I received my bulletin in the mail today, and it is indeed a special edition. I do have a couple of corrections to the national meet results. Reserve of breed large fowl, Jerry DeSmidt\'s blue cock, was listed as only reserve of variety. And Jerry\'s best of breed blue wheaten bantam was a pullet if memory serves, not a hen.
Also, my wheaten bantam cockerel was not reserve of breed, just reserve of variety, as a pullet went BV. Reserve of breed bantam was the brown red hen pictured on page 14 of the bulletin.
The top two wheaten pullets, by the way, were hatched and mailed to me as baby chicks by John Blehm. Thanks John!
That said, the wheaten cockerel is probably the best male bantam of that variety I have raised in 35-plus years of trying, but for some reason did not show well that day. Possibly because he had never seen humans from that high in the air before; there is something to be said for single level cooping.
I will be setting about four dozen eggs Sunday to hatch right after January 1st. We are in the midst of a blizzard here in west central Wisconsin, and temps will be dipping to around the zero mark tonight.
