Been to any Fairs ?
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My son is helping some farms ... shear and fit and show their flocks of sheep ..@ New England’s oldest and largest Fair this weekend...Right here in Deerfield NH. Got to get some Fair Food !
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Re: Been to any Fairs ?
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If you want to restore your faith in youth, just get you to an old fashioned county fair. At least here in Wisconsin you are going to run into a bunch of hard working, polite kids who are proud of their animals and can engage in a conversation with an adult and look ya right in the eye while doing it. They can rattle off all the specs of their critter, be it a cow, horse, pig, chicken, goat, sheep, rabbit and so on. Here, many of the local business men pay big money for the kid's animal in the meat auctions and then sometimes give the animal back to the kid.
GO FARM KIDS!
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Re: Been to any Fairs ?
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Yup ..Suffolk’s are huge sheep.....and expensive ( for good ones ). And yes slick shearing doesn’t take as much skill....and time.
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And he’s working on some Hampshires too....then he gets to show them...he usually holds the heads and a helper sets the rear feet.
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My family and I enjoy going to the Potter County Fair near my camp. It's the last free (free parking and admission) county fair in the state. We schedule a family vacation to camp every year during fair week. The 4-H animals and judging are a big hit with everyone. And every year they try to get me to buy a goat at the animal auction. The local gun club maintains a small log cabin on the fairgrounds and we sell memberships and raffle off guns during fair week. We also rent or own a building used as a bingo hall. We use the money made from bingo during fair week to buy fish food for the trout we raise and stock on local streams. During a club meeting last year before fair week we were voting on the very serious issue of whether or not to buy one or two more bags of shelled corn to use as bingo markers.
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Our fair's are all done. I went to one. Love those foot long hot dogs!
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Re: Been to any Fairs ?
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greasy italian sausage and fries here.usually gut shot for a couple days after my visit.
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Re: Been to any Fairs ?
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If you want to restore your faith in youth, just get you to an old fashioned county fair. At least here in Wisconsin you are going to run into a bunch of hard working, polite kids who are proud of their animals and can engage in a conversation with an adult and look ya right in the eye while doing it. They can rattle off all the specs of their critter, be it a cow, horse, pig, chicken, goat, sheep, rabbit and so on. Here, many of the local business men pay big money for the kid's animal in the meat auctions and then sometimes give the animal back to the kid.
GO FARM KIDS!
Zim Yep
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If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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believe that fair is over 150 yrs old right? I don’t know the history Mark. I do know this year’s fair was the 83rd annual. The fair itself may be much older than that, that may be 83 years at his current location or whatever.
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They have a guy doing chainsaw carvings, magic shows, horse pulling, horse jumping, carnival rides, huge 3,000 lb pumpkins...tractor pulls, pig scramble, motor cycle daredevils, and a bunch of other stuff...
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