A boy? and RiverRockGoods!

Hey there! Since I haven't been on in a while there is a lot of stuff I want to post.

We(my sister and I) went to a poultry meeting last night. We took 9 chickens for the "chicken man" to check out for us. We took Mim, Gwen, Pink, Blue, Green, Angie, Ravinar, Sayna, and Veratess. Here's what we found out.

Veratess is a boy! Unfortunately, he's not a very pretty one. His comb and crest are not very good and his toe spacing it awful. Silkies have 5 not 4 toes and the spacing is very important.

I was right about my Buff Brahma bantams' genders. Pink is a girl. Blue and Green are boys. They all have really good pea combs though. And Pink has a really good Asiatic head shape.

Gwen is a splash. Splash is a variety. When you breed for blue chickens there is a black, a blue, and a splash gene. You want blue, black is fine, splash is the most undesired. She can still show in Barnyard mix though.

Angie might be a boy. That would be awful, so I hope not. The "chicken man" says maybe. She's an Ancona and they have such large combs that you can't really tell yet.

Mim is fine. She's still going to get new feathers twice more since she's so young.

*I know a lot of this is confusing Auntie, but if you have any questions about all this chicken talk, post them on "Chick-a-doodle".

Yesterday morning we went to a 4h Marketplace meeting(it was 5 hours though!). At fair my sister and I will have a booth to sell our products for an hour. Other kids will do this too. We came up with our logo and slogan for. I'll post a picture later. We came up with, "RiverRockGoods!" written really cool as our name/logo. Our slogan is "Maa! Cluck! You're in luck!" What do you think? We'll be selling my goat milk soap and eggs. And maybe cross stitches of chickens and goats and painted river rocks. The "chicken man" also wants us to sell little day old chicks, but we're still working on the details.

We're working on buying a goat share so we'll have some goat milk. I can't wait to start making soap!

Have a great day!
kk