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[SmartChicken123]

What is the diffremce between chickens and broilers??

 

[Kiki]

I was reading too that you have to order your chicken through them.

My older kids didn't show bird and my youngest is a little too young still to show but I have been doing some research for the youngest so that when it is time for him to show at a fair I will know how things work.

Here in our county...Harris...the fairs are the same way...you have to order your bird at a specific time and for a certain place.

I am sure there are other "shows" that allow your to bring your own special bird but I haven't found one yet.

 

[Kiki]

What is the diffremce between chickens and broilers??

A broiler is a certain type of chicken...raised for meat.

 

[Kiki]

use the link i sent..
look through the photo gallery of the birds that were entered in last years fair...you will see.

 

[Kiki]

check this out:

http://www.poultryshowcentral.com/Texas.html

Here is a list of upcoming poultry shows in Texas...see if one is close to you and if you are able to enter your chickens in it.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I was reading too that you have to order your chicken through them.

My older kids didn't show bird and my youngest is a little too young still to show but I have been doing some research for the youngest so that when it is time for him to show at a fair I will know how things work.

Here in our county...Harris...the fairs are the same way...you have to order your bird at a specific time and for a certain place.

I am sure there are other "shows" that allow your to bring your own special bird but I haven't found one yet.

That's so weird and seems unfair! Though maybe its to help level the playing field between the entrants, since someone who has a family that is more well off might be able to afford a top of the line bird from a breeder while a less well off kid might only be able to get a feedstore hatchery bird.

 

[Kiki]

That's so weird and seems unfair! Though maybe its to help level the playing field between the entrants, since someone who has a family that is more well off might be able to afford a top of the line bird from a breeder while a less well off kid might only be able to get a feedstore hatchery bird.

I thought the same thing when I first started researching the 4H and FFA programs here.
But that is how it is.
I see people talking about shows all the time, from other states, and it seems they have all types of breeds at these other shows.
I have never seen one or heard of one in my area.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I live in a very small county and our show had a whole variety of birds, from your production types to ornamentals like d'Uccles, and someone even entered a guinea which of course won it's "category" lol. I don't recall seeing any broiler/meat breeds, just some dual purpose, and really nothing was high quality but it was still neat to see the birds and I know the kids were proud and happy.

 

[SmartChicken123]

So if I were to show broiler s would I raise them like chickens??

 

[SunHwaKwon]

LOL broilers are chickens. Its just a classification. Generally birds are known to be layers (bred for eggs), broilers (bred for meat), dual-purpose (pretty decent for eggs and meat but not the best at either), or ornamental (great to look at but don't expect a lot of eggs or a hearty chicken dinner from them).

From the rule book:

1. Eligibility All broilers must be ordered through your Agriculture Science Teacher or County Extension Agent. Broilers will be from the same source and same age. All broiler chicks will be wing banded at hatch for identification purposes. Exhibitors may show only the birds with the band numbers issued to them. All broilers will be checked for bands at the sift (arrival). Entries with missing or incorrect bands will be disqualified. Only broilers raised in the same family pen will have the same band numbers. No extra broilers may be brought into the show barn at the time of sifting or judging.

I would talk to your ag science teacher and/or county extension agent about obtaining the bird.

To answer your question, generally speaking they are raised the same, the exception being if they are cornish crosses (which go from hatch to butcher in something like 10 weeks) but I doubt they are.