Final poultry event of the summer at Fermanagh

After a number of very suc-cessful agricultural shows this summer, the final one with a poultry section was held last Wednesday.

The Fermanagh County Show in Enniskillen is a two-day event and very popular attraction.

The poultry show attracts ex-hibitors from the county and surrounding areas.

Brian King, from Ballymena, kindly did the honours of judging this event having exhibited a range of poultry and waterfowl over a number of years along with his wife Margaret.

Having both judged and exhibited at this event over the years, I always loved attending the County Fermanagh Show, where we always receive a warm welcome from the hard working organisers and enjoy all the other competitions, trade stands and exhibitions.

This year’s poultry show had some wonderful entries with team Adams and McLaren taking top awards with an absolutely fantastic Gold Brahma cockerel, with the Reserve Show Champion award going to James Weatherup’s standard Poland female.

This show always has a prize for the best County Fermanagh entry and this year it went to Richard Ogle’s Indian Game.

Huge congratulations to the org-anisers, exhibitors and judge for putting on a wonderful display

of yesteryear poultry and water-fowl.

My thanks to Ryan McLaren for his great photographs of the show.

Below is a list of the top poultry show results:

Show Champion: Adams & McLaren, Brahma Male.

Reserve Show Champion: J Weatherup, Poland Female.

Best Large Heavy Soft Feather: Adams & McLaren, Brahma Male.

Best Large Light Soft Feather: J Weatherup, Poland Female.

Best Light Breed Bantam: J Weatherup, Welsummer Female.

Best Heavy Breed Bantam: Kerr family, Clogher Valley Poultry, Wyandotte Bantam Male.

Best True Bantam: Adams & McLaren, Gold Dutch Male.

Best Light Breed Duck & Best Waterfowl: Adams & McLaren, Indian Runner Drake.

Best Heavy Breed Duck: Adams & McLaren, Pekin Duck.

Best Bantam Duck: Kerr family, Clogher Valley Poultry, White Call Duck.

Best Large Game: Richard Ogle, Indian Game.

Best Bantam Game: Adams & McLaren, Brown Red OEG Male.

Best Junior Exhibit: Kerr family, Call Duck.

Best Fermanagh Bird (confined to exhibitors from Fermanagh): Richard Ogle, Indian Game.

With the local summer shows concluded, the attention will turn

to the poultry fairs over the next

few weeks. Hope to see you all there.