We got the chickens into the show last week OK but we were forced to rebel a little. Apparently the rules say that you can not leave food or water containers in the cages from thursday evening until after judging on Friday afternoon. This is supposed to avoid the risk of the judges recognising individual food containers and this affecting their decisions.
This may or may not be OK for the cage birds but to my mind it is not OK for poultry, so we left food and water in the cages with our birds as did several of the other poultry exhibitors.
We didn't win anything although the dorking pullet got a fourth but as our chickens were all only part grown, we did not even expect that.
After we were all let back into the show room, we collared the judge who was very obliging and was spending time with all the exhibitors who wanted to see him.
He was very obliging and went over each of our birds with us saying what was right and what was wrong about each one of them. Basically he thought that all our birds were very good but to young for tis year. He would have liked a bit more silver on the hackles of the dorking and a few of the feathers on the neck of the andalusian had slight smudges in the pencilling but that was all the faults that he could find so we were very pleased.
A very pleasant morning. Plenty of birds about and Liz even briefly spotted a water rail before it dived off and hid from the rest of us.
There was however a little auk just off Scapa pier, quite close in to the pier along with several long tailed ducks, guillemots and assorted other birds along with a seal feeding on shoals of baby herring in the bay.
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