Lets talk showing chickens. I am getting ready to enter some chickens in the fair. I bought some numbered leg bands and I want to know are Barnvelders accepted by the APA? Can you show Frizzles? One time many years ago I had a trio of white Cochins I was going to show at the Utah state Fair. I gave them a bath and thought on the horses I washed with the blueing shampoo to make the white really white BUT IR WAS HAIR. CHICKENS HAVE FEATHERS AND GUESS WHAT they went light purple. The feather shafts absorbed the blueing and so I had purple white cochins. I entered them anyway and everyone had a good laugh at my expense, so this year when they get a bath no blueing
Sounds like fun all you that are hatching more eggs!! Those Mille Fleurs sure are pretty!! Yes, Cynthia, I have the FBCM's you hatched, and guess what, I think they are both little pullets=) And of the 2 remaining EE's, I'm thinking one is a boy and one is a girl.. It's really interesting to see the difference between them... One's body looks more like a Leghorn, but it has Amer characteristics, slate legs, tufts, etc...And the other looks more like an Amer with a pea comb, but yellow legs... It will be really interesting to see what they end up looking like...
Speaking of EE's, Moriah has some chicks I'm trying to get... proving to be a little tricky... Lisa can pick them up from Red's area on Tuesday when she is there... I hear Sundance might be going to Orem next week?? Or is anyone coming up from that area that would be by Red before Tuesday?? Lisa will babysit them for me till I can come get them or someone else comes up this way... Ideas anyone??
Oh, and I sold my 3 older cockerels! Woo-Hoo!! Now I'm down 5 just in time for Lisa to bring me 3 more=) Can't wait!!
Raining here again.. loving it, but wow it's humid when the sun comes out!! Reminds me of when we lived in FL...