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Meg is B-U-TI-FULL !!! 
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purplequeenvt
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Why thank you!CochinBrahmaLover=) said:Meg is B-U-TI-FULL !!!
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Our 1st local fair is only 5 days away! We are bringing 23 sheep, 3 ducks (mama duck and her babies), 12 rabbits, and 2 alpacas (they belong to someone else, but they are away and won't be back in time to bring them to the fair grounds the day before). I also have 83 eggs incubating for the hatching display in the Children's Barnyard. Hopefully some hatch. 
I've been having bad dreams about the whole incubating thing. I had a really bad hatch a few months ago and I was worrying about getting it right this time. Anyway, I kept dreaming that all the eggs hatched a week early and then a few days ago I went to the basement to work on a project and I heard peeping coming from one of the incubators....I almost had a heart attack! One of the bantam eggs was hatching! I had taken 4 eggs from my sister's bantam who recently started setting. I didn't know when she had started, but I thought that it had only been a few days...WRONG! Unfortunately, the chick didn't survive. The mother hen hatched 3 chicks out of her 4 remaining eggs.
We do a lot of stuff at this fair...we are very involved with the sheep. At least one of us has shown sheep here for the past 10+ years, this year there are 2 of us plus 2 friends (showing our sheep). Usually my mom is the show secretary (not this year though) and I have been the ring steward for the past I don't know how many years. We bring a bunch of animals to the Children's Barnyard and help out in there a lot. I also sing in the Addison County Gospel Choir which performs the first evening.
I'll post pictures and results after we get back from the fair.
I've been having bad dreams about the whole incubating thing. I had a really bad hatch a few months ago and I was worrying about getting it right this time. Anyway, I kept dreaming that all the eggs hatched a week early and then a few days ago I went to the basement to work on a project and I heard peeping coming from one of the incubators....I almost had a heart attack! One of the bantam eggs was hatching! I had taken 4 eggs from my sister's bantam who recently started setting. I didn't know when she had started, but I thought that it had only been a few days...WRONG! Unfortunately, the chick didn't survive. The mother hen hatched 3 chicks out of her 4 remaining eggs.
We do a lot of stuff at this fair...we are very involved with the sheep. At least one of us has shown sheep here for the past 10+ years, this year there are 2 of us plus 2 friends (showing our sheep). Usually my mom is the show secretary (not this year though) and I have been the ring steward for the past I don't know how many years. We bring a bunch of animals to the Children's Barnyard and help out in there a lot. I also sing in the Addison County Gospel Choir which performs the first evening.
I'll post pictures and results after we get back from the fair.
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I'm back! It rained half the fair, but everyone had a good time. The sheep did ok in the show, not as well as Lyd hoped, but well enough. Not a one of my 83 eggs hatched. The theory is that they got way too cold the 1st couple of nights. I was going to bring the eggs home and crack them open, but someone threw them all away as they were cleaning up, despite the fact that they were all in my incubator and cartons. I was a little peeved about that. Thankfully somebody else
Now for the pictures!
Youth Show - Intermediate showmanship. Lyd got 3rd out of 14 and the 2 friends that we brought with us got 7th and 9th.
Sebastian in the Natural Colored Best Fleece class (youth show)
Lyd and her friend "C" after the Wool Leadline contest
NC aged Border Leicester ewes (open show)
NC BL flock (open show)
White BL flock (open show)
White BL ewe lambs (open show)
My Shetland flock (I had the only Shetlands there and all of the little kids wanted to help show them)
Aged Shetland ewe - Bridget
Champion Shetland ewe - Inna
Inna in the Supreme Ewe class
Eugene in Supreme Ram - he didn't get supreme, but the judge said that he got the Most Well behaved ram award
He stayed right where I put him the entire time. all I had to do was scratch his chest.
As you can see, my Shetlands were abused the whole week....
Lyd went into the sheep tent one afternoon and found a young boy (another exhibitor) in one of the Shetland pens. She asked him what he was doing, his response...."They're so cute!" I had people asking me if they could take my sheep out and carry them around. *shakes head*
One of our friends with Fae
Steve and her daughter, Rebecca
Natural Colored ewe lamb class - the NC BL's were combined with all the other natural colored sheep because there weren't *enough* exhibitors to have their own show according to 4-H rules.
Costume class. They were the 7 of monks of the Verizon Order come to share their excellent coverage against the precipitation that had fallen over the land.
Blocking and Fitting competition
Now for the pictures!
Youth Show - Intermediate showmanship. Lyd got 3rd out of 14 and the 2 friends that we brought with us got 7th and 9th.
Sebastian in the Natural Colored Best Fleece class (youth show)
Lyd and her friend "C" after the Wool Leadline contest
NC aged Border Leicester ewes (open show)
NC BL flock (open show)
White BL flock (open show)
White BL ewe lambs (open show)
My Shetland flock (I had the only Shetlands there and all of the little kids wanted to help show them)
Aged Shetland ewe - Bridget
Champion Shetland ewe - Inna
Inna in the Supreme Ewe class
Eugene in Supreme Ram - he didn't get supreme, but the judge said that he got the Most Well behaved ram award
He stayed right where I put him the entire time. all I had to do was scratch his chest.
As you can see, my Shetlands were abused the whole week....
Lyd went into the sheep tent one afternoon and found a young boy (another exhibitor) in one of the Shetland pens. She asked him what he was doing, his response...."They're so cute!" I had people asking me if they could take my sheep out and carry them around. *shakes head*
One of our friends with Fae
Steve and her daughter, Rebecca
Natural Colored ewe lamb class - the NC BL's were combined with all the other natural colored sheep because there weren't *enough* exhibitors to have their own show according to 4-H rules.
Costume class. They were the 7 of monks of the Verizon Order come to share their excellent coverage against the precipitation that had fallen over the land.
Blocking and Fitting competition
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We are on day 2 of the Champlain Valley Fair, 8 more to go. We had the youth sheep show yesterday and the meat show today.
Lyd won her showmanship class! I'm so proud of her. And her little buddy, a young girl that Lyd has been working with all summer, got 1st in the novice showmanship.
Anyway, I wanted to share a picture that I took today......
The Hampshire is the biggest ram in the barn and Eugene, my little Shetland ram, is the smallest.
Lyd won her showmanship class! I'm so proud of her. And her little buddy, a young girl that Lyd has been working with all summer, got 1st in the novice showmanship.
Anyway, I wanted to share a picture that I took today......
The Hampshire is the biggest ram in the barn and Eugene, my little Shetland ram, is the smallest.
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Omg!! Adorable!
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oh my gosh how cute is that! Love the big ram and the little shetland under him. And lol at the "abused" shetlands! Looks li ke you had a great time.
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How old are those Shetland sheep?
