Relief!

[TK Poultry]

omgosh you dont do anything with them that is sooo weird i have to do everything no matter where i go!!! i like it better that way anyway but you have secruity guards at our county fair the "barn" is a lean too and we take turns watching it until midnight and if you dont feed your birds they dont eat but as a curtisy we water each others! but omgoodness nothing to do the whole time

 

[horsejody]

The fairs with "birds are only fed by one attendant" rule do that to help the security guards. That way they only have to recognize one or two people. If there are 200 owners in there taking care of the birds, they have no way of knowing if you are the owner or some jerk that just like to mess with or steal somebody else's stuff. It's a shame that it has to be that way, but that is what the world has come to.

 

[TK Poultry]

i had never heard that before!!! you learn something everyday!

 

[call ducks]

at 4-H pro show me and a nother person make shure all the other brids have water but we don't open the cage but other then that we don't bother them ( other then to admire them and drool over them

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[barred-rocks-rock]

I won !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[horsejody]

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[Chris09]

Wow that is a lot different from the way our county fair does it..
Now it has been some time since my wife and I where in 4-H but the same rules hold true to day..
If you are in 4-H and take chickens and or turkeys and show them in a 4-H class you must clean the pen every day, feed at least twice a day and water as needed. Only the person that is showing and the birds are entered under are permitted to clean the cage and do the feeding...
The fair provides shavings for the bedding and the feed (if you wish to use there feed)..
Most schools around here don't start till after the county fair and the schools that do start before the fair give a excused absents to the kids the show at the fair..


Chris

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Same here. They just this year started an open class for everyone to enter. I guess everyone assumed their birds would be taken care of because some birds were not fed for 3 days.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

The Az State Fair is a sanctioned ABA & APA show, birds are brought in on Tuesday and stay until the following Monday. The fair staff feed and water the birds, although you may choose to feed and water your own--if you aren't there frequently, there is a chance that you will be challenged by the staff, and it would be up to the superintendent to determine whether there is an issue. There is a youth competition, but it is not specifically 4H; there are generally far more birds in open, and they tend to be better quality.

 

[horsejody]

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Maybe it's not 4H. Maybe it's not the county fair. Maybe it's open classes at the state fair.