Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Ohio National Poultry Show


On November 8th and 9th, I was in Columbus, Ohio for the Ohio Poultry Breeders Associations Fall Poultry Show with 15 of my silkies. Had a great time and was able to visit with several very nice people. There were 5300 birds entered in this show, entered by 442 exhibitors.


Dispite a very frightening 6.5 hour trip from NY, having some major problems with my bird trailor, I was so thrilled that we made it to this very large show safely. There were 47 silkies shown by 8 exhibitors, and my young white bearded pullet got best of breed and a white bearded hen shown by Shari Evans got Reserve of Breed. Had a great time visiting with Shari again and look forward to the next show we are both able to attend. Terry Britt was the judge for the silkies.
My other birds who got BV or RV included splash hen BR, splash pullet RV, partridge pullet BV, cuckoo pullet BV, cuckoo pullet RV, blue partridge cock BV, and white showgirl pullet BV.
Thank goodness our 5 hour trip home was uneventful. We got home a couple of hours before the snow started to fall, which by the way has not stopped since then. Hope to see even more silkie friends next year, this is a show that anyone who loves poultry should not miss.
There was also a great turnout for the call duck national meet, with Art Lundgren of Jamestown NY getting the Best of Breed with one of his white calls, a gorgeous little duck.