Oregon

[elizmartin]

I had dozens that required no babying... ugly, near crestless, mottled colored birds who ran with the production birds.. but I don't know if you could get any further from standard to even call them silkies. LOL. They were fury and sold as "black meat chickens" just as well as they would have if they conformed to a standard. haha. Sorry couldn't help it. I have found the "show" type silkies are really feather brained and kind of just stand there... so fragile!

On the point about county fairs needing people to show, it was pretty sad at the evergreen state fair this year. I think I saw the open class half of the show? I went near the end and I only saw about 6 different exhibitors names. One exhibitor made up over half the birds... and they were mixes, production type hatchery birds, missing feathers, not really in any show condition, and one even had a massive ear infection you could easily see. I'd almost venture to guess that they didn't have enough birds so someone literally packed up and showed their entire yard bird flock. There was a stark contrast between that exhibitors stock and the few exhibitors who showed actual show birds in good condition and of one or two varieties.

I can see how it's important to fill spots at the fair, but also see how people who are "serious" about it may hesitate to bring their birds to a place where less than ideal birds are housed just a cage or two away. I'm in no place to complain because I have never participated myself, but am considering getting more involved once I have graduated.

Hi All, when my daughter was in 4-H i (goats) i used to love to visit the livestock areas at all the fairs. Both youth and open....I visited at King Co.fair this year which used to have lots of livestock but only has a sad representation of 4-H/FFA. No open classes....They had one Dexter cow, miniature horse that a friend brought to exhibit, 2 pigs, 5 sheep from the same farm a small double row of chickens and a good group of llamas and alpacas and goats and reasonable numbers of cats and dogs....no signs to let anyone know they were there. The fair lost its original dates to another group when the county couldn't make up its mind if it was even going to have the fair this year.....and competed with Seafair for the dates they had.....terrible attendance. I think the higher ups forget that agriculture and livestock are building blocks to our food system and deserve being showcased and given greater importance.....eliz

 

[laurelwill4]

I'm in Corvallis!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

I'm in Corvallis!

You're right in the backyard of the fall poultry swap then, do you know about it? Are you coming? It's SUPER fun!!!

 

[bigboy70]

So chicks are in there coop and run and they love it but the seven yr old hen does not and is going after them they've been together a few days now are there juss establishing the pecking order

 

[Chicken Rustler]

So chicks are in there coop and run and they love it but the seven yr old hen does not and is going after them they've been together a few days now are there juss establishing the pecking order

What's the age of the "chicks"

 

[bigboy70]

I wanted to share a story with y'all so here my girlfriend and I are at our local wilco to get our girls some scratch and in the chicken isle I over heard a lady say which one of these breeds lay the biggest brown eggs and I was thinking I'll b nice go over say excuse me ma am I over heard you and it would b the golden sex links and grab the breed chart and showed her and then next thing you know I was explaining the laying patterns change with the seasons and at this point another lady was asking me more questions so my girlfriend continued talking to lady number 1 and I started talking to this other lady.....lady number 2 she was asking about coop designs and such as I'm talking to lady 2 a guy walks up and say I got a question figured since you got a cowboy hat on you gotta know something and had to explain the brooding process and feed and such well hopefully we will have three new members tonight so a ten min trip turbbinto a 40 min lecture you don't realize how much you know about something until ppl start asking lol

 

[bigboy70]

What's the age of the "chicks" 

They are about a month and a week old

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

I wanted to share a story with y'all so here my girlfriend and I are at our local wilco to get our girls some scratch and in the chicken isle I over heard a lady say which one of these breeds lay the biggest brown eggs and I was thinking I'll b nice go over say excuse me ma am I over heard you and it would b the golden sex links and grab the breed chart and showed her and then next thing you know I was explaining the laying patterns change with the seasons and at this point another lady was asking me more questions so my girlfriend continued talking to lady number 1 and I started talking to this other lady.....lady number 2 she was asking about coop designs and such as I'm talking to lady 2 a guy walks up and say I got a question figured since you got a cowboy hat on you gotta know something and had to explain the brooding process and feed and such well hopefully we will have three new members tonight so a ten min trip turbbinto a 40 min lecture you don't realize how much you know about something until ppl start asking lol

That's awesome!

 

[BrendaJ]

I wanted to share a story with y'all so here my girlfriend and I are at our local wilco to get our girls some scratch and in the chicken isle I over heard a lady say which one of these breeds lay the biggest brown eggs and I was thinking I'll b nice go over say excuse me ma am I over heard you and it would b the golden sex links and grab the breed chart and showed her and then next thing you know I was explaining the laying patterns change with the seasons and at this point another lady was asking me more questions so my girlfriend continued talking to lady number 1 and I started talking to this other lady.....lady number 2 she was asking about coop designs and such as I'm talking to lady 2 a guy walks up and say I got a question figured since you got a cowboy hat on you gotta know something and had to explain the brooding process and feed and such well hopefully we will have three new members tonight so a ten min trip turbbinto a 40 min lecture you don't realize how much you know about something until ppl start asking lol

Hope Wilco payed you for your time lol

 

[Suzierd]

I wanted to share a story with y'all so here my girlfriend and I are at our local wilco to get our girls some scratch and in the chicken isle I over heard a lady say which one of these breeds lay the biggest brown eggs and I was thinking I'll b nice go over say excuse me ma am I over heard you and it would b the golden sex links and grab the breed chart and showed her and then next thing you know I was explaining the laying patterns change with the seasons and at this point another lady was asking me more questions so my girlfriend continued talking to lady number 1 and I started talking to this other lady.....lady number 2 she was asking about coop designs and such as I'm talking to lady 2 a guy walks up and say I got a question figured since you got a cowboy hat on you gotta know something and had to explain the brooding process and feed and such well hopefully we will have three new members tonight so a ten min trip turbbinto a 40 min lecture you don't realize how much you know about something until ppl start asking lol

Keep that up and Wilco will be offering you a job!