Felix’s friend Caroline really wanted to be involved in fairs and animals and such but lives in town in a rented house where you can’t have animals and her dad is not really involved with the whole animal thing so we’ve sort of pulled her along with our involvement with fairs – except for this one this year since Felix decided to take a break. Luckily, Caroline wanted to do the fair enough that she entered without Felix.
Last fall after the Evergreen Fair, Caroline bought two chickens (Jersey Black Giants) and they’ve been staying with our flock. She entered them into the Silvana Fair – first fair of the season - but didn’t do as well as she would have liked. So she invited a local chicken show-er/judge/owner to our coop and let her pick which ones she thought might do better in the Stanwood Fair. She selected our Buff (Siobhan), Rhode Island White (Trouble), and Barred Rock (Kiki) and told her to pick the best two. In the end, Caroline decided on the Buff and the Rock since they are a heavier breed and ours are pretty good sized. 
Side note: if the animal has a name, it doesn’t get eaten. It was the deal we made with the kids.
Well, after all the judging was done, Caroline and the chickens didn’t end up with a rosette (the best) but instead got a blue for the Buff (Fit and Show) and a red for the Rock (Type). Not great but not bad.
However, during the fair the 4H kids are encouraged to handle and show the public their animals. While Caroline was showing Siobhan and letting kids pet her, the pic of that made it into our local paper. 
Here’s the link:
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110806/NEWS01/708069931/0/frontzoom
THAT’S pretty darn exciting in my opinion. Congrats!!
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