dhw
04-02-2010, 11:52 AM
Hey everyone,
A little history here... When I was in middle/high school back in Wisconsin I had quite an assortment of good quality birds mainly cornish bantams and call ducks. As a kid I did the best I could with them and my parents were awesome about carting me around the country to shows. When I went to college I was forced out unfortunately. After college and getting married we moved away from the city and I spent 5 years riding a very fun wave. This time it was mainly the runners and indies. Then it happened, the .com crash! It forced me to make a drastic move to a much more populated area and again to disperse the flock. I have spent the last 5 years in 4 different houses in various parts of the country due to work moving us around. Those days are over and we are working on buying a permanent house with some acreage. If everything goes through we will be in a place that will once again allow me to keep some birds.
Now the hard part will be to decide what to keep and what to not go for >.< Of course I sold my incubators and such so we wouldn't have to keep moving them so it will be a slow process getting things going again.
Now my questions... When I got out last time that farm bill was just going through congress... The one requiring registration and such. I didn't keep up on it at all. What are the details on it? What has it done to the hobby in general and the shows? What have show numbers and competition been like? We will probably have one type of bantam and maybe the array of bantam ducks. If I get my way there will be aylesburies and/or rouens around as well but I am not counting on that just yet.
Just need to get caught up on the state of the game and what all has changed since I left.
A little history here... When I was in middle/high school back in Wisconsin I had quite an assortment of good quality birds mainly cornish bantams and call ducks. As a kid I did the best I could with them and my parents were awesome about carting me around the country to shows. When I went to college I was forced out unfortunately. After college and getting married we moved away from the city and I spent 5 years riding a very fun wave. This time it was mainly the runners and indies. Then it happened, the .com crash! It forced me to make a drastic move to a much more populated area and again to disperse the flock. I have spent the last 5 years in 4 different houses in various parts of the country due to work moving us around. Those days are over and we are working on buying a permanent house with some acreage. If everything goes through we will be in a place that will once again allow me to keep some birds.
Now the hard part will be to decide what to keep and what to not go for >.< Of course I sold my incubators and such so we wouldn't have to keep moving them so it will be a slow process getting things going again.
Now my questions... When I got out last time that farm bill was just going through congress... The one requiring registration and such. I didn't keep up on it at all. What are the details on it? What has it done to the hobby in general and the shows? What have show numbers and competition been like? We will probably have one type of bantam and maybe the array of bantam ducks. If I get my way there will be aylesburies and/or rouens around as well but I am not counting on that just yet.
Just need to get caught up on the state of the game and what all has changed since I left.