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Poultry fancier prepares birds for Farm Show
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
RED LION - In
preparation for the Penn
sylvania F arm Show,
exhibitors have been busy
clipping claves, currying
steers, scrubbing hogs and
shearing sheep.
And some, like Don Flory
of Red Lion R 2, have been
hard at work shampooing
their chickens.
Although Flory has been a
poultry fancier and show
competitor for 25 years, this
is the first year he’s ever
attended the Farm Show
with his collection of bantam
varieties
“These are strictly show
chickens, and it’s strictly a
hobby,” he assures visitors
enchanted by the small
clucking birds.
With a chuckle he insists,
“There’s no way you could
make a living at this ”
The Flory family really
does wash these bantams
before taking them to
poultry shows
“We put them in a con
tainer, like a basin, of warm
water and wet their feathers
thoroughly Then we work
in a regular shampoo or a
mild soap to get them
clean,” explains Don’s wife,
Jackie.
“And then we dr> them
with a hair dryer,” she adds
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Bantam bathing has
presented an occasional
problem from time to time
Jackie Flory remembers a
year long ago, soon after
Don began showing the
birds, when he asked their
small daughters to help him
prepare for a show by
washing the bantams while
he was away at work.
But the two youngsters
didn’t quite understand the
concept that the bantams
heads had to stay out of the
water while the feathers
went in. They immersed the
show birds and to their
dismay drowned them
Flory’s flock of 40 to 50
show bantams includes
White Rocks, White
Rosecombs, White Cochins
and Dark Cornish varieties
While he specializes in the
small chickens, he notes that
most breeds of chickens do
have both bantam and the
standard-size lines.
Most of the year, the flock
is given the run of the back
yard and the adjacent sheep
pens that house the Flory
children’s 4-H project
animals About a hundred
chicks are raised each year,
hatched with a small in
cubator
Over recent years, the
bantam population has been
joined by other feathered
species Jackie acquired her
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