Ameraucana Breeders Club
The Official Forum of the Ameraucana Breeders Club => Ameraucana Marketplace => Topic started by: John on August 01, 2005, 09:40:02 PM
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The ad for the show is on the bottom of page 10 in the August issue of Poultry Press.
\"Southern Missouri Poultry Show\", October 15, at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia.
Judges: Don Karasek and Don Juencke.
Call Pat Johnson, 1-417-993-0099, for a Show Catalog.
Many of us are going to make this one day show a two day event for our Ameraucana National meet.
Make reservations at the Best Western, 1-660-826-6100, for Friday and Saturday, October 14 & 15. $62.10 per night.
We\'re going to the Show Me state and show them what Ameraucanas are all about. Hope to see you there!
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I\'m starting to look forward to it. there a couple of birds out of the chicks we got from you starting to look pretty good. so hopefully we\'ll have something to bring. Chris
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Since I don\'t go to many shows, I really look forward to our National meet. It\'s great to see the members I know and meet others that I\'ve only corresponded with. We can check out the progress of the different varieties and talk chicken. I just like to kick back as much possible, but generally am busy due to the Secretary/Treasurer job.
My wife, Kathy, is not into the fancy but always goes with me. She and Mary Gilbert are great friends and go shopping and stuff, while Mike and I go to the show. It\'s always nice to get a BV or even BB, but I\'ve never been very competitive. It is the annual vacation that I get to choose.
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Here\'s a photo of Mike Gilbert and Wayne Gritter discussing some of the finer points. I think it was at our National meet in 2000. I used part of this photo in the new Handbook.
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Now there is couple of serious looking dudes! Actually we were looking over the black gold bantam entries at the national meet held in Lucasville, Ohio, a couple of years ago.
For more info on what we were discussing see the article on black golds in the new handbook.
Mike
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The Show Catalogs & Entry Forms for the Southern Missouri Poultry Show have been mailed. If you didn\'t receive one, but would like one please call Pat Johnson, at 1-417-993-0099, to request one.
This is OUR annual National Meet...Please try to attend!
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Who is going to the National meet in MO, next month?
Please add to this list and correct me if I\'m mistaken, but these are some that I\'m quite sure will be there:
(updated 9/19/05)
Ronda Anderson
John Blehm
Rande Buske
Barbara Campbell
Paul & Ronda Caruso
Jerry DeSmidt
Mike Gilbert
Chris Link
Michael Muenks
Paul, Angela & Matthew Smith
Angela Stanley
Amber Stapp
Bob & Teresa Walchak
:p?
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Hello all . . .
I am on the list for attending, but I am wondering if anyone is interested in meeting on Thursday or Friday evening to visit at my home which is about 40 miles from the show? I would be happy to host a gathering. I do not mind and plan to go to things at the hotel and fairgrounds . . . just thought I would offer . . .
Michael
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I am on the list for attending, but I am wondering if anyone is interested in meeting on Thursday or Friday evening to visit at my home which is about 40 miles from the show? I would be happy to host a gathering. I do not mind and plan to go to things at the hotel and fairgrounds . . . just thought I would offer . . .
Michael
Friday sounds like a plan. We haven\'t planned the drive yet, but hope to get there sometime Friday morning unless others are coming sooner. Thanks for the invite!
I think we plan to have our club meeting at the hotel on Friday afternoon, but don\'t know if a time has been set.
I received a note from Rande Buske today regarding a new address and phone number for him. He says \"I am planning to get to Mo. Not sure if I will have entries but will be good to see everybody!\"
Rande is \"the\" breeder of Ameraucana white bantams. His new phone number is (608)489-4572, in case we would like to inquire about availability of birds.
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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.
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Michael, Friday evening sounds good for us. We plan to leave here Thursday afternoon/evening and get in Friday in time to coop in and attend the meeting.
John, I\'m a little confused about the difference between the Inside Sales Area and the Swap Area?
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John, I\'m a little confused about the difference between the Inside Sales Area and the Swap Area?
I\'m not sure what post you are referring to, but most shows offer an inside sale area with coops to put your sale birds in for a fee. Some shows also allow exhibitors to sell their birds from their own vehicles, in the parking lot, for a fee. Either or both areas could be referred to as swap areas.
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Add one more to the attendee list. My neighbor, Bob Walchak and his wife Teresa plan to attend. They have some very nice bantams, no large fowl. Bob won best wheaten bantam, one of the best egg plaques, and several other awards at last year\'s national meet in Portage, Wisconsin.
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Hi Barbra, the Missouri State Fair building has 2 rooms in it the smaller room is located on the right side of the building as you enter from the front it is used during the fair for waterfowl and turkeys when we have club shows there it is used as an inside sale area for exhibiters. so anyone exhibiting birds can rent a coop or 2 to sell birds from, or if you choose you can get an outside area for $5 and set up as many birds as you wish. it will be great to meet all the folks I haven\'t had a chance to yet. Chris
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Sorry not to be more clear John. I was referring to the info in the show catalog.
