October 7, 2018 - Eastern Maine Poultry Fanciers Fall Show

Well, deciding to have a baby meant we’d be lucky to make it to one poultry show this year and we decided to make it our home club show. We loaded the birds in the dark the night before and woke up at 5:30 AM to make the drive to Windsor to make sure everyone was cooped by 9 AM and somehow we made it. It was a wonderful show with some incredible birds. We’re pleased to say that all three breeds we showed performed well. We took 5 Black Copper marans who ended up placing 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the pullet class and 2nd and 3rd in the cockerel class, with a nice healthy showing of Marans overall. We were thrilled to see what others in the area are producing and honored to take Best of Breed. Our favorite pullet also went on to be selected Reserve Continental. We entered 5 Saxony and 2 Toulouse, the only representatives of their breeds. Despite not having any breed competition, they went on to perform admirably; a Saxony drake went on to be selected Best Heavy Duck and our 7 month old Toulouse goose (a baby for a toulouse!) was selected Reserve Goose.