Big weekend - Victorian Waterfowl Show, which my 2 Aylesbury were entered in. (Firsts in open duck and drake, Tim's were in young duck and drake, his girl taking breed.) The judge made a comment it was nice to see more people getting them out there and hopefully getting more people to take them on as awareness grew.

I fell in LOVE again. This gorgeous little call girl of Broken Birds...

I just love her pretty colouring - so soft, and her lovely dark slately points!

Then today was another auction at Euroa. I got to catch up with a number of people we'd seen at the VWA show and several I've not seen since the last Euroa auction. Everyone from VWA show was there so it was a regular BYP get together!

There were absolute heaps of Indian Games, lots of Pekins in a variety of colours with mixed results, nice number of geese, guinea fowls, OEG, Muzzies, a pair of very nice looking Pekin ducks etc. There were a few Partridge Std Dottes there but the penciling was so poor I'd warrant they were CB instead of PB if I didn't know there were so few CB lines anymore! One had lots of silver in it as well. So I passed on them. Silkies... some black ones but nothing that impressed me. Partridge likewise.

In the end I ended up buying a lavender pekin roo and his daughter

and a "lavender-something" also from John Damiano who incubated eggs for me previously.

Pretty fella!

I also got a trio of OEG bantams - roo is a golden blue duckwing like my other one and the two girls dubbed dun-pyle and golden blue duckwing but a bit course so will probably onsell.

Last but not least, a few clips of the afternoon as it faded into evening on our 'wandering' trip back home...



Last but not least - a few photos of the Wyandotte kids and Aylesbury...

Jarrah x Penny - Clutch #1, Two Bands

Jarrah x Penny, Cluctch 1, One Band

Pullet from the same clutch (foreground) and Penny (background)

Now why couldn't they stand like this at the SHOW?!?

Here's some pics from today of the little OEGb cockrel after his dubbing. He looks so different this way but he is such a gorgeous guy, I could just spend all day watching him and not get sick of it.


I know I already posted this to my regular blog, but since not everyone reads both my trip to Canberra is officially off. The roof sprouted a leak, which killed the electricity which spawned visits from the various repair people who came to the conclusion I need a new roof and new wiring which is exceedingly very expensive. *le sigh* I was really looking forward to it too!

Busy busy busy

That's what this weekend has been! Saturday morning we went out to Frankston to pick up the new breeding sheds. The biggest pannel being 8x12' and all of them very heavy! I had to drive a 3 Tonne Truck. Twas a bit cool! This was all done in the pouring rain as well! LOL The next trick will be setting them up. I need to get someone with welding skills out and that will *definitely* be a few weeks.

Today we went to Warrigul PC's young bird show. I mostly wanted to get some "in person" opinions of my OEG bantams and someone to help with my 1st dubbing. Most of my other chooks are too old for a young bird show or too young.

A few of the fellows said the cockrel was a nice young chap to start with but I needed to match him up to a different color hen, and the hens need a different colour roo. He was dubbed and didn't seem too fussed by it. I'll post a new pic of him in a few days. The OEGb pullet got a 1st card but the most interesting bit wasn't that... but that they reckon she's honey dun NOT lemon blue! (I see days of reasearch on dun ahead...)

Then Ambrose (Aylesbury drake) turned up a sore leg... all I can think is he must have hurt it in the car somehow! :-( Poor fella isn't going to be happy to be stuck in a sick-cage for a week or so! Silkie went unplaced, not surprised.

And now... *kersplotz*

better pics of the new kids

Sir rooster from the side and front


and the two girls

what you can't see is what animated little gorgeous critters they are. It's like watching little wind-up toys... they never stop moving!

Dandenong Poultry Clubs Show

I wasn't showing today but went down to have a lookie-loo since it's fairly close to us and it's always nice to meet more local people. Of course, being as I was arrogant enough to post on a public forum that morning that I was pretty happy just having my 'dottes, silkies and aylesbury I promptly found something too pretty not to buy. ~_~;

So I'm the proud new owner of a trio of Old English Game. The roo is sold to me as blue duckwing, the girls as lemon blues. I know nothing about OEG but they're pretty and I like them and they're close to looking like the blue cream light brown dutch bantams on my "colour one day I must create in Australia" list. LOL (The BCLB Dutch bantam can be seen http://www.dutchbantamsocietyamerica.com/files/adbscolor_files/typebluecreamlightbrownc.jpg here)

So here's the new trio in their cage.

Roo seperate

Pullet

and hen.

Now for a few of the other birds there that caught my eye...

I was happy to see a lovely Aylesbury there... one of Jacquie's babies, owned by ToH

Pilgrim Goose - Tim's as are the two brown Chinese below



Silkie - there were two of them, same owner absolutely lovely to see the SIZE on them! Gee wiz, would love to have that with my blacks! O_O

Std Partridge Dotte - a surprise to see, apparently also of the same bloodlines mine are from but the only one the guy owns, so no luck in having another local breeder!

Random game cock and hen, above and below


A pretty pair of buff orphington ducks, drake and hen

And below, a number of the muscovy there....



Another blue and white, whose markings I really liked. I still know beans about Muzzies but the colouring on her wings was such a pretty frosted blue. One of Hamish Russells I think.