[namethatsheep]

Lanark Mart
18th/19th January 2020

Scottish Poultry Show (Chickens, Bantams, Waterfowl, eggs, trade stands, Fancy Fowl Magazine plus breed club events).

This always a grand show with exhibitors from as afar afield as Cornwall, Ireland, Wales, England and f course the whole of Scotland).

Here's a BBC film of 2019 event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ounMjcJG0IQ

You can find here pictures from the 2018 event https://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/multimedia/photo_galleries/2018/scottishnationalpoultryshow2018/

[namethatsheep]

Great show - yet again.

A black bantam Poland was crowned Champion - a stunning bird, very well turned out.

Fancy Fowl will have all the pictures in a forthcoming issue [url=https://www.fancyfowl.com/]https://www.fancyfowl.com/   [/url]

As a personal comment, I really do think that OEG bantams are becoming too broad in the chest and much heavier than those of my youth: some would give Indian Game a good run for their money. No Rumpies seen - alas. I have a soft spot for them.  Serama, Dutch and Sebrights were again well-supported (with some fine Gold specimens of the latter). Delighted to see Geese back in the competitive classes and a stand of the Goose Club. And I was finally won over to Muscovy by a stunning duck, which in my mind rightly won the breed championship.(I'm still at loss regarding drake Muscovy...)