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[KMHunter]

[COLOR=FF0000]Ha ha ! Just waite til ya get to a big real poultry show !!! With geese, turkeys, GUINEAS and every kinda chook you can think of...it is fun really ![/COLOR]

Are they bigger than fair shows?

I'm glad DH and I snuck away to the fair w/o kids this year.  All the little bantams crowing may have unnerved my son.  Their crow seemed to be a lot higher pitched.  I dunno... the auction was probably louder than the fair was.  I'm just glad there was a leghorn that kept sticking his head out of a box in front of him.  That kept his attention.  That, and a bunny nose.

The upcoming PNPA show in Salem Oct 13-14th will have upwards of 1000 birds.

I am so bummed I am not going to make this one! I was really looking forward to it. I am definitely going in April!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Quote: The upcoming PNPA show in Salem Oct 13-14th will have upwards of 1000 birds.

I am so bummed I am not going to make this one! I was really looking forward to it. I am definitely going in April!

 

[Rainwolf]

I'm thinking about jumping in my truck and going to see CL .. hmmm

Heya... do you help build/rebuild garages???

 

[FirewifeJess]

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I tried getting molasses water into her but she fought me. She's gone now. Her breathing became quite labored and she started having fluid come out of her nose. Sounded to me like she was drowning in her own internal fluids. She had to have been poisoned, nothing else makes sense. DH and I culled her half an hour ago. It's been a rough day watching her like that and I'm really sad so I'll come back later.

 

[JennS]

I tried getting molasses water into her but she fought me. She's gone now. Her breathing became quite labored and she started having fluid come out of her nose. Sounded to me like she was drowning in her own internal fluids. She had to have been poisoned, nothing else makes sense. DH and I culled her half an hour ago. It's been a rough day watching her like that and I'm really sad so I'll come back later.

I'm very sorry for your loss.

Jennifer

 

[SadieSue]

Quote: The upcoming PNPA show in Salem Oct 13-14th will have upwards of 1000 birds.

I am so bummed I am not going to make this one! I was really looking forward to it. I am definitely going in April!

I'm going to miss the PNPA show AND the Oregon Poultry Swap. I hate missing any fun shows! Really hope I can make it in April. It depends on my theater schedule that month since I know I'm Stage Managing "Little Shop of Horrors" in the spring. Of course, the more shows I miss, the more money I save so there's an 'upside' to everything I guess!

 

[SadieSue]

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I tried getting molasses water into her but she fought me. She's gone now. Her breathing became quite labored and she started having fluid come out of her nose. Sounded to me like she was drowning in her own internal fluids. She had to have been poisoned, nothing else makes sense. DH and I culled her half an hour ago. It's been a rough day watching her like that and I'm really sad so I'll come back later.

Ah Jess... I'm so sorry. You tried hard to save her. Poor thing.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Anybody Seattle or north thereof that IS coming to the show that can take a Fav cockerel back up there for elizmartin?? It seems a waste of money to ship him to her, if there is someone that could transport...

Thanks!

 

[VelvettFog]

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I'll help with most anything.

 

[Chickielady]

We never did find our pullet that went missing last week. I still suspect neighborhood hooligans but their hang-out (an empty house next door) was just cleaned up and rented out so I'm feeling good. If they can't trespass there anymore, my backyard is no longer an escape route. Which is great, because we kicked butt this week to finish some projects back there before I start school again...we're trying so hard to make it nice.

We rented a jackhammer Monday and knocked out two big cement slabs (roughly 7' x 10' x 4" thick, ugly wastes of space and we've wanted to get rid of them since we moved in), had to clear out all the concrete chunks (anyone need them for fill or retaining walls? It's all sitting in our alley-side driveway, haven't had any craigslist takers yet

). Tuesday I had 10 yards of fill dirt and tagro dumped in our driveway (my husband's eyes got huge when my "truckload" turned out to be a dumptruck

), had to shovel and wheelbarrow it all into the back to fill the holes we made, and finished that by Wednesday afternoon. Yesterday we dropped some grass seed and straw, and we're hoping to have some cover before winter and a nice green yard next spring. I am sore and worn out, but so glad to be done even if it does look like someone blew up straw bales all over my backyard.

To celebrate, I replaced the missing pullet...with two more girls . Joining our buff sussex (Luna), red sexlink (Ren), and Rhode Island white (Sun), we now have a silver laced wyandotte (no name yet) and an easter egger (Jackie). They're pretty skittish, but already opening up to bribery by mealworms. We named Jackie after Jackie Chan...this little pullet is the fastest, flightiest, most ninja chicken I've ever been around and is impossible to catch with out very coordinated efforts by myself and my husband...but once caught she easily falls asleep and makes sweet little noises. I think she'll be pretty cuddly once she learns that the happy lap time doesn't need to be preceded by 15 minutes of screaming and running and doing backflips over the lawn furniture...even though we're just standing in strategic spots waiting for her to calm down. The other girl isn't so high-strung...just aloof.

Fluffy butt wyandotte needs to grow in her tail feathers:



Jackie doing the creep:

WOW you have been busy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!