Fair chicken showing goes virtual and...stuffed
Poultry Judge Emmett Wild questions chicken exhibitors Paige Ball (center) and Jeslan Valdez (right) while a second group of FFA exhibitors waits during the first day of virtual poultry exhibitions at the Grant County Fair.
CHARLES H. FEATHERSTONE/COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD
Othello FFA student Jeslan Valdez holds a stuffed chicken that she readies to “show” during the poultry judging at this year’s Grant County Fair. The stuffed animals are used in place of live chicken in order to prevent the spread of avian influenza.
Paige Ball, left, and Jeslan Valdez demonstrate on stuffed birds how they would hold their chickens to poultry judge Emmett Wild during the first day of the 2022 Grant County Fair.
Poultry judge Emmett Wild grills FFS students Shay Saenz and Sydney Garza on poultry knowledge during the first day of virtual poultry showing at this year’s Grant County Fair.
A stuffed chicken on display showing how fair organizers would like to see this year’s “birds” displayed. The stuffed chicken and the photographs are substitutes for live birds, which were kept at home this year to prevent the spread of avian influenza.
MOSES LAKE — Poultry judge Emmett Wild stands across the table from the two young women in FFA jackets. He looks serious, as do the two teenage exhibitors, even as they each tightly grip a stuffed chicken.
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