Thanks Chris, that helps alot. :p
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Hi Michael,
Friday evening sounds great!
Thanks for the invite looking forward to seeing you and your family,birds @ your place!
Paul :D
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For everyone coming in from a distance away ther weather for the weekend is sunny highs in the mid 70\'s lows in the 50\'s gas prices here are down to the $2.50 range...Have a safe trip we\'ll see ya\'ll Friday or Saturday...Chris
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Sounds perfect! With those gas prices, maybe we\'ll stay!
Barbara
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Thanks for letting us know.
:stare:Gas prices here are $2.70 plus.
Looking forward to meeting you.
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Talked to Charles Conner in Ar. last night they went to Newcasle OK. last weekend said he gave $2.39 down there. Chris
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We had a great time at the ABC National Meet in Sedalia, MO!
Paul, Angela and Matthew Smith were there...
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We had a great time at the ABC National Meet in Sedalia, MO!
Michael Muenks and daughter Lucy had fun...
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We had a great time at the ABC National Meet in Sedalia, MO!
Mike Gilbert judged the eggs and was assisted by Al Nichols...
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We had a great time at the ABC National Meet in Sedalia, MO!
Jerry DeSmidt brought a lot of birds and went home with a lot of awards...
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We had a great time at the ABC National Meet in Sedalia, MO!
Barbara Campbell was awarded a plaque for her LF blue eggs...
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It was lovely to meet you guys at last! Hope you guys will come back!
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It was great to meet all of you guys. Sorry I didn\'t get more pictures i had to kick it in high gear when they started picking champion oe there were 21 color varieties on the row and i had 6 of them.. :o ended up with 3rd best oe. Congrats Mike on show champion. Chris
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Good job, Chris! What variety did you win 3rd with? And, congratulations, Mike! We want to hear more about this win, too! Who won Reserve Champion? How many participants? . . . . Thanks for posting pictures, John.
Susie
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John,
Thanks so much for putting up photos! It is great to be albe to put faces with names. Wish we could have made it to the show-
Looking forward to meeting some of the folks up in MN at the Hutchinson show. We actually are packing up and leaving tonight- plan to take in a few sights along the way. Hope the birds enjoy the \"Dells\" too.
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I think there were about 1200 in the show total. RSC was a Bronze Young Tom. I remember Mike saying the #\'s on Ameraucanas but don\'t recall how many there were. Paul, John or mike may someone can fill the blank.
My 3rd best OE was on a Wheaten hen there were 238 in the class. Chris
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There were 168 Ameraucanas. I do have some photos of some birds too.
I didn\'t get pictures of all the ABC members there and not all of our member that were there showed Ameraucanas. There was Robert and Teresa Walchak, A.J. Buford, Jerry DeSmidt, Nancy Dean, Paul & Angela Smith and Matthew, Dan Demarest, Angela Stanley, Al Nichols, Charlie Simpson, Mike & Mary Gilbert, Ray Johnson, Amber Stapp, Chris Link, Barbara & Dick Campbell, Mary Lou Phelps, Michael & Anastasia Muenks and Eve & Lucy, John & Kathy Blehm and David...
Am I missing anyone?
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Bob Walchak, of Wisconsin, receives a hand painted mug award presented by Matthew Smith, of Texas.
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The 2005 national meet is now history! There were 13 Ameraucana exhibitors from 6 states, who showed 90 bantams, 69 large fowl and 6 junior large fowl. Don Karasek from Wisconsin did an excellent job of judging our meet held at the Southern Missouri Poultry Club Show in Sedalia, Missouri.
There were 9 blue bantams shown. The top two were both pullets shown by Michael Gilbert. Fourteen brown-red bantams were shown. Robert Walchak\'s pullet was reserve and Michael Gilbert\'s cockerel was BV. The blue wheaten class also had 9 shown with Robert Walchak\'s pullet winning reserve and Michael Gilbert\'s pullet winning the class. Ten buff bantams were shown with Robert Walchak\'s pullet filling the reserve and Michael Gilbert\'s cock the best of variety. Ten white bantams were shown with Robert Walchak\'s pullet topping the class and his cockerel filling the reserve. Michael Gilbert showed an excellent trio in the wheaten class of 13 head. His pullets from the trio filled the BV and RV. There were only 3 silver bantams shown and Michael Gilbert\'s pullets won the BV and RV. The All Other Varieties Class consisted of one splash wheaten pullet and 4 black gold females. The BV was Michael Gilbert\'s black gold pullet and the reserve was Al Nichols black gold hen. Blacks were the largest class of bantams with 17 head. Jerry DeSmidt had the reserve on a hen. Michael Gilbert had the BV on a pullet which won best of breed, champion All Other Comb Clean Legged, champion bantam, champion Ameraucana and champion of the Southern Missouri Poultry Club show. Congratulations, Michael on an outstanding accomplishment produced by many years of selective breeding. Michael also had the reserve breed bantam on his blue pullet. There were two bantam displays. Michael Gilbert scored 64 with his brown-red display and Jerry DeSmidt won the plaque with a score of 70 on his black display. Michael Gilbert won the bantam trio plaque on his wheaten bantams and Jerry DeSmidt had reserve on his black trio.
