August 18, 2024 • 9 mins
From the IHeart Podcast Parlor at the Allen County Fair, Russ Decker is joined by Sophie and her chicken Shadow to talk about how their competition went!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, and welcome back to ACF four one one,
our podcast from the old Milking Parlor at the Allen
County Fair. It's now the iHeart Podcast Parlor and it's
sponsored by Nutrient and I'm Russ Ecker, Nutrient's host.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Also want to.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Thank our engineer tonight, Alex Wolf, who's making us sound good.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And we have a couple of special guests in our studio.
We have Sophie Hi. Sophie Hi, and your chicken is Shadow, right, correct? Shadow,
Welcome to the studio. He's not saying anything. Does you
know about cow bells? Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I got him?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
All right? He knows that means dinner time?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Oh boy?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, all right, So you've got you've got a ribbon.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Tell me how you won the ribbon yesterday and showmanship.
I made it into the top few and I placed
fourth for knowing all about my chicken?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So you know all about your chicken.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, there's a few questions that I missed, but I
got most of them, right, would you miss ah? I
don't really know.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So now before we went on, before we started recording,
you gave us some important.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Behind the scenes information.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So besides Shadow, you said you have about fifty chickens
at home.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, and you have some of.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
The chickens that are in your dad's bathroom.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, they're hatching right now.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, so you don't put them in the in the
girls bathroom, they go to your dad's bathroom.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, okay, So that's that's pretty special that he would
let you do that.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, that's a good dad. Right well yeah, well yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh, now he wants to be in dad's bathroom, that's
what he's saying.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I think he want wants to be in there so
he can fight the baby chicks.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh okay, So one of the judges ask you with
the chicken contest, what kinds of questions.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Do they ask you?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
They ask you about the different types of cumb some
of the body parts, the parts of the oh, the
parts of the wing, A few parts of the body,
the parts of the head.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
What's the comb?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The comb is the big red part right here on
top of his head.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Cool, that's a comb because it's got the little teeth
things are their teeth?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The teeth, the points, the points, Yeah, they're called points.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Okay. And how many points does shadow.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Have hold on? Eight?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So do they all have about the same or or
is it more important to get more point or or
does it matter?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I don't think it matters much. Really sleeps.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So the so you finished the fourth place? The Shadow
looks like a champion to be. So can she can
Shadow come back and compete again?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh? Yeah, you can. Actually I showed him last year too.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
How did you last year?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Good? He got called back a few times.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
He did. So does he have his own cell phone
that they could call it? No?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
No, no, What I mean by that, I mean the
judge asked him to come back. That way he could
hopefully come into the finals and hopefully go to Champions
of Champions.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Cool. So you think Shadow get calls this year? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, I showed him this morning. He didn't get called
back because he didn't really look like a coaching, but
he is one. That's something because the coaches are usually
more puffy in the front and the back, and he's
a little small.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So he's got a small is that like? So the
front's called a combe? What do you call the back?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The tail feathers?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Tail feathers? Okay, all right, do you have to like
groom those?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well you have to give him a bath?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
A shadow like baths. No, so he were the word
bath and then he started talking, Yeah, she's going to
give you a bath.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So, what's what's the funniest thing any of the chickens
have ever done?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
One time, a long time ago, this is probably two
years ago. Now, I had this chicken. She was a bantam,
she was white. We called her Cinderella the golf cart
chicken because she would ride on us with our golf cart.
And then one day I came out to do to
feed all of them, and she laid an egg on me.
(04:31):
You Yeah, I was holding her and she laid an
egg on me.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's only happened once.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's happened quite a few times now. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So what do you do with those eggs when they
lay them on you like that?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Uh? Take them inside to the kitchen and put them
in the egg curtain, put them in the egg cart.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, those seemed like they should be like Easter eggs.
It would be really special and you'd want to do
you So, do you like eggs?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, they're good.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
What's your favorite way to have eggs?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Uh? Gepp eggs probably really yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Okay, so what do you so? What kind of chicken
is shadow?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
He's a black coaching vandam.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And do you have other types? Uh?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Yeah, right now in the barn, I have a jersey.
