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Oh nuts! Really? Yes, I had several entries and was there Sat. and Sunday until about 1400 or so when I started home.
So help me out, which one were you? What did you bring to the show? Oh, I am soooooo bad with people and names!
God Bless,
How did your birds do? It's too far and the passes too scary for me...but I'm hoping to be at Monroe next spring--it just depends on who's molting and when....last spring almost everything was nasty until about June!
Hi Heather,
Missed ya at the show. My birds did well but unfortunately there was no competition for my LF WBS Ameraucanas, Buckeyes, Welsummers, Black Cayuga, Swedish Blue, and Pekins. And that's disappointing especially in the case of the Ameraucanas as I'm really very pleased with the results I am seeing from last year's breeding efforts. I know I've turned out the best Ameraucanas that I ever have before.
I thought my White Runners would do better than they did but am guessing they were too small and maybe still to young for the judges. 1st Place went to an old duck that was pretty nice type-wise but was in really poor condition. I did take Best Medium Class Duck with my Swedish Blue. I also think my Black Cayuga would have done pretty well but he got loose as I was loading the birds and he beat his wing tips to a pulp trying to get away as I was trying to catch him. Other than that, a lot of my birds still had a lot of pin feathers and of course that matters. It didn't much matter for the breed because as I mentioned they were all pretty much by themselves but had they been in better condition, I might have done better for the Best of Class.
I hear ya about the molting. I have one Buckeye cockerel that, believe it or not, even now looks like his entire neck is covered with ice sickles. It's nothing but pin feathers!
Anyways, here's wishing you the best for next year and hope to see ya next April in Monroe!
God Bless,