FOUL BLOW CAN'T STOP FOWL SHOW FARM KIDS CREATE FAKE BIRDS.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer LANCASTER - Rows of chicken coops sit above fresh wood shavings in the poultry barn, but because of the exotic Newcastle disease Newcastle disease, pneumoencephalitis, acute viral disease of domestic poultry. Newcastle disease is characterized by sneezing, coughing, and nervous behavior. Affected birds may show tremors, circling, falling, twisting of the head and neck, or complete paralysis. quarantine, the coops will remain empty for the duration of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fair. To ease children's disappointment, fair officials created an alternative competition in four categories: chicken sculpture, funky chicken "Funky Chicken" can refer to two different things.
The chicken alternatives will be on display in the Kidz Zone section of the fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. . Funky chicken sculptures were created from many kinds of materials, including felt, papier-mache, pipe cleaners and gourds. There's even a metal chicken with horseshoe horseshoe, narrow plate, commonly of iron or steel, shaped to fit a horse's hoof and attached to the hoof by nailing it to the inner edge of the horny wall of the hoof. feet. The chicken sculptures were judged on their resemblance to the real thing. They were produced by children who couldn't enter their live birds in competition because of the extremely contagious Newcastle disease. Young chicken ranchers, who lost money by not being able to show their poultry this year, competed traditionally only in the portion in which they answered questions about chickens and pigeons. David Thomson, poultry barn superintendent, was disappointed for the children but predicted things would be back to normal next year. ``Poultry will be back here next year. Most of the quarantine has been lifted for the valley,'' Thomson said. ``We usually have 400 or 500 pigeons and about 350 to 400 chickens. So we usually have a really good show.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition only) Kirsten Rasmussen couldn't enter her bantam Bantam Former city and sultanate, Java. It was located at the western end of Java between the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean. In the early 16th century it became a powerful Muslim sultanate, which extended its control over parts of Sumatra and Borneo. game chicken in the fair because of a poultry quarantine, so she created a copy that won first place among chicken sculptors 5 to 8 years old. (2 -- ran in AV edition only) David Thomson, poultry barn superintendent at the Antelope Valley Fair, shows sculptures and pictures children created when they couldn't enter their real chickens and pigeons this year because of a poultry quarantine. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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