Thurston County Fair has started!

[BSAR]

Well, we left with all eight bunnies, everyone except Minnie, around 5:00 and got there around 5:45. We got everybun through vet check and settled into their cages. While we were doing this my mom was working on the tack area.

Unfortunatley she began to feel sick and had to lay down in the car. She threw up and all. We didn't decorate because she was sick. Her boyfriend and my older sister had to come and she ended up going to the hospital. Where she is right now. I didn't take any pics, it was raining, miserably cold, crazy and plus my mom didn't feel good.

I did however take two pics of them on the way up there. I will post those tomorrow evening. And tomorrow there will be tons of pics to share! I am sure FallingStar and BlueSky will contribute more pics and stories!

 

[RexyRex]

Oh no, I'm sorry that your mom is sick! Did she have to stay in the hospital overnight? I hope that she's starting to feel better.



Good Luck at the fair!

 

[BlueGiants]

ray: Hoping your mom is better today. Let us know how she is? Good luck at the fair! :blueribbon:

 

[BSAR]

Thank you everyone! My mom is feeling much better today. She didn't have to stay in the hospital overnight. But she has to have a couple doctor appointments. She hopes to be back with us at fair by Friday.

I am uploading photos right now so then I will tell you all about our first day at TCF 2008!

 

[BSAR]

I woke up this morning at 6:00 so I am soooo tired. This is what my bunnies placed:

4 in her class, Savannah: 1st place, BOB(second year!) Reserve in show!!! I was so excited! This is the first time any of our bunnies have got a best in show thing! Savvy is so good! If only this were ARBA sanctioned, then she would have her third leg.

5? in her class, Willow: Willow didn't get weighed yet, so I will do that tomorrow. Anyway she was a bit chubby and all cuz she has a bit of a dewlap but the judge gave her a second place also! So she did pretty good.

Pet class: Bruce and Autumn: Bruce probably could have been in purebred class because the judge was so easy and didn't dq a single rabbit! Or weigh them except one. But I wanted to make sure his stayed fine. Everyone in pet class got a blue ribbon. The judge said that Autumn had japanse harlequin in her backgrounds and something else, but he wasn't sure. He said that he could see the very light harlequin bands of blue on her. She was one of the top five or ten in the pet class. So Bruce and Autumn got blues.

Overall everyone did amazing! I am extremely proud of Savannah. She beat her half-brother again. My sister and Karlee are going to post about their bunnies. So here are the pics! More to come of Savvy on the table, my sis took those pics.

Bruce on the way to fair.

Savvy and Willow on the way to fair.

Winston on the show table.

Ray.

Willow.

Bruce

Willow on the show table.

Willow on show table agian.

Satin.

Another satin.

A very cute baby Satin.

Baby Rhinelanders.

Baby Rhinelander

Same baby but laying down.

Piglets, mom had ten!

Momma pig.

Baby pigs again.

Momma pig again. She is huge!!

Old fashioned firetruck,I don't know the kids on it.

Horse carriage.

Draft horse that pulls carriage.

Baby pigs again.

Baby pigs again.

Jersey cow.

Line of cows.

Sleeping cow.

Momma and baby. This pic is so cute! The baby is really fuzzy!

More pics tomorrow and hopefully some videos! My sister and Karlee should be posting their pics and all soon.

 

[JadeIcing]

Of course Savvy would place like that! She is PERFECT! Congrats to all the bunnies and you.

 

[Bo B Bunny]

YAY! I love the piccys and congrats on the ribbons!

Zin would love those piglets!

 

[GoinBackToCali]

Zin want's one of those blue butt piglets.. he has some nice hocks on him..



Now I am goin back to my other chattin place..lol

 

[BSAR]

Thankyou! I am not going to post anything tonight, to tired and I have to take a shower. So the pics and info on today will be tomorrow!

 

[BSAR]

Well yesterday at fair there wasn't anything going on except for Fitting and Showing in the afternoon. (Which I hate fitting and showing so I was kind of glad I got to wait a while.) But I also had herds, where you sweep the barn, rake the isles, check on the bunnies, and water them. You can also do the petting table where visitors can pet your rabbit, but you have to do one regular shift of herds before you can do that I think. So right at 8:00 in the morning I had herds.

Bascially after the first hour I just walked around and occasionally swept or raked. It is so boring. That is because you have to do it for two freaking unbeileabely (sp) boring hours. And there isn't much to do, especially when you have two-three other people on herds with you! Its crazy, last year we only had one hour shifts and they were long too! Each exhibitor has to do 6 hours! So I have my others tomorrow and sunday, both times with both Emi and Karlee! At least I won't be as bored!

In the afternoon, I did fitting and showing, I did okay, but most of the time I was with someone else's rabbit. A mini or holland lop, I got second because I thought the bunny was a red but I really had no clue. I also said that Polish had rollback fur when I knew they had flyback, I just spoke before i rethough, boy was I embarrassed. I am such a idiot sometimes. Well anyway today we just had the obstacle course and jumps, I tried Savvy on the obstacle course but she just wanted to chew on the wood. So yeah. Here are some of the near 90 pics I took from today and yesterday. I was trying to get 100 between today and yesterday, i was off by a little over ten. Tomorrow though I will try and get 100! I will add the rest tomorrow. I am just sooo tired.

Mhmm, by the way, my mom is feeling a lot better and she was able to come to fair today!

Savvy and her Reserve In Show ribbon.

Momma turkey and babies.

Baby turkeys.

Savannah

Corner section of our rabbits.

Other section of rabbits.

Karlee and Winston

Beautiful close ups of Winston...

Horses thru the trees.

