This year saw our first visit to a poultry show, rather than dedicated egg show.  Although none of the Leighton Buzzard chickens are show quality themselves, it was great to see some real quality birds at this event.

It was quite a long journey for us but it was a thoroughly enjoyable day.  As well as spending considerable time in the poultry tent, we also enjoyed viewing the various horse jumping events, the cattle and sheep parades, the craft stalls, the produce tent and of course sampling lots of delicious treats in the food tents.  We especially liked the chorizo thins!

Despite performing very well in previous shows, Princess Layer is starting to age a little and her egg quality is not as it once was.  Whereas we could choose from any of her eggs in the past, we are now forced to disregard 40-50% of them due to issues.  That’s not to say they are bad eggs, they still look good and taste delicious but they are not quite show quality.  With the limited selection available to us we decided to concentrate on the single and set of 3 eggs for her, which is reflected in the results.  Ella was moulting so we had no eggs from her, and we’d only got our new hens the week before, so we couldn’t enter too many categories.  However, we’re pleased with the results we got.

Class	Name	Placing	Chicken
117	6 large or bantam	-	Princess Layer
119	3 large any other colour	1st	Princess Layer
120	2 large distinct	3rd	Princess Layer & Henerys
121	1 large any colour	2nd	Princess Layer
128	Large egg contents	2nd	Princess Layer

We’d like to thank the High Wycombe and District Poultry Society for organising the poultry tent at the show, and we look forward to attending their Annual Open Show in November.  Hopefully we have a few more layers by then!