Giant can pull it. She's five months old. She's huge.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So how many different kinds of chicken are there? Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
There are hundreds?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Really, because I only know like barbecue and crunchy.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Is that not right? Is that?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I mean there's wine not.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Shadow? Didn't like that. Shadow? Do you want to be
bar cute or crunchy either? As Mike fright?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Okay, then you know if you do a good job, Shoto,
we got cookies.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh I like that.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We got cookies, but you can have one that says
sugars or a Spencer sugar shop. Have you ever had
this before? He has? All right, that's cool. So what
do you do with the rest of the fairy? Your
your your competition?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You know you've got you've got your ribbons and now
you're just like take naps the rest of the week.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
And oh well, I still gotta take care of them
every day.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, so what's what's what do you have to do
take care of a chicken on a.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
On a regular basis. You have to feed them water.
Sometimes you have to give them a bath if they're
really dirty.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I have to do that with my meat birds, and
sometimes you have to clean up their chicken droppings thence
here on the table right there.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah. So do you have any more competition yet this week? No?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But on Thursday I have the meatbird auction, so we
have a.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Livestock sale right yeah, and that's Thursday night, right, Thursday
afternoon and Thursday evening I.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Believe is chickens and rabbits. Yep, four o'clock. Thank you.
So do you have a lot of people lined up
to bid on your bit on Shadow?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh? Well, Shadow is not a meat shirt.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
He's not a meat bird. No, he's a vegetarian.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, basically.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Okay, all right, so so who you selling? Who's who
you're gonna have at the auction?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
My meatbirds are in the barn right now? How many two?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
All right? And you'd like to bidding to start at? What?
One thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I feel like that's a little much.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh that's a little much. Yeah, so like five dollars? No,
I guess that was way too long, right, Shadow wasn't
gonna accept that bit. Well, good luck with the auction
on Thursday. I hope you do really well.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, are you going to be in that scramble thing
on Saturday, so you know.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
What that is.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh yeah, I'm not gonna do it, but my little
sister Phoebe is. Yeah, we've been training in the barn.
We've been going around and catch we've been going around
and catching all the chains.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
She does? Does she do pretty good?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Okay, because I heard that's that can be a pretty
tough competition.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah. Before Oh yeah, I had to catch sheep.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Really shadow, I didn't ask you any questions. Man, he
talks a lot, doesn't he. Yeah, well he's really proud
of his ribbon. You see your ribbon.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay, Well, good luck really okay, Hey I got noises too. Well,
good luck at the sale on Thursday, and good luck
with your sister and the scramble. Thank you, it'll be
fun and thanks for joining us. All right, and that's
(09:32):
gonna do it for this episode of a c F
four one one. We'll be back.
All right, and welcome back to ACF four one one,
our podcast from the old Milking Parlor at the Allen
County Fair. It's now the iHeart Podcast Parlor and it's
sponsored by Nutrient and I'm Russ Ecker, Nutrient's host.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Also want to.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Thank our engineer tonight, Alex Wolf, who's making us sound good.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And we have a couple of special guests in our studio.
We have Sophie Hi. Sophie Hi, and your chicken is Shadow, right, correct? Shadow,
Welcome to the studio. He's not saying anything. Does you
know about cow bells? Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I got him?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
All right? He knows that means dinner time?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Oh boy?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, all right, So you've got you've got a ribbon.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Tell me how you won the ribbon yesterday and showmanship.
I made it into the top few and I placed
fourth for knowing all about my chicken?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So you know all about your chicken.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, there's a few questions that I missed, but I
got most of them, right, would you miss ah? I
don't really know.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So now before we went on, before we started recording,
you gave us some important.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Behind the scenes information.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So besides Shadow, you said you have about fifty chickens
at home.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, and you have some of.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
The chickens that are in your dad's bathroom.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, they're hatching right now.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, so you don't put them in the in the
girls bathroom, they go to your dad's bathroom.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, okay, So that's that's pretty special that he would
let you do that.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, that's a good dad. Right well yeah, well yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh, now he wants to be in dad's bathroom, that's
what he's saying.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I think he want wants to be in there so
he can fight the baby chicks.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh okay, So one of the judges ask you with
the chicken contest, what kinds of questions.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Do they ask you?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
They ask you about the different types of cumb some
of the body parts, the parts of the oh, the
parts of the wing, A few parts of the body,
the parts of the head.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
What's the comb?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The comb is the big red part right here on
top of his head.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Cool, that's a comb because it's got the little teeth
things are their teeth?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The teeth, the points, the points, Yeah, they're called points.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Okay. And how many points does shadow.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Have hold on? Eight?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So do they all have about the same or or
is it more important to get more point or or
does it matter?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I don't think it matters much. Really sleeps.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So the so you finished the fourth place? The Shadow
looks like a champion to be. So can she can
Shadow come back and compete again?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh? Yeah, you can. Actually I showed him last year too.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
How did you last year?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Good? He got called back a few times.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
He did. So does he have his own cell phone
that they could call it? No?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
No, no, What I mean by that, I mean the
judge asked him to come back. That way he could
hopefully come into the finals and hopefully go to Champions
of Champions.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Cool. So you think Shadow get calls this year? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, I showed him this morning. He didn't get called
back because he didn't really look like a coaching, but
he is one. That's something because the coaches are usually
more puffy in the front and the back, and he's
a little small.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So he's got a small is that like? So the
front's called a combe? What do you call the back?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The tail feathers?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Tail feathers? Okay, all right, do you have to like
groom those?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well you have to give him a bath?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
A shadow like baths. No, so he were the word
bath and then he started talking, Yeah, she's going to
give you a bath.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So, what's what's the funniest thing any of the chickens
have ever done?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
One time, a long time ago, this is probably two
years ago. Now, I had this chicken. She was a bantam,
she was white. We called her Cinderella the golf cart
chicken because she would ride on us with our golf cart.
