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Stacking the Chicken Deck…….(or how to win big bucks @ next years Florida State Fair)

Stacking the Chicken Deck…….(or how to win big bucks @ next years Florida State Fair)

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  I’m perusing the poultry web-sites… I’m checking chicken mail-order catalogs…   This IS the time of year to start prepping for next year’s Poultry Show at the Florida State Fair.   My younger daughter got her prize money winnings for her Best of Breed Blue-Laced Red Wyandotte hen———she won $5.00… …………………………………………….Woot!  Woot!………………………………………………   Simone should have received her prize money check in the mail by now for her Rooster “Rex”.  She either got $3.00 or maybe even a whopping…

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Bath-Time With Lola

Bath-Time With Lola

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  I’m not skilled enough to down load the video that I took. That’s a pity… It would have been a classic… Tomorrow is check-in for the chickens for the Open Poultry Show at the Florida State Fair…   Lola had to come by tonight to bathe her chicken…………….Lola insisted on coming by this evening to baby-shampoo her bird…………… Who am I to stand in Lola’s way? We had a long conversation earlier today on the appropriate clippers needed for…

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State Fair Poultry Entries

State Fair Poultry Entries

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  We’re getting organized… I’ve got enthusiastic friends on board… The poultry has been identified and chosen… Entry forms have been filled-out and sent in…   Our $3.00 entry fees have been emptied out of pockets and couch cushions and counted up…     Houston, we are on a go status… However a tragic, major stumble has already occurred………………..(i.e.  my friend, Suzanne-Annette’s exhibit ducks were eaten by a dog owned by her Airbnb visitors………….sigh.) The dog broke into her coop…

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Creative Speckled Sussex

Creative Speckled Sussex

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  Speckled Sussex are pretty chickens. We purchased and raised a few chicks last spring. We have one rooster and three hens (maybe four—–they’re hard to count—–they move too quickly).   One enterprising hen recently hatched out a brood in our horse trailer.       Not that surprising…………….they’ll lay and set on eggs just about anywhere…       But our horse trailer doors are always shut. We do have livestock slat openings along the top of the back…

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Where’s Colonel Sanders?

Where’s Colonel Sanders?

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Sometimes I find it’s hard to keep up with life here in the swamp. I’d like to think I orchestrate a lot of the comings and goings; that I have a finger on the pulse of the farm so to speak. Recently I found that’s not the case at all, I’m just part of the flotsam & jetsam in the current of rural life. Which brings me to the recent Florida State Fair. When my girls (the human ones) were…

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