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Post by Mars on Sept 3, 2004 14:37:12 GMT 12.75
Ours was in July.
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Post by Paws on Sept 4, 2004 2:00:51 GMT 12.75
Our county fair was last month.Sure screws up the "biggest pumpkin" contest!!
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Post by Mars on Sept 4, 2004 3:33:44 GMT 12.75
Yea it does but it makes for a good time with the pumkin catapault.
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Post by CountryGal on Sept 4, 2004 8:43:54 GMT 12.75
Ours starts on Sept. 17th. but I will be in Texas watching a re-enactment in Albany at some fort there.
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Post by Paws on Sept 6, 2004 3:14:41 GMT 12.75
Take lots of pictures CG! When are you going to get Jerry into a XXL Reb uniform??
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Post by CountryGal on Sept 6, 2004 6:58:26 GMT 12.75
Oh Paws, you know how men are. He has a girlfriend and he can't get his head out of her butt long enough to sneeze. He wont do anything till he gets married and you can't get a man to do anything with you then. ;D You can't live with them and you can't beat them up cause they are bigger than you but you got to love them. ;D
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Post by Paws on Jul 31, 2006 0:49:28 GMT 12.75
Hey you guys and gals please get your fair schedules posted here quick as you can cause fair season is right around the corner! ;D Faith that includes you as well and let us know where you will be showing off your beef! ;D
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Post by brittonfaith on Jul 31, 2006 9:31:48 GMT 12.75
Looks like I'm going to miss the Barnesville Pumpkin Festival, last full weekend of September. MAKES ME SICK!! Have about eight beauties out in the weed patch that are pushing 350 lb with two more months to go! This would have been my personal best season. I figure they will top out at around 740 lb. I usually enter a tomato in their heaviest tomato contest too. The "small" ones I've picked so far are averaging 2 lb. If any of you attend, look for a pumpkin entry from Olney Friends (aka OFS, boarding school). That will be one from my patch. Only good thing about not being here for P'fest is I'm not going to be the one responsible for baking 1,750 loaves of pumpkin bread this year!! Five years of that is enough for me! ;D www.barnesvillepumpkinfestival.com/Default.htm (BTW - the picture of the canned goods display on that page is mine from 2 years ago. Took 1st place. ;D ;D Last years display had 23 jars of stuff.) Our new boss' wife, Bonnie Van Dyk, will be the judge of the 4-H dairy show at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 10. We will still be in Barnesville. So I won't get in on that one. www.iowastatefair.org/I will be assisting with showing at the National Fall Holstein Show at the Minnesota State Fair at St. Paul on August 30. (will arrive Aug. 28) www.mnstatefair.org/index.htmlOther prospective show dates are Oct. 3-7, World Dairy Expo (International Holstein Show) at the Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI. www.world-dairy-expo.com/gen.home.cfmIf we do well in Madison, there is a remote possibility that we will be at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, Ontario in November. This will depend not only on placings at Madison, but how soon winter arrives to Wisconsin. I know a couple from Ohio who have shown in Toronto that ended up stranded in snow. www.royalfair.org/default.aspx?tabid=10000116That's enough about what I'll be up to. How's about the rest of you? ??
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Jul 31, 2006 12:44:59 GMT 12.75
Our fair is around the last of September this year. Usually it is around Labor Day, but they moved it back. The 4-H chickens are looking good. Last year we won 3rd overall in the 4-H division but this year the chickens started laying early. In fact about 2 weeks early so i tend to think we might have a chance of winning it all.
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Post by Brikatw on Jul 31, 2006 13:04:15 GMT 12.75
State Fair of zLouisiana will be just about as normal. Right at the start of deer season I think. What a toss up ;D
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Post by brittonfaith on Aug 2, 2006 3:27:34 GMT 12.75
Our fair is around the last of September this year. Usually it is around Labor Day, but they moved it back. The 4-H chickens are looking good. Last year we won 3rd overall in the 4-H division but this year the chickens started laying early. In fact about 2 weeks early so i tend to think we might have a chance of winning it all. Good luck with the chickens! Hope you do a clean sweep in the ribbons & trophy department. ;D Do you enter meat or breed classes? Have always wanted to try my hand at Millefluer (sp?). Did have a nice Silver Penciled Rock rooster and some Golden Laced Wyandottes laying hens for a couple years when I was a kid.
