South Carolina

[WestKnollAmy]

Hope to see you there!
A lot of us can be found by the name of our farm on our shirts. Robert (KrisH's husband) has made BYC name tags before and we put our screen name on it but you can always find me because I wear a West Knoll Farm shirt. Well, that and I am the one usually running my mouth like the Indy 500.

 

[longlegz86]

Hope to see you there!
A lot of us can be found by the name of our farm on our shirts. Robert (KrisH's husband) has made BYC name tags before and we put our screen name on it but you can always find me because I wear a West Knoll Farm shirt. Well, that and I am the one usually running my mouth like the Indy 500.

Ive never been to one before so I dont really know what to expect... What all goes on?

 

[KrisH]

Ive never been to one before so I dont really know what to expect... What all goes on?

Would you believe the chickens put on little funny skits kind of like Saturday Night Live?

we just went to our first in Morganton, NC

Lots of chickens strutting their stuff in cages. Standing there letting us watch and look them over.

RobertH

 

[pinkwindsong]

so morgantom was a success? wish I could have gone. next year..

Im already looking forward to the spring chickenstock in Lincolnton nc.. I need to replace some blue jersy giant hens, and barred rocks.. more EEs and Id love to have more lavendar wayndott hens.. show girls and white silkies and two pair of partage sikies..

m y list is long.. haha maybe santa will be good to me.. haha..

Pink

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Well, they have raffles and silent auctions sometimes. Buy tickets for the raffle and put them in the bags of the item you want. Or the silent auction you write in your price if it is higher than the one above your name and what you are willing to pay.

Most of the birds are put in their cages with the breed and gender and color variety so as you walk down the aisles of cages inside the building you can see many different breeds and colors of birds you may want and yearn for! Judging usually starts at 9 and runs through to about 2 pm, depending on number of entries. Best In Show will be picked last but a lot of exhibitors leave if their bird doesn't place. They get a jump on their evening chores. Some stick around to chat and congratulate the winners.
There should be a paper as you go in that shows a number beside an exhibitors name or a farm name. That number will be on the cage card, too. Sometimes you are lucky enough to over hear some great people talking about colors or type on the birds and can ask some quick questions about the birds.
Parking is usually free at the smaller shows. It is free to go in and look at the birds.
Exhibitors and breeders often have birds for sale out in the parking lot. Cages upon cages of birds in all shapes, colors, sizes and ages are often there.

After a judge goes down an aisle you can go back to see which in that breed won BV (Best Variety) or BB (Best of Breed) and see if it was your favorite in all of them. All the ones that win BB will go up against each other to see who gets BIS (Best In Show).

There are probably others here that can tell you more but I am off to eat supper and take my shower so I can hit the hay. When you rise with the birds, you have to bunk down when they do.
(Oh, gosh, I think I just gave Robert some ammunition!)

 

[Southern Bee Lady]

I took some pics today of my new breeder pen, new splash silkies, and a few others but of course BYC is being it's normal pain in the ???? about loading photos. Sometimes it works and sometimes it don't. I will try again tomorrow.

 

[longlegz86]

Well it sounds like it would be something fun to go to!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Mary Bell, I was hoping to see those pix! Maybe today it will let you. If not, we can always see them on FB. So many people have gone there since BYC wants to be a pain. Though I know it isn't quite the same.

 

[Southern Bee Lady]

I will try to post again today. I like to trademark some pics before I put them on facebook. I should do that for BYC too since I have had ones that I posted on BYC show up on google search.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I am with you on that. I try to put watermarks on mine but so far I haven't figured out my program well enough to get it to look right.