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

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I would also like to know.
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Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex :

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You need to talk to Silkiechicken! She loves Roos.....in her belly!
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If you dot mind what happens to em she'll gladly take em!

LOL well, I happen to find them pretty tasty myself! Plus there's all those lovely feathers...
I plan to bring only the boys that I feel truly deserve a second chance. I will keep my favorite of each breed (speckled sussx, buff orp, and aloha) and I plan to eat the others (mutts, if they hatch, included) but you know how it goes... some of them are charmers and if I find a young roo I really can't bring myself to eat, I will see if I can find him a new home. I am worried that I may be bringing several Alohas because they are SO pretty I don't know how I will ever choose just ONE. (For anyone who doesn't know what an Aloha is, check out the pics of their parents http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c181/sommerp/Aloha Pens April 2011/ and believe me that they are even lovlier in person!)

It's good to know that the pullets will be easy to rehome. What would ya'll recommend selling them for? Its a LONG drive to have a car full of chickens, so if the extra girls can help with gas costs it would be great. Of course I love trading too, but I want to have a price in mind if anyone asks.

Oh, and if you want to see pics of some of my past extra roos in their current form, here they are!
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And this one is hen feathers that match the silver penciled wyandotte I plan to rehome:
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I am really serious about wanting feathers. If any of you have roos you plan to freezer camp before the swap I will buy/trade for feathers!​

OMG That's so up my alley! Can we have a craft party? I would love to learn how to make one. We have fancy dress parties in Ptown sometimes and I could totally make these for DH and I!
 
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LOL well, I happen to find them pretty tasty myself! Plus there's all those lovely feathers...
I plan to bring only the boys that I feel truly deserve a second chance. I will keep my favorite of each breed (speckled sussx, buff orp, and aloha) and I plan to eat the others (mutts, if they hatch, included) but you know how it goes... some of them are charmers and if I find a young roo I really can't bring myself to eat, I will see if I can find him a new home. I am worried that I may be bringing several Alohas because they are SO pretty I don't know how I will ever choose just ONE. (For anyone who doesn't know what an Aloha is, check out the pics of their parents http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c181/sommerp/Aloha Pens April 2011/ and believe me that they are even lovlier in person!)

It's good to know that the pullets will be easy to rehome. What would ya'll recommend selling them for? Its a LONG drive to have a car full of chickens, so if the extra girls can help with gas costs it would be great. Of course I love trading too, but I want to have a price in mind if anyone asks.

Oh, and if you want to see pics of some of my past extra roos in their current form, here they are!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/29884_im003602.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/29884_mexico_etc_002.jpg
And this one is hen feathers that match the silver penciled wyandotte I plan to rehome:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/29884_im003597.jpg
I am really serious about wanting feathers. If any of you have roos you plan to freezer camp before the swap I will buy/trade for feathers!

OMG That's so up my alley! Can we have a craft party? I would love to learn how to make one. We have fancy dress parties in Ptown sometimes and I could totally make these for DH and I!

Hmm...perhaps an activity for the "Great Slumber Party of 2011"???
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OMG That's so up my alley! Can we have a craft party? I would love to learn how to make one. We have fancy dress parties in Ptown sometimes and I could totally make these for DH and I!

Hmm...perhaps an activity for the "Great Slumber Party of 2011"???
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YEAH!!!! Totally! Making masks around the campfire whilst drinking wine and homebrew?!?!?!? I think that would rock!
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YEAH!!!! Totally! Making masks around the campfire whilst drinking wine and homebrew?!?!?!? I think that would rock!
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LOL Some of those masks would turn out pretty interesting, with a few drinks in us!!
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Let's do a quilt block swap at the chicken swap!

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Here's how it works:

Each person will make as many blocks as we have people sign up (unless only a few of us sign up, then we can make 2 or 3 to give per person).
PM me for the pattern and instructions on-line. This block is 7x8 inches as shown and will end up 6.5x7.5 inches when sewn into a quilt. All seam allowances are 1/4".
Let's say we'll make black/grey hens with a white background. You can take artistic license with the comb.

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Any way you save the feathers is fine by me as long as they don't mold. Frozen pelts could work. I can thaw and preserve them easily... but the travel might be a challenge...I am 4 hours from the swap so I will be overnighting with family in the area.

I have saved feathers that were scalded and plucked which I dried by leaving them in large moving boxes in the sun and stirring them every few hours (the barred rock and the gold laced masks) picked up feathers after moults (the columbian, silver laced, and silver penciled masks) and, most recently, I have saved feathers by skinning and keeping the pelt. I just lay it flat, feather side down, on a garbage bag in the garage and sprinkle with borax or rock salt. The borax is better, but either works well enough. After a few days I flip it over (to keep the feathers from flattening) and then just leave it for a few weeks. I have yet to make masks from my pelts (I have a partridge cochin, a blue laced red wyandotte, and a barred rock) but I might make some for the swap.

And I would be happy to give mask making lessons. I must say, though, that you have to be a patient, detail oriented person. It is tedious work, but I think having a pelt instead of a bag of feathers will help. The hardest part was always finding and organizing the right sized feathers... but the pelt eliminates that step. I am also planning to upgrade my mask bases from paper mache to some fancy heat moulded plasitc stuff that will make them water proof. They only sell it in 4' sheets and they're like $60 each so I have yet to make the investment, but I will as soon as I get organized enough to make some masks.

I might also be interested in the quilt block swap... I will have to see as we get closer. I am currently remodeling to turn my garage into a sewing/craft room and everything is in chaos right now. But we shall see....
 
Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex :

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Any way you save the feathers is fine by me as long as they don't mold. Frozen pelts could work. I can thaw and preserve them easily... but the travel might be a challenge...I am 4 hours from the swap so I will be overnighting with family in the area.



I might also be interested in the quilt block swap... I will have to see as we get closer. I am currently remodeling to turn my garage into a sewing/craft room and everything is in chaos right now. But we shall see....

Hi,
Love your masks!
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Would love the chance to learn how and would also be interested in the quilt swap. I'm new
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(really new) in quilting. I'm actually trying to teach myself. I do live far. (Vancouver, WA) But willing to meet, travel, or whatever; to give it a try! I have done masks in the past. Mostly paper mache with paints and crafting supplies, never with feathers. So if you get a group going, (masks or/and quilts) count me in.
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I'm not sure we have met, but my name is Paula.
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No kids (except the furry, feathered, or the fish kind), no job, (should be cleaning the house, but who likes to do that
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) but I do have a car, a computer and lots of time!
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(Oh, I do have a hubby, but I think I have finally got him grown enough to leave him alone for a few hours at a time!
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Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex :

And I would be happy to give mask making lessons. I must say, though, that you have to be a patient, detail oriented person. It is tedious work, but I think having a pelt instead of a bag of feathers will help. The hardest part was always finding and organizing the right sized feathers... but the pelt eliminates that step. I am also planning to upgrade my mask bases from paper mache to some fancy heat moulded plasitc stuff that will make them water proof. They only sell it in 4' sheets and they're like $60 each so I have yet to make the investment, but I will as soon as I get organized enough to make some masks

I'm totally in. I do a ton of henna and paint ceramics when I can. I LOVE super OCD detailed things. completely up my alley!​
 
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I'd love to, but I don't have the patience for quilting. I did it once, and made myself nuts!
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eta: ok, MORE nuts than usual...
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