rolohman
Songster
Good morning from upstate New York!
My family has been going to the New York State fair in Syracuse ever since the kids were babies, and are looking forward to heading there in a couple weeks. It's only a 1.5 hour drive for us. We are wanna-be poultry owners, and are building a coop+run right now. In the past, we've seen signs advertising that the birds are for sale, but don't really know how that works and would like to plan for it in terms of knowing how many trips we'd have to take, which days we needed to bring bird transport with us, etc. Does anyone know how that works? I.e., do you have to return at the end of the fair to pick them up, or can you take them home with you on the same day? We are particularly interested in getting pigeons there, since it's hard to find them where we are. But two round trips of 3 hours is a lot of driving. We'd probably go as early as possible to get the best selection - the fair is about 2 weeks long.
Thanks in advance for any experiences you can share about the NYS or other similar fairs!
Note - we have a source for some fun chickens in our next door neighbor - this is mainly for getting a pair of pigeons (that would have separate quarters). Pigeons are much harder to find!
My family has been going to the New York State fair in Syracuse ever since the kids were babies, and are looking forward to heading there in a couple weeks. It's only a 1.5 hour drive for us. We are wanna-be poultry owners, and are building a coop+run right now. In the past, we've seen signs advertising that the birds are for sale, but don't really know how that works and would like to plan for it in terms of knowing how many trips we'd have to take, which days we needed to bring bird transport with us, etc. Does anyone know how that works? I.e., do you have to return at the end of the fair to pick them up, or can you take them home with you on the same day? We are particularly interested in getting pigeons there, since it's hard to find them where we are. But two round trips of 3 hours is a lot of driving. We'd probably go as early as possible to get the best selection - the fair is about 2 weeks long.
Thanks in advance for any experiences you can share about the NYS or other similar fairs!
Note - we have a source for some fun chickens in our next door neighbor - this is mainly for getting a pair of pigeons (that would have separate quarters). Pigeons are much harder to find!