The following is from Paul & Angela Smith...
The Real Truth About The 2005 Ameraucana National Meet The Ameraucana National will be at the Southern Missouri Poultry Club Show (SMPC) held at the Missouri State Fair Grounds in Sedalia, Missouri on October 15,2005. Our annual business meeting will be held on Friday, Oct. 14, at the Best Western Motel meeting room from 2:00 - 4:00 pm. We have 20 rooms blocked for our ABC members. Our awards/dinner will be Saturday evening at the Carousel Restaurant inside the Best Western Motel. The time will be announced at the show. This will be the first national meet in the South-Central District, since it was created about 5 years ago. I hope you will be able to help make it a great success by supporting it with your presence and as many good Ameraucanas as possible, there will be an Ameraucana egg contest again this year. Mike Gilbert has agreed to be in charge of this. There will be four classes - hen and pullet in both bantam and large fowl (LF). The winner of each class will receive a plaque. All the plaques are being made now. A local trophy company is building all the metal parts and I’m doing the wood and assembly. The SMPC will be furnishing the awards for BB & RB of both bantam and large fowl. The open show has plaques for Champion and Reserve Ameraucana (bantam and large fowl competing). There are plaques for both bantam and LF for best trio and best display. The junior show has plaques for BB bantam and LF. A memorial traveling plaque honoring Arne Schmidt is also being made. It will rotate to the BV at the national meet from black to blue to buff to white in the LF open show. It will go through this cycle either three or four times. When it is filled, it will stay with the one who wins it the most number of times. In the event there is a tie, it will go to the one tied who won the most recent year.
The bantams also have a traveling plaque which goes to the BB bantam in the open show.
Hand painted plates and mugs will be given to each of the 8 recognized BV and RV, respectfully, in both bantam and LF in the open show.
Areatha Mahan does an outstanding job with these. I felt we were very fortunate to be able to get these for our awards. Any other variety which will include the black gold, barred (cuckoo), splash, smoke, etc… will receive cash awards in lieu of the painted awards, due to not knowing which variety to paint on them before the show.
John & Kathy Blehm have donated 10 t-shirts which will go to best and reserve Ameraucana by a jr., BV Brown-Red, Buff, Silver and AOV in both bantam and LF. Cash donations have been made by:
Richard & Barbara Campbell, Mike & Mary Gilbert,
Hal & Pam Marietta and Angela & I,
which paid for the 16 plates and 16 mugs. The trophy company hasn’t been paid, yet.
Anyone who can help with this expense is asked to send donations to:
Paul Smith, 2257 CR 224 Gainesville, TX. 76240
We also need items for our club raffle. Angela & I are donating a quality reproduction of an oil painting of Jesus. Our church sells them to help fund a building expansion project. It is an awesome picture and in the process of being copyrighted at this time. One of our church members painted it about 2 years ago.
Don’t miss out on this great history making event!
Entries close Oct. 7,2005!!! A catalog may be acquired by contacting Pat Johnson, 36 Osage Rd., Urbana, MO. 65767
Phone # : 417-993-0099
e-mail: jjohnson013@centurytel.net
Anyone who wants to make a copy of the 2004 national BV pictures on The ABC Sharing Place or other pictures of the event needs to do so by Oct. 16. We will have to delete all of these in order to post pictures from the 2005 national. The thread “The Real Truth About The 2004 National”, may be accessed by clicking on view all messages. Then click on previous 50 messages. When the previous 50 message board appears click on previous 50 messages again. This process has to be repeated one more time, then on the third previous 50 the thread “The Real Truth About 2004 National” should appear near the bottom of the list.
Remember Oct. 7, 2005 is the deadline to enter the 2005 national. Hope to see you there!
Paul
PS Only Ameraucana Breeder Club Members are eligible for awards offered by the ABC and it’s members! Join the ABC today. Check out :
http://www.Ameraucana.org for info and form to join.