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I wish I had something to show.
I've never shown chickens; I started traveling to some shows last year looking for brood stock, though I'm happy to say an Ameraucana roo I purchased before the classes were judged won later.
My current Ameraucanas come from a good source, but are too young to show. I'm actually not a great fan of showing, they're judged by looks and feel alone with no consideration of any other qualities any particular breed may be noted for.......................... but they usually are far better birds [closer in appearance to what they're supposed to be] than what I find elsewhere. If there's nothing for sale there, I at least have the opportunity to talk to their breeders about possibly getting stock from them later.
It costs me as much or more to feed and house a poor quality bird as it does a good one, and feed and housing will be the biggest expence; and if I want quality, its going to be very expencive trying to develope it from a flock of mediocore birds. Spending a little more $ for a bird from a breeder may be the cheapest way to go, even for a poor man like myself wanting to crossbreed them. If I only wanted egg layers, I'd be happy with hatchery sourced birds; their birds are usually down sized from the breed they're supposed to be, often better layers, and cheaper to keep because of their smaller size...................... but if going that route I would just buy their commercial laying crosses or EE instead.
Because I consider the sanctioned shows a good place to find higher quality birds, I hope to get to Crossroads this fall; it should be the biggest competion in the nation this year.
Yes it will deffinately be, I am hoping to head down to the state fair for a day, all the birds I was planning to show were taken by preds this year. I hope that there will be some good birds there even though its not sanctioned, for some unknown reason to me.
I wish I had something to show.
It costs me as much or more to feed and house a poor quality bird as it does a good one, and feed and housing will be the biggest expence; and if I want quality, its going to be very expencive trying to develope it from a flock of mediocore birds. Spending a little more $ for a bird from a breeder may be the cheapest way to go, even for a poor man like myself wanting to crossbreed them. If I only wanted egg layers, I'd be happy with hatchery sourced birds; their birds are usually down sized from the breed they're supposed to be, often better layers, and cheaper to keep because of their smaller size...................... but if going that route I would just buy their commercial laying crosses or EE instead.
Because I consider the sanctioned shows a good place to find higher quality birds, I hope to get to Crossroads this fall; it should be the biggest competion in the nation this year.
Yes it will deffinately be, I am hoping to head down to the state fair for a day, all the birds I was planning to show were taken by preds this year. I hope that there will be some good birds there even though its not sanctioned, for some unknown reason to me.