Lining up. I forgot what class these horses were in. But it was something in English tack.

Kid on a horse. lol

Baby goat on his mama.

Baby hiding behind his mama.

Piglets nursing.

Okay I will put the rest on tomorrow, i am practically falling asleep while the pics are loading.

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

I guess I'll put up my placings:

Mississippi, Pet Class; 1st place; I asked the judge about his ear. It's too noticeable and distracts from his appearence, so no purebred classes. This is his last show - retiring before his 1st birthday! Now he'll just be our stud buck.

Magic, Pet Class; 1st place;He did good. The judge liked his markings

Ray, Mini Rex; 2nd place; He had a broken toe, so otherwise, he may have gotten better....like BOV...idk. The judge said he had really nice flesh and fur condition and had been one of the better animals handled during the first class, or something like that.

Lily, Pet Class; 1st place.

BREEDERS CLASS: For breeders class, I put up Ray; The judge wanted the mothers there, so I brought up Lily. He was looking for the largest jump between mother and baby, and I was in the top three. The Reserve Champ. was my friend with her Rhineland and i got BREEDERS CLASS CHAMPION!!!!!!:blueribbon: I was SO happy! I didn't think I would, but Ray is a good rabbit, and the judge was impressed for REW to come out of Blue. He said to breed Ray lol, as he'll produce nice kits I SO wasn't expecting breeders class champion! I thought I'd just get Honorable Mention (basically the third place )

RABBIT AGILITY: After some debate, I finally did the obstacle course. The obstacles were in this order: teeter totter, three jumps, touch pad (they have to touch it), A-frame, pause pad (pause), table, weave poles, large jump, 2x small jumps.

Magic did fine until the third jump, he struggled, so I placed him over it. Then he just zipped through the rest of the course. I was worried about the weave poles, as he'd never done them before, but I have him trained by directions - much like a horse, he knows stop, left, right, and forward - so that helped to guide him through/over the weave poles (the weaves were on another pole which they had to jump& weave at the same time). I ended up with the quickest time of those that weren't DQ'd, his time was 2 minutes, 18 seconds. The girls who went after me, there times were quicker, but they basically did everything for there rabbit - pulling them over, picking them up, etc. The only thing I did, was place him over one jump halfway, he hopped the rest, and then I encouraged him with kisses (clucks with the tongue) and touching his rear; on the large jump, I said "Just like home, bud. Just like home." And he jumped....:biggrin2:

I am SOOO proud of him...unfortunately no photos of that, as I forgot to give the camrea to Karlee (FallingStar).

Anyway, I will upload photos when I'm not so busy, probably on Monday. I've got to get ready for bed now, have to get up at 5:45 in the morning

Emily

 

[BSAR]

Okay here are the pics. I have more also. I think I will make a few posts right now and then post a few more tons of pics later:biggrin2:

These three pics are of birds. These people rescued or somehow saved these birds and they are now in captivity.

Peregrin Falcon, my favorite bird!

Bald eagle. I wasnt this close, I zoomed in.

Horned owl

Flowers in cowboy hat! What a neat idea!

Huge onions!

More flowers in cowboy hat.

Ferret under blanket. We thought there was only one ferret but then this one popped out, looked around and went back under! It was so cute!

Adorable ferret eating.

Our friend, Therese, doing fitting and showing.

And winning Grand Champion fit and show for seniors!

Karlee's friend Anna, and her horse Daisy.

Our friend Amber, and Red.

Amber and Red.

Amber and Red.

Lined up.

Anna and Daisy lined up. Amber is a senior and was in a different class then Anna, and intermediate or junior.

Lils

Savannah looking mad.

Buttercup.

More to come!

 

[BSAR]

Closeup 1

Close up 2

Schoolbus collection

Awesome drawing/painting of lightning. Sorry about ther reflection of lights and all.

Orca drawing.

More drawings and paintings..

CARVING.

There was an exotics place and they had all sorts of animals, they had these Zodonks, which I like calling them Zonkeys. What do you think they are a cross of?

Adorably cute baby Fallow deer and his yorkshire dog, the dog IS real. I wish I could have gotten one of the fallow deer standing up, maybe i did..........

Cute sleeping bobcats.

Turtle, went along great as the theme this year was turtles!

Hearse, promoting the fairgrounds haunted whatever thing that I want to go to. lol

My favorite cows. Momma and baby. I want them.

ok thats is for now.

 

[BSAR]

Sorry I haven't added the rest of the pics. I have been busy, hanging out with friends and all. Plus it is so warm I don't want to do much. I will try to get them all up by this coming Monday.

 

[BSAR]

Ok here are some more pictures of fair. Sorry it has taken so long to finish getting them up.....

Momma cow

Cute little guys, forgot what they were.

Adorable magpies at petting zoo. I wanted to take them home.

Goat.

Amazing angora goat, I wanted this guy also.

Another goat.

Zedonk

Close up of Zedonk.

Ok wellI have to finish uploading the rest to photobucket so the rest will be up on the forums in couple days.

 

[BSAR]

Rest of the pics will be put on throughout today and tomorrow! So sorry about the delay. Post comments please!!

Bobcats sleeping. I loved these guys!

Tons of Degus' sleeping under their wheel.

Iguana

Alligator, he was sleeping.

Nile Monitor

Lizard thing.

Scaled Lizard

Turtle cake 1

Turtle cake 2

More coming!

 

[BSAR]

My favorite turtle cake.

Dolphin cake.

Going down to the model trains.

Day Four and Five:

Winston

My nephew and Willow.

My nephew holding Willow's ears.

Willow

Willow

My adorable girl.

Buttercup

Ray

More coming later today!