Southern NY, Dutchess county and below
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YAY lol not much comeptition.... And I got reserve of breed =]
Great to see everyone today! I wish I was able to hang out more, but I guess selling the raffle tickets is the first time member penence. I stuck around and helped a bit with cages, man, they do a lot of work to make these shows happen. The fairgrounds were pandamonium by the time I left because the rodeo sold out to standing room only. Yikes.
@Heather: Barbary Lions, also known as Atlas Lions. "In the 1950’s, Fred Space, Ralph’s son, developed and expanded the Native American species zoo, adding the zoo’s first exotic species, an Atlas African lion, in 1971." We should have a space farms day with the kids. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/new_lion_cub_born_in_sussex_co.html
@Caleb: Congrats on your first show and first ribbons!!!
@Heather: Barbary Lions, also known as Atlas Lions. "In the 1950’s, Fred Space, Ralph’s son, developed and expanded the Native American species zoo, adding the zoo’s first exotic species, an Atlas African lion, in 1971." We should have a space farms day with the kids. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/new_lion_cub_born_in_sussex_co.html
@Caleb: Congrats on your first show and first ribbons!!!
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Thanks! It was so cool finally meeting everyone =] I was thinking on the way home, I have my own chicks.... LOL So I dont need yours.... lol i just put my banty cochin in their with her =] So no need for one of your roos.... unless I convince my dad to give me hens =]
Hey Guys!
WOW, what a super fun day! I have literally been looking forward to this fair since Christine told me about it back in Feb, no joke. I was very impressed with how clean and well-run everything was, and it was so much fun seeing all the beautiful birds.
Even more fun though was meeting everyone. I think we are so lucky to have such a nice group to chat with on BYC and I hope we get to do another meet up at one of the fall shows. Maybe by then I will have talked John into letting me have some Belgian D'Uccle Millefleur bantams, hee her.
I have so many photos and videos I'm not sure where or what to do with them but I will post our group shot here. Caleb, thank your mom for taking it, and apologies to anyone that we missed in our shot.
So here it is -
Southern NY, Dutchess county and below Band (aka the Disciples of Chicken Head Al)
WOW, what a super fun day! I have literally been looking forward to this fair since Christine told me about it back in Feb, no joke. I was very impressed with how clean and well-run everything was, and it was so much fun seeing all the beautiful birds.
Even more fun though was meeting everyone. I think we are so lucky to have such a nice group to chat with on BYC and I hope we get to do another meet up at one of the fall shows. Maybe by then I will have talked John into letting me have some Belgian D'Uccle Millefleur bantams, hee her.
I have so many photos and videos I'm not sure where or what to do with them but I will post our group shot here. Caleb, thank your mom for taking it, and apologies to anyone that we missed in our shot.
So here it is -
Southern NY, Dutchess county and below Band (aka the Disciples of Chicken Head Al)
Oh and congratulations Caleb on your ribbon! Super neat! Did you end up selling the roo?
lol nobody wanted the roo... Lol got several offers on matilda (the hen)... My mom said anytime.....
Definitley going to the fall show... =] We should all meet up again then foshore....
Oh and and and thank you for telling me about the Tractor Supply Store on Rt-23 on the way home. I bought a 50lb bag of crushed oyster shells which should last me for three years, and I also had to had to buy a cowboy hat, and an ice coffee cup with chickens on it, plus a chicken poop lip balm, plus some Wazine.... good thing I don't live near a Tractor Supply or I'd be in there buying stuff every week. Donna & Laurie, they have a fly-jar that attracts flies through pheromones and then collects them in the jar. I think it's for horse barns but it was more attractive looking than those film-strip things. They also had more than one version of D.E. for sprinkling around the coop.
Christine, I totally looked up Barbary Lions too, how funny. It's weird, I thought they were extinct but apparently they may exist in zoo collections. They are doing mitochondrial DNA testing on various captive lions to see if they are in fact that species. I had no idea that there were some in NJ; nor did I know that the King of Morocco has some too. I'd love to come back with my girls to see Space Zoo, it looks pretty neat. If you want to come see the Bronx Zoo we could do that too, we're members there and have the whole place memorized down to the last brick and stone.
In other nerdy things I happen to know topics, I took pictures of the Sassafras trees I still have in my backyard, so if anyone's interested, this is what its leaves look like:
some mittens, some gloves, some just oval. Crush the leaves and smell them, they have a very unique scent.
This is the size sapling you want if you're going to dig it up for the roots:
More the one in the middle, but if you can get the ones on the side, that's ok too. Btw, the weed at the base of the sassafras tree is garlic mustard, which you can pick before it flowers to make a pesto sauce. Sometimes I crush it with creme fraiche and olive oil and walnuts and make a veggie dip with it.
Ok so now I'm really off on a non-chicken related tangent, but here's what the roots look like:
I soaked them with water and changed it a few times to get rid of the dirt, then I peeled it with a vegetable peeler. You can just crush it if you prefer.
Then you boil the roots with water:
And you have Sassafras tea, which you can sweeten with whatever you prefer, and drink hot or cold, fizzy water or no fizzy water added. It's pretty nice. If you can dry out the roots you can use them again, and I tried to dry them in my dehydrator but I guess one day isn't long enough since I found mold on them later. Considering how many Sassafras trees I have I'm not too worried, I can always dig up more.
Christine, I totally looked up Barbary Lions too, how funny. It's weird, I thought they were extinct but apparently they may exist in zoo collections. They are doing mitochondrial DNA testing on various captive lions to see if they are in fact that species. I had no idea that there were some in NJ; nor did I know that the King of Morocco has some too. I'd love to come back with my girls to see Space Zoo, it looks pretty neat. If you want to come see the Bronx Zoo we could do that too, we're members there and have the whole place memorized down to the last brick and stone.
In other nerdy things I happen to know topics, I took pictures of the Sassafras trees I still have in my backyard, so if anyone's interested, this is what its leaves look like:
some mittens, some gloves, some just oval. Crush the leaves and smell them, they have a very unique scent.
This is the size sapling you want if you're going to dig it up for the roots:
More the one in the middle, but if you can get the ones on the side, that's ok too. Btw, the weed at the base of the sassafras tree is garlic mustard, which you can pick before it flowers to make a pesto sauce. Sometimes I crush it with creme fraiche and olive oil and walnuts and make a veggie dip with it.
Ok so now I'm really off on a non-chicken related tangent, but here's what the roots look like:
I soaked them with water and changed it a few times to get rid of the dirt, then I peeled it with a vegetable peeler. You can just crush it if you prefer.
Then you boil the roots with water:
And you have Sassafras tea, which you can sweeten with whatever you prefer, and drink hot or cold, fizzy water or no fizzy water added. It's pretty nice. If you can dry out the roots you can use them again, and I tried to dry them in my dehydrator but I guess one day isn't long enough since I found mold on them later. Considering how many Sassafras trees I have I'm not too worried, I can always dig up more.
Thank you for the crochet chickie Suzanne! I have it on my highest shelf now so that it is out of reach of teething puppies and destructive preschoolers.
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I am not sharing and I don't care what you say.
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