Stella's Social Club

[Happy Chooks]

Oh, this is involuntary. She can't control it. It's like breathing for the rest of us.

 

[robhuncor]

Gorgeous day here in CA today. 68 degrees.

I will be showing my birds for the first time at the end of January. I'm excited and terrified at the same time! I'll be taking both Welsummers and Barnevelders.

Kelly, one of my favorite poultry shows is coming up in a couple of weeks in Springfield, Mass. I have never shown a bird but I love to go and observe. 3,000+ chickens - it's amazing! It's total cacophony with all the roosters crowing at once. The most beautifully presented birds win. Give them a bath, polish up their legs and combs and make sure all feathers are in order - you'll do great. Have fun and good luck !

 

[Happy Chooks]

Kelly, one of my favorite poultry shows is coming up in a couple of weeks in Springfield, Mass. I have never shown a bird but I love to go and observe. 3,000+ chickens - it's amazing! It's total cacophony with all the roosters crowing at once. The most beautifully presented birds win. Give them a bath, polish up their legs and combs and make sure all feathers are in order - you'll do great. Have fun and good luck !

Thanks. I attended this show last year, and I was amazed. The Brahma's were the most shocking to me, holy cow are they HUGE! And you are right about the noise, but the roosters didn't hold a candle to the geese and call ducks. Mary and I had a great laugh at the call ducks. For such a little duck, they have a really loud quack!

I'm not showing to win, I want input from the judges on my birds. Walt here (he's an APA judge) has encouraged me to show my birds. They are both rare breeds and they don't get much visibility at the shows.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Gorgeous day here in CA today. 68 degrees.

I will be showing my birds for the first time at the end of January. I'm excited and terrified at the same time! I'll be taking both Welsummers and Barnevelders.

Ooh, me too Feb 7 here in Oklahoma! I'm so nervous! Need to mail in my forms this week!!!

Kelly talk to Mike about pre show nerves - he prevailed and made his Sunna a champion all by himself. You don't put a dog in a cage for judging, they have to pose them and run round the ring showing the gait and follow judges' instructions.

Showing a bird must be easy peasy. You'll do just fine. Just don't tell everyone around you that their pullets are really cockerels- wrong way to make friends.

HAHAHA ROFL!!!

Snapped these at the Shawnee, OK national show in December. A show is an amazing event!!!

 

[robhuncor]

. For such a little duck, they have a really loud quack!

That's why they're called Call ducks - for the loud call! Hunters carried them in in their pockets and set them out in the water to lure in the wild ducks with their loud quacking. I think they are the cutest little things!

 

[Amberjem]

Congratulations!

blue?

 

[Amberjem]

I got egg #3 from Loca this morning. 588 grams!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

HA a regular, Large chicken egg is about 55-60 grams. THIS egg is 588 grams to give you a sense of size. It's an Emu egg. Isn't it gorgeous??? We are all going to gang up on Mary now and get her to set it in the incubator...

 

[drumstick diva]

I want Stuart to get the experience of being a broody Emu. Love the idea of the male being stuck with all the work., I cannot lie.

 

[drumstick diva]

When most poultry are being shown - does the judge pull them out of the cage to look them over? Or does the owner hold them or something?

I know from the serama threads the bird is judged on a table and supposed to present himself in correct form., head up and back and tail just about touching back of head. Or maybe that is just for the Malaysian type which is much more exaggerated than the American form. I know a lot of them table train their birds to stand like that.