Ameraucana Breeders Club
The Official Forum of the Ameraucana Breeders Club => Exhibiting & Promoting => Topic started by: Paul on November 06, 2014, 10:22:36 AM
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The Arkansas State meet & special meet were a great success for our Ameraucana breed, with 5 exhibitors from four states exhibiting 56 LF in the open shows. One Jr., Matthew Smith showed 10 LF Ameraucanas in the Jr. show for a total of 66 head of Ameraucanas as there were no bantam Ameraucanas shown this year. It will be different at our national meet next time! I’m hoping for at least 100 head of each! Great News from Jacob Bates came Monday after the show-2015 will be a two-day double judged show instead of squeezing it into one. That means we will have an extra evening and Sunday to enjoy talking poultry!
The first judging was designated to be the Arkansas state meet and it was judged by Art Reiber. There were 30 head of blacks shown by 5 ABC members! Max Strawn of Texas won the top two spots with a cockerel and cock respectfully. Max’s cockerel also won BB and Res. AOSB. Max’s cock also won RB. Max also won the top two blue with a pair of pullets from 10 blues shown by 3 members. There were two blue wheatens shown by 2 exhibitors. Sharon Caywood of Arkansas won BV on a pullet and Paul & Angela Smith of Texas had RV on a pullet. Clif Redden of Kansas showed 4 brown red. A cockerel took BV and a pullet won RV. Great to see Clif get a start of the scarce brown reds! I feel they will become popular in the SC district in the next few years. Max showed 3 lavender which the show management insisted on calling self blue. Max’s pullet won BV and his hen RV. Sharon Caywood showed the only splash a pullet which took BV. There were 6 wheatens by 3 members. Sharon won the top two spots with a cockerel and pullet respectfully.
The 2nd judging, a special meet, was judged by Walt Leonard. The black class was still won by Max’s cockerel which was chosen BB and Best AOSB. The RV saw a change as Clif won with a pullet which also won RB. Max’s blue pullet topped the blue class. The RV saw a change as Paul & Angela won with a cockerel. The blue wheaten class had a flip flop as Paul & Angela had BV and Sharon’s pullet had RV. The brown red’s stayed the same with Clif’s cockerel BV and his pullet RV. The lavender class also stayed the same with Max’s pullet and hen winning respectfully. The splash class also stayed the same with Sharon’s pullet winning BV. The wheaten class also had a flip flop of the top two. Sharon’s pullet was selected BV and her cockerel RV.
The junior show was judged by Lewis Hinkle. The juniors only have one judging. They show for showmanship in the afternoon, rather than having a second judging. Disappointed that other juniors didn’t show any Ameraucanas this year. It will be different at our 2015 national! Matthew Smith’s placings were black cockerel BV, BB and Res. AOSB. His black pullet was RV. His blue pullet was selected BV and his cockerel RV. He also showed a blue wheaten and lavender pullet-both BV. He showed two splash pullets-BV and RV. His wheaten cockerel was selected BV and RB. His wheaten pullet was RV.
Over all a great set of Ameraucanas were shown! Looking forward to having our 2015 national at Fayetteville on November 7 and 8. We are in the process of blocking rooms for ABC members. Sharon Caywood is working on finding us a good restaurant for our dinner and awards distribution. Make plans to attend this national show.
Paul Smith
SC district director.
Photos of all BV and RV will be posted ASAP.
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Show report
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Paul and Angela,
The 2 day event is great for us because we are traveling so far from WV. Hopefully that will allow us to socialize a little more with one another. Congratulations to all the winners at the Fayetteville show.
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Jeff & Cheryl,
Great! The trip to and from cost the same-might as well enjoy the stay longer with only a little more expense while there. We have made many 1,000 mile (one way) trips to the national meet since 2000. The furthest was Great Falls, Mt. We made a mini-vacation out of it in 2007. Went to Great Falls, then cut across the U.S. to Sedalia, MO. for our SC district meet the following weekend. Even though Fayetteville, Ark. is in our district it is still 311 miles to our place-a 5 hour drive.
Looking forward to showing with everyone!
Paul & Angela
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Fayetteville Arkansas state meet judged by Art Reiber
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Fayetteville Arkansas state meet judged by Art Reiber
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Fayetteville Arkansas special meet judged by Walt Leonard
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Fayetteville Arkansas special meet judged by Walt Leonard
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Fayetteville Arkansas junior show judged by Lewis Hinkle
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Fayetteville Arkansas junior show judged by Lewis Hinkle
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Judge Art Reiber
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A few members at Fayetteville.
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Thanks for all the hard work Paul, Angela and Matt. Great job!
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Great report Paul, as always. It looks like Sharon has a nice line of wheaten/blue wheaten going there.
I assume they came from the Smiths? Are the bantams just not at all popular in the south?
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Thank you Mike. No, Paul has some nice wheatens, but I bought my start from eggs purchased from ABC member Denise Baker. It has been quite the trial getting this color going especially when I only had four males and one female hatch from the eggs. My hen was quite productive though. Denise's birds have done well.
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Is Denise still active in the club? Have not seen her for several years.
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Is Denise still active in the club?
I don't know how active, but she is a lifetime member.
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I got my Dec Poultry Press in the mail today. Thanks Paul for submitting the report for the club for the Arkansas state and special meet! Your article was on pages 2&3. It got my attention before I even started getting engrossed in the reading the Press. Good job!
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Thank you, Looking forward to many ABC members showing there next year.