And then one day I came out to do to
feed all of them, and she laid an egg on me.
(04:31):
You Yeah, I was holding her and she laid an
egg on me.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's only happened once.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's happened quite a few times now. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
So what do you do with those eggs when they
lay them on you like that?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Uh? Take them inside to the kitchen and put them
in the egg curtain, put them in the egg cart.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, those seemed like they should be like Easter eggs.
It would be really special and you'd want to do
you So, do you like eggs?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, they're good.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
What's your favorite way to have eggs?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Uh? Gepp eggs probably really yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Okay, so what do you so? What kind of chicken
is shadow?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
He's a black coaching vandam.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And do you have other types? Uh?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Yeah, right now in the barn, I have a jersey.
Giant can pull it. She's five months old. She's huge.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So how many different kinds of chicken are there? Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
There are hundreds?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Really, because I only know like barbecue and crunchy.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Is that not right? Is that?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I mean there's wine not.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Shadow? Didn't like that. Shadow? Do you want to be
bar cute or crunchy either? As Mike fright?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Okay, then you know if you do a good job, Shoto,
we got cookies.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh I like that.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We got cookies, but you can have one that says
sugars or a Spencer sugar shop. Have you ever had
this before? He has? All right, that's cool. So what
do you do with the rest of the fairy? Your
your your competition?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
You know you've got you've got your ribbons and now
you're just like take naps the rest of the week.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
And oh well, I still gotta take care of them
every day.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, so what's what's what do you have to do
take care of a chicken on a.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
On a regular basis. You have to feed them water.
Sometimes you have to give them a bath if they're
really dirty.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I have to do that with my meat birds, and
sometimes you have to clean up their chicken droppings thence
here on the table right there.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah. So do you have any more competition yet this week? No?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But on Thursday I have the meatbird auction, so we
have a.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Livestock sale right yeah, and that's Thursday night, right, Thursday
afternoon and Thursday evening I.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Believe is chickens and rabbits. Yep, four o'clock. Thank you.
So do you have a lot of people lined up
to bid on your bit on Shadow?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh? Well, Shadow is not a meat shirt.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
He's not a meat bird. No, he's a vegetarian.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, basically.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Okay, all right, so so who you selling? Who's who
you're gonna have at the auction?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
My meatbirds are in the barn right now? How many two?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
All right? And you'd like to bidding to start at? What?
One thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I feel like that's a little much.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh that's a little much. Yeah, so like five dollars? No,
I guess that was way too long, right, Shadow wasn't
gonna accept that bit. Well, good luck with the auction
on Thursday. I hope you do really well.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, are you going to be in that scramble thing
on Saturday, so you know.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
What that is.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh yeah, I'm not gonna do it, but my little
sister Phoebe is. Yeah, we've been training in the barn.
We've been going around and catch we've been going around
and catching all the chains.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
She does? Does she do pretty good?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Okay, because I heard that's that can be a pretty
tough competition.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah. Before Oh yeah, I had to catch sheep.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Really shadow, I didn't ask you any questions. Man, he
talks a lot, doesn't he. Yeah, well he's really proud
of his ribbon. You see your ribbon.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay, Well, good luck really okay, Hey I got noises too. Well,
good luck at the sale on Thursday, and good luck
with your sister and the scramble. Thank you, it'll be
fun and thanks for joining us. All right, and that's
(09:32):
gonna do it for this episode of a c F
four one one. We'll be back.
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