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South Central District Meet-1st Self Blue large fowl qualifying meet Nov. 17-18
Paul:
Only 5 days left to enter the South Central District ABC meet, the first qualifying self blue meet and the national APA meet in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The show is called North American Poultry Breeders. The show is Nov. 17 & 18. If you raise large fowl self blue Ameraucanas, the ABC could use your support if you are an adult member of the APA. We must have 5 APA members show in each of the four classes C, H, K, P, and a minimum of five more self blue of any sex for a total of 25 head.
Don:
I hope Paul doesn't mind me spilling the beans, But just talked with He or Angela by messenger....... And the numbers are there at the Shawnee show for the First Qualifying meet for LF Self Blue. Congrats to all those showing to be a part of this history for the Breed.
Lindsay Helton:
Thanks for sharing! Sad that we were unable to be there. That is great news!
Don:
Thanks again to all those that made the Qualifying meet in Shawnee a success. Obviously they would not have been able to pass the test without all of your hard work and effort to get the entries there.
Now, so Who is up for a trip next fall to Columbus Oh for the Second Qualifying meet???? It seems that the APA has now decided that the next test has to be there. The "Ohio" is normally heald the second weekend of Nov. Maybe by then they can learn to spell the name of the breed.
Paul:
The SC district meet was held at the North American Poultry Breeders Show in Shawnee, OK. on November 17 & 18, 2018 which was the APA national meet. We had a very successful show with 17 exhibitors from 4 states exhibit 88 head in the open large fowl show. Amanda Stallman judged the LF open show.
Nine blue were shown with Max Strawn winning BV on a pullet and RV on a cockerel which had previously won BB and higher in several shows. Two blue wheaten pullets were shown with Kyle Zimdars winning BV and Paul & Angela Smith RV. Two splash pullets were shown with Max Strawn winning BV on a pullet. The other one was DQ due to yellow foot bottoms. One wheaten pullet was shown into BV by Paul & Angela Smith. Fourteen whites were shown with Jerry DeSmidt winning BV on a cock and Sherry Klaus RV on a pullet. Twenty-three black were shown with Max Strawn winning BV and BB on a cockerel. Shannon Rowe won RV and RB on a hen.
A special thanks to (exhibitor list order) Sherry Klaus, Shannon Rowe, Chris Cross, Paul & Angela Smith, Matt Cooperrider, Lorri Story, Howard Story and Dakota Chickens (Dakota Weimar) for meeting the self blue required minimum numbers for our first qualifying meet. The correct requirements are we have a minimum of 5 in each of the four classes (C, H, K, P) and an additional 5 head for a total of 25 head shown by a minimum of 5 APA members. There were six cocks shown with Paul & Angela Smith placing first. Fourteen hens were shown with Dakota Chickens (Dakota Weimar) placing first and RV. Five Cockerels were shown with Chris Cross placing first. Twelve pullets were shown with Sherry Klaus placing first and BV. We have successfully met the requirements. Amanda did approve the self blue for recognition but did comment we need to work on consistency and color especially in the males. Saturday evening after the APA banquet and APA directors meeting, I managed to talk with John Monaco who replaced Walt Leonard. A quote from John “We have tightened up the rules.” Walt told me the ABC would need both an APA district meet and an APA national meet as self blue qualifying meets and that it didn’t matter which was first. Whichever worked best for the breed club would be fine. The written rules state that the national APA would be the second qualifying meet. The reason is, so the APA directors could see how much improvement has been made within one years time. This requires us to make the APA national meet at Columbus, Ohio, mid November, 2019 for our second qualifying meet, so the APA directors can go through the birds and either approve or reject them as being recognized. I had the opportunity to go through the self blue entries with district 3 director and well known Judge Tim Bowles on Sunday morning before coop out. Tim has raised self blue d’Anvers bantams for 31 years giving him much experience and knowledge of the self blue variety. Only black should be used to cross with self blues to breed from splits. Preferably blacks with slate shanks rather than black shanks. The silver gene will most likely be in blacks with slate shanks, also slate shanks is the correct color for self blues according to the proposed description. Blue should not be crossed with the self blue as it is producing self blue which are too light and carrying extra genes. Tim recommended not getting too many genes involved. His primary concern is what the self blue will produce in 4 or 5 generations into the future. Two years ago at the first self blue pre-qualifying meet the birds were more uniform than they were this past weekend. Everyone needs to consider, we were trying to meet the required numbers with many birds that are still in molt in our area. Both Amanda and Tim commented we must get the self blue more uniform. Tim and APA President John Monaco, told me that several changes are being developed in the recognition process to make sure the birds are uniform and available. Hopefully we can all get the self blue on the correct breeding selections, then have the required 5 APA members exhibit the required 25 head minimum, which are uniform enough to be able to get the APA board to approve them at our second qualifying meet in Columbus, Ohio in 2019 at the national APA meet!
Twelve bantam exhibitors from six states exhibited 71 head in the open show, judged by Troy Laroche. Twenty blacks were shown with Jerry DeSmidt winning BV on a cock and Dwayne Snider RV on a cockerel. Ten blues were shown with Jerry DeSmidt winning BV on a cockerel and Dwayne Snider winning RV on a pullet. Seven blue wheaten were shown with Tiffiny Johnston-Yoder winning BV, BB and best AOCCL on a pullet and RV and RB also on a pullet. Eight brown red were shown with Triple S Farm (Gracie Stonebarger) winning BV and RV on two cockerels. Eight buff were shown with Jerry DeSmidt winning BV and RV on two cockerels. One chocolate pullet and one self blue pullet were shown by Dwayne Snider into BV. Sixteen wheaten were shown with Jerry DeSmidt winning BV on a cock and Game Reaper Old English (Willie Silvey) winning RV on a pullet. Eighteen white were shown with Max Strawn winning BV on a cockerel and Ernie Haire wining RV on a hen.
Since this was our SC district meet, I had Amanda Stallman and Troy Laroche select a champion and Res. Ameraucana. They chose the blue wheaten bantam pullet shown by Tiffiny Johnston-Yoder for champion, and the LF black cockerel shown by Max for reserve champion.
We also had a very good junior show with 22 head in each, the LF and bantam show. The large fowl, shown by 7 juniors, were judged by Bill Patterson while we were holding our annual meeting so we didn’t manage to get a photo of Bill judging. Eighteen black were shown with Hoyt Bolesky winning BV and RB on a hen and Kaylen Taylor winning RV on a pullet. Four blue were shown with Kaylen Taylor winning BV and BB and Best AOSB on a pullet. The RV blue was also a pullet shown by Joseph Mantooth.
Two juniors exhibited 22 head of bantams judged by Mark Dooms. Six blacks were shown with Keirsten Klaus winning BV on a cockerel and RV on a pullet. Seven blue wheaten were shown with Woody Springer winning BV, BB and best AOCCL on a cockerel and RV on a pullet. Nine wheaten were shown with Woody Springer winning BV and RB on a cockerel and RV on a pullet.
Mark Dooms and Bill Patterson selected the LF blue pullet shown by Kaylen Taylor for the junior champion and the bantam blue wheaten cockerel show by Woody Springer for res. junior champion.
It was decided by majority vote to hold our 2019 SC district meet at the Oklahoma State Poultry Federation in Shawnee in Dec. 2019, at our ABC SC district meeting. This will cause the second weekend in December 2019 to not be available for ABC club meets. All other dates are available.
Paul Smith
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