? Anyway, the other two chicks were matching. They are shorter with fluffy legs, and colored black and white? They are sleeping and I can't completely remember their color, but they were two contrasting colors.

Oh! Those would be from my cochins! They will be super sweet birds. They were hatched here from my bantam pen, and while a few were all cochin, the Sultan ended up being the surprise Dad to a couple because I noticed extra toes. If yours don't have extra toes, and the feet are more yellow, then they are cochin. The third, probably noticeable larger one, is descended from the rescued rooster. Enjoy them!
 
I had a great day at the swap
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It's the first one I've been to and I am definitely going back! I came home with 5 insanely adorable chicks; 2 blue/splash orpingtons and 3 d'Uccles, 2 millie fleur and an adorable porcelain.
Thank you everyone who worked so hard to make the swap happen
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I feel like a truck hit me
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Maybe that is why I tripped over the mop bucket and spilled water everywhere
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I had a GREAT day! It was so awesome to see old friends, make new ones and witness how Benton County embraced our event!
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I kept hearing all day "I think we need a bigger building". LOL I think you may be right. I was freaking out a bit when more people kept showing up and we were out of tables but thanks to Alexis' plan, it went smoothly. Jeanine rocked the raffle table...and between her and Alexis "cleaned up" quite nicely
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On a serious note though, I think it went well....very well. The set up went quickly and fairly efficiently...the same with the clean up (thank you to everyone who helped!) We had nonstop foot traffic for couple hours there and I saw tons of people carrying chickens out the doors all day long. Thank you to everyone who participated, thank you to our businesses who had just as much fun and to Alexis and Jeanine...I love you guys and couldn't have done this without either of you!!!

Ok Jeanine...let's get the Spring Swap thread started
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What a terrific swap! You guys did such a good job putting this one together! I am already looking forward to another one in the Spring.
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I met so many nice people today, and had so much fun talking chickens with you all. I came home with about a third of the birds I took....so that feels like a great swap to me. And I found out that my buff laced polish rooster (Rasta) is super social and people friendly. I knew he was easy to handle at home, but was pleasantly surprised by how well he took to meeting all the new people. He even let a few babies grab his crest feathers.
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(Not too hard though) I love the cool wire chicken basket I won, and especially the great soaps inside (Thanks K7:) ) I only brought home one new chicken this time....although I was really tempted by all the wonderful silkies! The little sultan girl I brought home is settled in nicely at the moment. She has been very calm and I love her little face. All in all it was a great day. Thanks to all of you great ladies who worked so hard to put this together for us all.
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Post-swap update on the WEBSITE - and even a link to a few snapshots of the day. You can pretend you were there if you weren't, or you can see what you missed if you were too busy to wander
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Send me your album links if you want me to post them!

Does anyone else have a pulse but feel like they're dead?
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