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Aug 2, 2006 9:30:50 GMT 12.75
Our county fair has just 2 classifications really then a few sub-classess. The classes are exotic and 4-H poultry chain. We will be in both but mainly in the poultry chain where there are 2 different classes. The brown leghorn and white leghorn. We have raised the whites until this year but this year we tried the browns. Even though they are the same type of bird, the breeds are totally different especially their temperment. ;D
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Post by Brikatw on Aug 2, 2006 12:16:10 GMT 12.75
Freddie, maybe you should run on down and enter the kids 4H in the state fair here. Lots of the folks are from up that way. And they'd have a ball I'm sure ;D ;D
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Post by Mars on Aug 13, 2006 2:41:46 GMT 12.75
Appalachian Fair
80 years of cowbells & carousels (1926-2006)
August 21-26
livestock exhibits
beef- Aug. 21-23 sheep-Aug. 24-26 dairy-Aug. 24-26
Charlie Daniels Band-Aug.21 Jamie O'Neal- Aug. 22 Phil Vassar-Aug. 23 Miranda Lambert- Aug. 24 Trent Tomlinson-Aug. 25 Keith Anderson- Aug. 26
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Sept 21, 2006 8:57:29 GMT 12.75
Well, Lucas did alright at the fair. He carried 4 Brown leghorns, 8 exotics, 1 white leghorn (the other escaped) and a 6 pack of eggs. Won a blue ribbon for the brown leghorns, a red ribbon for the whilte leghorn, a blue ribbon for the eggs, 4 red ribbons for 4 exotics, 4 blues for the rest of the exotics, and GRAND CHAMPION for one of the exotics. They awarded a plaque this year to all Grand Champions and then they judge between them for the Best of Show. We haven't heard who won that yet, but we are in the running. All in all I think he done pretty good, especially for an 8 year old. Ribbon total 5 Red ribbons 6 Blue ribbons 1 GRAND CHAMPION ribbon 1 GRAND CHAMPION plaque
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Post by Paws on Sept 21, 2006 9:27:11 GMT 12.75
That don't sound too awful bad for chicken feed!
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Post by Mars on Oct 7, 2006 1:03:39 GMT 12.75
YEA! Unicoi County Apple Festival started today. I only have to pay $5. instead of $10. for parking! Mom gave me a $5. family discount! Ain't family great!
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Post by Bro. Freddie on May 2, 2007 8:23:02 GMT 12.75
We have already started on the boy's fair/4-H projects. This will be the first year Anthony has gotten to participate due to his age. The first of March, we recieved 25 brown leghorn hen chicks, 1 brown eghorn rooster chick, and 25 white leghorn hen chicks for a grand total of 51 chicks (that's for ya'll that can't add ). The brown leghorns are Lucas' and the whites are Anthony's. So far, we have not had any die which is amazing since they are all in a 10'X10' pen. Both boys will show both sets of chickens at the fair, mainly so that they can get ribbons (and ribbon money). As for our trip, we went last Saturday (April 28th) to a show goat sale in Mulhall, Ok. which is about 375 miles away from Murfreesboro, Ark. We left about 9:30 that morning, drove to Mulhall, went to the sale, then drove back. Left Mulhall about 7:30 P.M. and got into Murfreesboro about 2 A.M. Sunday morning. I done ALL of the driving hence why I was too tired to write a sermon Sunday morning. The sale was very, very expensive. We figured up on the way home what the owner of the goats made and it was incredible. There were 29 goats sold, for a little over $22,000. Yes, $22,000. The first goat that hit the sale ring sold for $2000! The one I really likes sold for $1250 so it didn't come home with us. I finally bought one for $400 which is now Lucas' goat for the county and state fair. I tried to buy one for Anthony, but it sold for over what I had budgeted. We will now look closer to home for Anthony a goat so that he can show at the county fair too. I will post a picture later as soon as the goat settles down. He is standing chained up to a post in his pen, learning what a collar means and how to lead.
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Post by Paws on May 2, 2007 8:39:31 GMT 12.75
That's terrific! I had a goat for a while. She was technically named Shelby; but when I called the wife at work asking what we should name her new goat she started yelling; "No No!" So her name became No No! She and Mr. Niles, my miracle cat, were best buddies. He would sit with her for hours. You'll get a lot of enjoyment out of that critter; no labor, but pleasure. Wish the boys the best of luck with the birds.
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Post by geiyserq on May 2, 2007 9:10:01 GMT 12.75
Wow! $2000.00 for 1 show goat? ? The poor thing wont bring that much for Grand at the fair will it? I remember my fair days. Made a couple trips to the State fair, but never placed. I never did livestock being from intown. My projects were trapping, photography, and fishing. Goodluck to the boys. If nothing else you'll have some good eating birds for later, and goats milk makes great cheese (unless you bought Billies that is.)
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