Our black Ameraucana cockerel from Paul & Angela Smith was Reserve Class Champion today at the show! We are thrilled with that placement!!!! Two of the six total LF Ameraucana entry were Easter Eggers....One was a \"Lemon Blue\" hen entered as Blue Wheaten, the other was a Buff-ish swirly colored cock entered as Wheaten.....Both were DQ\'d....The owner was very unhappy and took it out on me, my husband and everyone else in arms length....I eventually got her over to the secretaries table to the APA Standards book and we read over our standard and the descriptions of wheaten and blue wheaten..... She was slightly calmer......I did my very best to stay cool and calm as she berated us about why her birds were DQ\'d......I am not a cool and calm person by nature, and being politically correct also escapes me on most occasions...
I am quite positive many of you have been handling a similar situation to this for years----How do you do it??