its time to go to fair again

[Poka_Doodle]

@goatgurl on my computer, lol, and true. Our you can check out my photo on the Picture of the Week thread

 

[Poka_Doodle]

@goatgurl check out my new avatar, my favorite picture

 

[Ridgetop]

Congratulations to all the 4-Hers out there raising animals for fair. None of the visitors know how hard you guys had to work on your project animals to get them raised, fitted and shown. As a 4-H mom of 4 kids who raised everything for fair and did all the work themselves, I really congratulate you on your accomplishments. Congratulations and cheers to all 4-H parents too - it takes a lot of commitment by the kids but a lot of dedication on the parents' part too. Happy times!

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Thanks, I am going to start me market birds this year

 

[jk47]

I agree with Ridge top
I dont know how many times my mom had to take time off work to before I could drive to take my to the Ag. Dept at odd times and wake up at 6am on her days off so I could feed my stock and making sure my FFA uniform stayed clean at fairs by going home to wash and iron them
FFA/4h is diffently a group effort with the members, advisors and parents

 

[Ridgetop]

Yes, but no matter how much work it is we parents love it too. And that is what parents are for! We love you kids! And it is a great learning experience in commitment, responsibility, etc. I see you have pigs - my kids used to have pig races on theirs when they were 8 & 9 the winner was the one who stayed on the longest. the loser had to round them up! LOL

 

[Poka_Doodle]

For me and my future I think that County Fair will be my first of three shows in three months, a lot of work but then fun. I think I should train a few more showmanship birds if I want to be like that though. My main girl can do one or two of those three and Stock Show but I don't want to were her out with showmanship, I want to keep it fun and make it last for a while. That is one of those things hard to realize.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

I want to show again!!! Litarly. Anyways, I found out on Sunday I had been awarded Grand Champion Poultry Herdsman. No idea quite how, but I did talk to the superintendent about noticing my main show bird hadn't drank for 2 days, and show was the next day.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Stock Show is coming and my best girl isn't doing so well. Also I have to train another showmanship bird to fill the spot of my chicken Pumpkin who had done my past shows but passed on Halloween. The effort put in isn't realized from those who see our animals or projects, they only look at the final result, but those E-Records are a lot of work. Congrats to those who do them during the School year, not just July when we know we have to. To me the reward is fair week, once Monday comes it is pretty easy. Sure we have the Tuesday baths and the food packing, we know there will be a son reward for baths and food packing is rather fun, I may have thought my girls needed a lot more food then they actually did, but oh well.

 

[sadieml]

Sorry for the late dated likes on this thread. I wasn't paying attention to the dates.