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Bluebonnet Classic in College Station Texas
Paul:
The Bluebonnet Classic was held at College Station, Texas on Jan. 2, 2016.
We had an excellent Ameraucana show with 6 exhibitors showing 60 large fowl in the open show, and 1 exhibitor showing 7 head of whites in the bantam open show. Rip Stavely from Florida judged the large fowl.
Whites were the largest class with 26 head shown by two ABC members. Ernie Haire had BV on his white cock which also won RB. The RV was a hen shown by Diane Goddard. Sixteen head were shown in the black class by 3 ABC members. The BV was a cock shown by Paul & Angela Smith. He also was selected BB, best AOSB and Reserve large fowl of the show. The black hen shown by Paul & Angela was RV. Two ABC members showed 11 blues. The BV was a pullet shown by Paul & Angela. They also had RV on a cockerel. There were five head of splash shown by 3 ABC members. Aaron Hickson had the BV and RV on two splash pullets. There were only two blue wheatens shown by Paul & Angela Smith. Their cockerel was selected BV and pullet was RV.
In the open bantams Ernie Haire showed 7 head of whites. One of Ernie’s pullets won BV and BB, his cockerel was RV and RB. Soon there should be several more exhibitors with Ameraucana bantams, due to the amount of interest expressed in them.
There were 6 head of Jr. bantams shown by 2 juniors. Madison Buddle showed a black hen which was selected BV and RB. The other 5 head were EEL’s. They were judged by Troy Jones. Troy also judged the 8 head of large fowl shown by 3 juniors. One white a pullet shown by Kendall Gerfers won BB and best AOSB. One EEL was shown. Matthew Smith showed the other six head. Matthew’s BV blue pullet won RB and res. AOSB. His black pullet was selected BV and his cockerel RV. He also exhibited the only blue wheatens a pullet.
This was the Bluebonnet Classic’s 25th show and our first time to show at it. It was a very well run large show with a total of 1919 birds entered from Texas exhibitors. Photos of the BV and RV Ameraucanas will be posted ASAP.
Don:
Congratulations to all of the winners! It sounds like it was a great show and it's great to see the whites represented so strongly. This color really has the chance to compete well and get more folks involved with the breed. (I hope Paul has a good number of white breeding pens next year too.) And it is especially good to see the AMs going beyond BB in a show with this many entries. I am glad to see many judges are beginning to notice the quality in the breed. And thanks to a few outlaws, its nice to see bantam Ameraucanas represented outside of their stronghold. Good Job and good luck next at Fort Worth.
Ernie Haire:
There are a few of us who live in Texas that have recently gotten Bantams. I have Whites and have been searching for Blacks. I have located one set of Blacks and hope to get them next month.
I know that Peggy Taylor has Wheatens and Blue Wheatens, and Max Strawn has some Wheatens or Blue Wheatens. Hopefully, we can work on breeding the birds that we have this year and get more people working with Bantams.
Ernie Haire
Poultry 2XL
Arp, Texas
Birdcrazy:
Congratulations to all the winners at the Bluebonnet Classic last weekend. As Don stated, it is great to see the judges consistently noticing the Ameraucana breed when placing entries. This is truly a tribute to breeders striving to improve the quality within our breed. Thank you all! Another thank you to Paul on another detailed show report results on another ABC show.
Spencer Crouse:
Congratz everyone!
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