shows

sorry, its been a few days since i updated everyone on the animals, we have been getting ready for the shows. 20 ducks were all bathed in shampoo and conditioned to make their feathers nice, then blow dried and kept clean ready for the South Ronaldsay and Burray show.Jedward chicken and mr Frizzle chicken were also bathed and blow dried ready for their big day. Bertie and Eddie the Shetland ponies, were shampooed and polished all ready for their big day. Wednesday morning, the show day, we were all up bright and early to get ready to load the animals. The ducks and chickens were no bother to catch and were penned ready to leave in the van. Bertie and Eddie decieded to be silly and would not let us catch them, so we had to leave for the show without them. Claire won champion waterfowl with her big drake, all the other ducks won lots of 1sts, 2nds and 3rds. Jedward chicken got 2nd and mr frizzle won 3rd place, Vinnie the puppy got 2nd in the gundog class and Brakken got 3rd.Dominmo the ferret won 1st prize in the pet show. County show day,5AM I was very clever!!! or so i thought!! i fed Eddie in the horsebox so he went in no bother, Bertie had other ideas and ran off taking his food bucket with him, no way would he be caught, so we had to leave for the show with just Eddie. Eddie won 1st place in the miniture shetland class, he was very well beahved and we are very proud of him, Vinnie the puppy won 2nd place in the dog show and jake came third, so it was a good day all round. Bertie was very happy to see Eddie when he came home.So thats the shows over for another year, all ducks and chickens have all been put back up to the pond, Bertie and Eddie have been turned out in a big field and me, im ready for a very large glass of wine.