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Exhibiting & Promoting / Project Colors and the APA
« on: August 25, 2014, 01:37:29 PM »
If you have been or plan to work on a project color of ameraucana, I strongly suggest you become a member of the APA.
It has been said that the APA is going to change their rules for accepting new varieties. They have supposedly already put a moratorium on any new variety until they have hashed this out and changed their By-Laws.
The new rule they want to pass is that the five breeders who have bred the new variety for five years must also be a member of the APA. They plan no grandfather clause to this proposal.
If you have a problem with this proposal and are currently a member of the APA, I suggest you contact your District Representative and discuss a "grandfather" solution. Since most people working on project varieties have been following the written guidelines provided by the APA for the past several years, to change it after many have just finished their five year mark is not fair.
I would also encourage all members of our Board of Directors to become members of the APA. The APA sanctions all our shows and is the "Parent Organization" of poultry exhibitors and clubs.
It has been said that the APA is going to change their rules for accepting new varieties. They have supposedly already put a moratorium on any new variety until they have hashed this out and changed their By-Laws.
The new rule they want to pass is that the five breeders who have bred the new variety for five years must also be a member of the APA. They plan no grandfather clause to this proposal.
If you have a problem with this proposal and are currently a member of the APA, I suggest you contact your District Representative and discuss a "grandfather" solution. Since most people working on project varieties have been following the written guidelines provided by the APA for the past several years, to change it after many have just finished their five year mark is not fair.
I would also encourage all members of our Board of Directors to become members of the APA. The APA sanctions all our shows and is the "Parent Organization" of poultry exhibitors and clubs.