American Pekin

So that was... best geese and therefore straight up onto championship row um in fact all of those went onto championship row because basically what they do at the welsh national is some clubs will have some form of club show so a regional show or or whatever and as a result of that they're the winner of that uh breed club show go straight onto championship row and then you have best of the rest, if you like.

So to give you an example, Belgians, Pekins and Sramas all had a club show of some form.

So best Belgian, best Srama and best what have I said? Best Pekin.

They all went up onto championship row.

So even though there are many more of them.

And I think that probably comes down to the time of year that early October is still difficult for chickens, particularly for feathery breeds.

So Pekins, for instance, I know it's a really difficult time of year for Pekins.

They kind of almost start molting just before this kind of show period.

If you had one with a heater.

Pekin Duck? Khaki Campbell? That's my rap name.

Khaki Campbell?

Khaki Campbell.

was standing looking at the tree bantams before Dylan had judged them.

And Dylan Ross, he judged the Pekins and put this really nice white Pekin of, which as well, we just recently had on the pod, white Pekin female appears up.

And it looked really nice, but just looks a bit tired, really.

And it's fronted, gone, whatever.

I can't, but I genuinely can't really remember it.

And I remember one of the photos was perhaps, and you'll know this, we'll come on to this in a second, you can have a really good photo of a bird and you can have a shocking photo of a bird and they can show two completely different birds.

And I remember one photo... just was not that great perhaps a bit rushed and then I think there's another photo of it that actually it looked really good but for some reason that photo was never used it was always always the other one and I really felt for Simon because he'd put a lot of effort he obviously had that Pekin Bantams website and that was excellent in all sorts of ways and Pekins were really his thing weren't they to be fair

and

Uh, that was one of Philip George's who, you know, always, always does well with Sebrights.

Um, so yeah, so I think for, for best, you know, champion trio it was between, uh, the Seb- well, I don't know, but for me it would have been between Sebright, the, the Rosecomb and the Pekin.

Really liked the Pekin.

Um, wasn't quite fully through the moult, um, but was a really lovely type.

Did what a lot of Pekins are very good at doing, which is, um, split her chest, uh, when she got onto championship row.

So Pekins quite often when they're a bit stressed, if they're, if they've got a lot of feather, as a good Pekin should have, then, um, their, yeah, their, their chest can, can split.

So, um, which is a shame.

I imagine it's really bloody frustrating, uh, both for the judge, um, but, but also for the owner.

We have customers that are waiting on pins and needles till our ducks start laying again so that they can have their duck eggs again.

And then we have 15 of the Pekin ducks that we ordered You're

planning to keep a few of those, right? I'm

going to keep a few.