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this is a really good post, thank you sonoran. Puppy mill tho? HECK NO! i simply LOVE my birds. I really want to show, and to me "i thought" if i went to these shows being a member off APA ,ABA, and all of my birds are NPIP tested then that would at least give me the image not only i would like to see for myself, but for other people to see too. As far as making money goes.." once i did the work and got a few shows under me" then i would most likely look into selling hatching eggs and chicks. I am basically starting from scratch as of now, but i know it takes time and hard work to get where i want to get. I have a few adult birds of what i want to start working with...but not much from there. As far as offspring that i would not use, i am absolutely going to have to suck it up and learn how to cull. I always told myself i would never do it, but the more and more serious i want to get with this, the more and more i realize that culling is a must if i want to raise SQ birds. My motives for wanting to raise, show, and sell are very simple.
For 10 years i did 4-H not ever showing chicken's....always wanted to but never did, it was hog's and cattle for me. My 10th year was in 2005. After that i guess you can say i just didn't feel right not competing every july like i did for the last 10 years. Not because i wanted to win, not because i wanted money, but for the experience, for that one moment of happiness you got from seeing something you worked SO hard on finally pay off in the end. Sure you can work hard a the office, or work hard at home, but for me there's nothing like taking another creatures life in your own hands and working with it to achieve that moment of happiness. I can do that again with these chicken's. Before i had a HUGE barn with everything i ever needed for the cows and hogs, now that im out i didn't have the correct facilities to even THINK about showing any type of animal. hen i had an Aumsh man build me a coop, then i raised some day old layer chicks, THEN i started hatching egg's, THEN!!!! i got into silkies and a few other show bantam's. I never thought i could do this...ever, but i am and im love'in every second of it! I missed talking to the other 4-h'ers that grew up alongside of me about their animals, i missed our rich conversations about every aspect of our topic animal at that moment, it was dialog that my college buddies and old high school friends could not speak or understand with me. Simply put i just never knew i could love a farm stock animal ever again like i use to until i found chickens. I love my birds...and call me crazy but i think they love me right back
this is a really good post, thank you sonoran. Puppy mill tho? HECK NO! i simply LOVE my birds. I really want to show, and to me "i thought" if i went to these shows being a member off APA ,ABA, and all of my birds are NPIP tested then that would at least give me the image not only i would like to see for myself, but for other people to see too. As far as making money goes.." once i did the work and got a few shows under me" then i would most likely look into selling hatching eggs and chicks. I am basically starting from scratch as of now, but i know it takes time and hard work to get where i want to get. I have a few adult birds of what i want to start working with...but not much from there. As far as offspring that i would not use, i am absolutely going to have to suck it up and learn how to cull. I always told myself i would never do it, but the more and more serious i want to get with this, the more and more i realize that culling is a must if i want to raise SQ birds. My motives for wanting to raise, show, and sell are very simple.
For 10 years i did 4-H not ever showing chicken's....always wanted to but never did, it was hog's and cattle for me. My 10th year was in 2005. After that i guess you can say i just didn't feel right not competing every july like i did for the last 10 years. Not because i wanted to win, not because i wanted money, but for the experience, for that one moment of happiness you got from seeing something you worked SO hard on finally pay off in the end. Sure you can work hard a the office, or work hard at home, but for me there's nothing like taking another creatures life in your own hands and working with it to achieve that moment of happiness. I can do that again with these chicken's. Before i had a HUGE barn with everything i ever needed for the cows and hogs, now that im out i didn't have the correct facilities to even THINK about showing any type of animal. hen i had an Aumsh man build me a coop, then i raised some day old layer chicks, THEN i started hatching egg's, THEN!!!! i got into silkies and a few other show bantam's. I never thought i could do this...ever, but i am and im love'in every second of it! I missed talking to the other 4-h'ers that grew up alongside of me about their animals, i missed our rich conversations about every aspect of our topic animal at that moment, it was dialog that my college buddies and old high school friends could not speak or understand with me. Simply put i just never knew i could love a farm stock animal ever again like i use to until i found chickens. I love my birds...and call me crazy but i think they love me right back