The large fowl show was down by about half at the 69 head show, mostly due to many of the older birds in molt. There were 17 head in both the blue and black class. Angela & I had the BV on a blue cockerel and RV on a blue pullet. Thirteen whites were shown. Jerry DeSmidt had the RV on his pullet and the BV on his cock. Seven wheatens were shown. Angela & I had RV on our cock and BV on our pullet. Five blue wheatens were shown. Angela & I had pullets to fill both of the top places. Four buff were shown. Jerry DeSmidt won the BV on a hen. Angela & I had RV on a pullet. Three silver were shown. Michael Muenks had both BV and RV on hens. John Blehm showed the only brown-red large fowl - a very good cockerel which is capable of advancing the brown-red variety and defeating many in the variety. Thanks John for bringing him. There were some of each of the 8 recognized varieties shown in both large fowl and bantam. Without the brown-red cockerel this wouldn\'t have been so. There were 17 blacks shown. Angela and I had RV on our black cockerel which recently won reserve large fowl at our local Red River Show. Jerry DeSmidt had the BV black on a hen. She also won champion All Other Standard Breed, reserve Ameraucana and reserve large fowl of the
Southern Missouri Poultry Club Show. Jerry received the Arne Schmidt\'s traveling plaque. Our blue cockerel was reserve breed and reserve AOSB. There were 3 large fowl displays shown. Jerry DeSmidt scored 66 points on his whites. Angela & I scored 72 points on blacks and won the plaque with a score of 90 points on blues. Our blues also won the best large fowl trio and Jerry DeSmidt had reserve with his whites.
The egg contest was another success thanks to
Michael & Mary Gilbert, John & Kathy Blehm and all who helped with it. Plaques were received by each of the egg contest winners who were Michael Muenks, bantam hen; John Blehm bantam pullet; Barbara Campbell LF hen; and Angela & I, LF pullet.
Special thanks to John Blehm, Michael Muenks and Barbara Campbell and all who helped with the raffle to raise funds to help pay for the national awards. Special thanks to the Southern Missouri Poulty Club for hosting our Ameraucana national, furnishing the beautiful silver plates for the BB and RB of both bantam and large fowl and also contributing to the awards fund. Special thanks to Michael & Mary Gilbert, Michael & Anastasia Muenks, Barbara & Richard Campbell, Jerry DeSmidt, Jake Hendzel, Robert & Teresa Walchak, Hal & Pam Marietta, John & Kathy Blehm, Angela & I and the ABC for contributing to the awards fund. Thanks to all exhibitors who came and supported the national show. Areatha Mahan did an outstanding job on the hand painted plates and mugs which were awarded to the BV and RV respectfully in both bantam and large fowl in the 8 recognized varieties. They were received by the ABC members. Many came to me expressing how awesome the awards for our meet were. Thanks Areatha, for sharing your abilities with our national ABC exhibitors. Also thanks to Nelda Ware of Joe K. Ware Trophy Company for making the engraved plates for our plaques.
We didn\'t get to make the dinner party or business meeting held at Michael & Anastasia Muenks place, due to an 11 hour delay caused by a fuel pump going out on our pick-up. I heard it was very good! Sorry we missed it, Michael & Anastasia. I\'m looking forward to seeing your birds at your place while at Sedalia for a show in the future. We had to get on home Sunday to get Matthew ready for school on Monday.
Speaking of Matthew there were 6 large fowl in the junior show by 2 junior exhibitors. Matthew won BB, champion AOSB and reserve Champion Large Fowl in the junior show on a blue pullet. His black pullet won BV and reserve breed.
The awards dinner party on Saturday night at the Carousel Restaurant went well. I truly enjoyed this week-end and look forward to showing at our 2006 national in Bay City, Michigan in October.
We will post photos ASAP.
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Michael Gilbert had the BV on a pullet which won best of breed, champion All Other Comb Clean Legged, champion bantam, champion Ameraucana and champion of the Southern Missouri Poultry Club show. Congratulations, Michael on an outstanding accomplishment produced by many years of selective breeding.
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WOW! That is an awesome blue! :p
Congratulations to Mike and all the other winners!
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Paul and Angela have post many photos of the winning Ameraucanas on the ABC Sharing Place site:
http://groups.msn.com/ABCShareingPlace/inthenews.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=5015&LastModified=4675544405183372785&all_topics=1
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The Arne Schmidt Memorial award was presented to Jerry DeSmidt by Matthew Smith assisted by his parents, Paul and Angela Smith.