4th Party

Yesterday, Saturday, we had a 4th of July party.  We had lots of people over. 

We had games, fireworks, and food.  It was fun.

This game is called Chicken Plop.  We built a fenced in area.  We drew squares inside it.  Then we released a chicken into the ring and which ever square it pooped in was the winner. 

Everybody got a ticket with a number on it.  I passed them out. 

This the chicken in the ring.  Her name is Sparky Jr. It walked around a bit. 

Everyone was either screaming at it to poop or go to another square. 

The chicken was just trying to figure out how to escape.

This game lasted about 15 seconds.  It was short because chickens poop every 5 seconds.

Sparky Jr. pooped in square 15.  Which was my square.  I won.  Yay.

This is chicken-foot ring-toss. 

You had to land the ring around the chicken foot. 

Here is a close-up.

Yes, these are real chicken feet from our meat chickens. 

BARF

After the games were fireworks. 

We went to bed after 11.  It was awesome.  I was totally exhausted.

Parker

FRIZZ

Remember Frizz?

Frizz.

This is Frizz

and this is Frizz

this is Frizz

and this is Frizz again.

Frizz has been sitting on eggs for 2 months. 

She never hatched an egg. 

So, we ordered her some fertilized eggs.  They came here by mail. 

We stuck them under Frizz.  And then this happened.....

PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP

CHEEP

PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP

CHEEP

PEEEEEEEEEP!!

CHEEEEEEEEP!

Tennis ball.

Frizz is finally a mother. 

She has 9 babies and one egg.  Hopefully the last egg will hatch.

Parker



Rides at the Fair

The rides at the fair are fun.

Shelby and Ellie on a very painful ride.

This is Cole on the very painful ride.

Cole again on the ride (it was painful).

This is Colin on the painful ride. 

Behind him you will see me hiding on the very painful, baby, ride.

Shelby says it was such a failure of a ride it should be thrown in the garbage. 

It was painful.

Collin was the only one who enjoyed it. 

Parker

Pet Show

Today was the pet show at the Co Fair.  First was the poultry show.  Then the cats and dogs.
We entered:
Champ (the dog)
Scruffy (Andie's cat)
Sophie (My cat)
Sparky (Shelby's chicken)
Buff Chicken (my chicken)

Winnie (my chicken)

Dad let mom use his truck to get all the animals to the fair.  We put the cats in a cage in the passenger seat.

Here is Andie sideways, sitting next to the cats in the front seat.

This is me, Shelby, Cole and Champ all crammed into the the back seat.  Cole looks perplexed. 

This is Spark, Buff Chicken, and Winnie the Wyandotte in the back of dad's truck.  

 First was the chicken show.  There were 5 chickens total at the competition. 

Here is Shelby holding Spark the Grand Champion Chicken. 

I am holding my 2 chickens that I entered.  They got second place. 

Next was the domestic pet show.

We had to get our pets and show them to the judges. 

We had to tell the judges about our pets and about ourselves. 

Here is Andie presenting Scruffy. 

Here I am showing Sophie.

We were the only ones that brought cats so one of us had to win.

And the winner is...

Are you excited....

Can you stand the suspense...

The winner is......

SOPHIE!!!!!!!!  Yay for me!

Next was the dog show.

First - here is the competition:

German Shepherd named Raven.

This is Phoenix.  He was stubborn. 

And Shelby with Champ.  The dog that someone shot in the hip.  The dog that was picked up off the streets by Animal Control.  The dog that spent a month on death row at the pound. 

The Trimble County Fair Grand Champion!!!

Hooray for Champ!

In the pet shows you get $15 for first place.  $10 for second.  $5 for third.

Here are the cats on the way home.

Beauty pageants are tiring.

Parker

Trimble Co. Fair

This week there was a fair in town.  We entered some things into the fair. 
Here are some of the things we entered:
Crafts
Roses
Chives
Lemon Balm
Oregano
Basil
Squash
Zuchinni
Green Peppers
Jalapeno Peppers
Brownies
Cookies
Banana Bread
Yeast Rolls
That's everything I can think of. 

We had over 28 entries total.


Here is a picture of us with our stuff.

Every blue ribbon is first place.  Every purple ribbon is best in show.  The fair gives you $4 for every blue ribbon, and $1 for every purple ribbon. 

You also get $3 for red ribbons and $2 for white, but we didn't get any red or white ones.

Parker

New coop

We got a new chicken coop.  Actually it is 8 by 8 shed so I call it the chicken shed.  When we got it we spent some of the day in just playing in it until the cat barfed in it.  That pretty much ended our camp out.  Especially since he barfed up worms.  Parasites that is.  So we canned some of the worms and took him to the vet.  She gave our cats a pill to kill the worms.  So that's better.  Anyways,  We built the inside of the coop to make it suitable for chickens or monkeys.  The monkey exhibit was an accident.  So now the chickens are in their new coop.  Here are pictures of the chickens and the coop.

This is me with my chickens.

For some reason Cole always buttons his shirts all the way to the top.

For some reason Andie always has red eye.

This is Shelby when she conquered Spot - the evil pecking, broody chicken.  Shelby got an award at school for "gentleness" in May.  Dad told her she should give it back. 

This is all the broody hens crammed into one nesting box.  There are 12 nesting boxes.

Parker

Baby chickens

You know how we have those broody hens?  Well three of the eggs finally hatched.  The broody hens are Buff chicken, Krazi, Spot and Frizz.  None of Frizzes eggs have hatched but the others have.  We ordered Frizz some fertilized eggs.  Here are pics.

Here's Shelby's eye balls.

Mommy "Krazi" and one of her babies.

This is the chipmunk baby.  The other 2 are yellow.  He is gold, brown and tan. 

This is "Frizz." We tell my mom if she was a chicken she would look like Frizz.  Not because my mom is cranky.  Because my mom has big hair. 

See the resemblance?

This is what Frizz is thinking right now, "PECK, GRAB, PECK, DESTROY, EVIL, EVIL, EVIL"  If you get near her she pecks you, grabs your skin, and makes grown men jump and run. 

Everyone is afraid of Frizz. 

Cute baby chicks.