Lovely Chickens at the PNPA October 2013 Poultry Show – photo by Jen Pitino

Everyone has anticipated something or some event in their life, only to find that reality and their imagination do not match up exactly. The imagination can be a dangerous thing – it can give one expectations that are unreasonable and nearly impossible to fulfill. I recently attended my first poultry show in the Vancouver, Washington area (this is about 15 minutes north of Portland, Oregon) and had all sorts of assumptions in my mind of how a large poultry show should be. Today, on the Urban Chicken Podcast I share my top ten observations of attending a poultry show and discuss where reality and fantasy did not match up. Continue reading →

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Just recently the Western Idaho Fair took place here in Boise and lots of kids showed chickens, goats, cows, rabbits, guinea pigs and many other animals. Along with the actual showing of the animals there were several other events. Among the sideshow events was an animal costume contest. Here are photos of some of the contestants (I was unfortunately not able to get photos of all the contestants).

Some of these costumes are hilarious. Some of these costumes must have taken hours of work by the owners to get the animals to tolerate wearing them. Congratulations to all of the contestants for a job well done!