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Last Question, I promise--Filling out entry forms

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Birdcrazy:
On the reply John suggested Janet research APA/ABA youth site for filling out forms for  first timers. Also of interest for new members might be the history of the Ameraucana breed. On that same home page that John mentioned, go over to the right hand column and track down to the bottom of the page for history of AOSB. Click on Ameraucana. It will pull up history of the Ameraucana. Go about half way down in the article and you will be introduced to Mike Gilbert. I have posted before that my interest in Ameraucanas was inspired by those same Wheaten bantams that I saw in shows many years ago. As I have said before enough can never be said in gratitude for all Mike and others have done to not only establish the breed but start and maintain the Ameraucana Breeders Club. Here's my personal THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Mike.

Mike Gilbert:
Thanks Gordon, but it was Don Cable who was the main driving force.    Back in the '70's he was already an experienced fancier, and I was the novice who really didn't know what we were up against at the time.   It is true I bred up the first wheaten bantams (and blue wheaten) from hatchery easter eggers.   I used a single wheaten Old English game hen to establish the color.   Later used a blue that came out of whites from Ralph Brazelton by way of Jerry Segler to cross on the wheatens to produce the blue wheatens.   Later, Wayne Meredith crossed my bantams with large fowl easter eggers to make the LF wheatens and blue wheatens.   I did write the Bantam Standard wording for Ameraucanas with a little editing assistance from Don and from Frank Gary, who was chairman of the ABA Standard committee at the time.   Later, the chair of the APA Standard Committee,  Prof. John Skinner of the University of Wisconsin, was kind enough to submit the APA version of the Ameraucana Standard to me for approval.  I made very few revisions to his work, as he had used the ABA Standard to base his version on.   I'm just glad the breed and club have grown and prospered.

Janet:
I have a question for Mike Gilbert:  Can you explain to me why Ameraucanas are not in the American class? 

Mike Gilbert:

Sure.   I asked the same question at the time it happened.   It's because that is where the APA Standards Committee decided to place them.    I can't say for sure, but I believe the makeup of the committee at the time was such that they were not big fans of this new, upstart breed.   Or maybe they just felt the Ameraucana would have no chance of winning higher awards against established breeds in the American Class.   Whatever.   It makes no difference at this point.   It is what it is. 

Janet:
Who writes the standards for the breeds?  Is it the breed club, or the APA?  I'm just new to this purebred chicken game, but am getting the feeling that the APA is somewhat insular.

I wish they would clean up their SOP.  It is just a mess of typos and wrong page numbers and is poorly organized.  In this computer age, there shouldn't be those kinds of errors.  There is just no excuse for an alphabetical listing in the index to have this error--O, P, B, S, T.

I should have had all my questions answered on either the APA web site or the SOP, but neither gave me any answers that I could find' so I my only option was to torment you kind folk and other internet forums.

Thanks for your patience and your help.

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