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Exhibiting & Promoting / Updated Points and New Reports on the Website

« on: February 23, 2018, 01:37:26 AM »

The Points have been updated to the most current information available.

I have also added two new pages to the Points page.  Under the description for Master Exhibitor is a link to a listing of all who have earned their Master Exhibitor title, the date it was earned, and the show where it was earned.  You can click on the Show Name to open the Meet Report for that Show.

Under the description for Junior Master Exhibitor is a link to a similar listing of all who have earned their Junior Master Exhibitor title, the date it was earned, and the show where it was earned.  You can also click on those Show Names to open the Meet Report for that show.

Here is what those reports look like:

Master Exhibitor.pdf

Junior Master Exhibitor.pdf

At the rate you folks are winning, it won't be long before we are awarding the first Grand Master Exhibitor title!

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Exhibiting & Promoting / New Master Exhibitor

« on: February 22, 2018, 08:58:18 PM »

Paul & Angela Smith reached the level of Master Exhibitor on April 8, 2017 at the North Texas Poultry Showcase!

Congratulations, Paul & Angela!

Your plaque will be winging its way to you the first of the week.

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Exhibiting & Promoting / Congratulations! to 3, Oops...make that 4 New Junior Master Exhibitors

« on: February 22, 2018, 08:56:27 PM »

New Junior Master Exhibitor - Houston Story. Houston reached that auspicious level on 12/9/17 at the Oklahoma State Poultry Federation.

New Junior Master Exhibitor - David Vetter. David reached the level of Junior Master Exhibitor on 1/20/18 at the National Western Stock Show.

New Junior Master Exhibitor - Madison Budde, Madison made it to Master Exhibitor level on 2/10/18 at the Comanche Crossroads Show #1.

New Junior Master Exhibitor - ShyAnne Story. ShyAnne earned her new title on 1/20/18 at the Southwestern Exposition Show.

I will get these plaques ordered, if not tomorrow, then first of the week!

Congratulations!

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Exhibiting & Promoting / Meet Reports

« on: February 22, 2018, 06:05:57 PM »

With the exception of two meet reports - Tulsa State Fair and Lawrence County - I am caught up on Meet Reports that we have received.  All have been uploaded to the website, so if you don't see a Meet Report listed, it means we haven't received it.

I'm working on getting points updated now.

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Exhibiting & Promoting / New Junior Master Exhibitor and New Master Exhibitor

« on: February 19, 2018, 06:38:16 PM »

As I'm getting caught up with Meet Reports, I'm finding new awards, too.

Please congratulate Madison Budde for earning Junior Master Exhibitor and Paul & Angela Smith for earning Master Exhibitor.

I'll wait til I'm caught up on the backlog of Meet reports before ordering the new plaques, as I suspect there are a few more just waiting to be discovered!

Congratulations!!

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News and Information / January Gallery Competition - White Ameraucana Winners!

« on: January 29, 2018, 04:31:21 PM »

And the winners of the January 2018 White Ameraucana Gallery competition are:

Ernie Haire - in both bantam and large fowl with:

Bantam Pullet
Bantam Hen
Bantam Cockerel

Large Fowl Pullet
Large Fowl Cockerel
Large Fowl Cock

and Lindsay Helton with:

Large Fowl chicks
Large Fowl Hen


The February Competition is for Wheaten Ameraucanas - get those pics in, folks!  I know a lot of you are raising some beautiful wheatens in both large fowl and bantam.  Just send your pics to info@ameraucanabreedersclub.org with the subject line of "Gallery Competition".  Be sure to identify each pic as to gender (cock, hen, cockerel, pullet, or chicks) and large fowl or bantam.  Pics need to be a minimum of 600px x 600px - bigger is better, but let's keep it under about 1500px either width or height.

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News and Information / 2018 New Member Drawing

« on: January 04, 2018, 04:51:08 PM »

2018 New Member Drawing!

Every year, at our National Meet, we put all the new member's names that have joined since the last National, into a hat and draw out one winner.

So far, since we started this program, we've shipped out two incubators, and one Eco Glow 20 Brooder Heater, and Premier Brooder Heater.

This year's award will be winner's choice: One Large Fowl Three Hole Show Box or One Bantam Four Hole Show Box, made by Vinson Workman! The winner will get to select which one they want.

Members do not need to be present to win. Drawing will held at our 2018 National Meet, at the Dayton Fancy Feathers Poultry Show, Greenville, OH, 10/6/18.

To enter, just join the ABC! You can join online at Membership

Three Hole LF Show Box

Four Hole Bantam Show Box

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News and Information / ABC Membership and Renewals

« on: January 04, 2018, 01:02:33 PM »

If you haven't yet renewed your membership, now's the time!
You can renew on our website athttp://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/membership.html

or just send a paypal payment to sales@ameraucanabreedersclub.org.

You can also snail mail your renewal to: Ameraucana Breeders Club, 156 Titanic Road, Aiken, SC 29805.

If you haven't joined yet, we would love to welcome you into the Ameraucana Breeders Club - a great source of active breeders, exhibitors, and members - over 300 strong!

The ABC is very active in pursuing new projects to offer more benefits to our members and actively promoting our breed, including petitions for new varieties. Visit our website at ameraucanabreedersclub.org and join up!

Dues haven't changed:
Juniors - $10/year
Individual - $12/year
Family - $18/year
Individual Lifetime - $200
Family Lifetime - $300

Once joined, you become eligible for our annual New Member Drawing, held at our National every year. We'll be announcing what this year's award will be soon. Here's a hint: great for all our exhibitors carrying multiple birds to the shows! So far, we've given away a couple of incubators, some brooder heaters and we're looking forward to shipping a new award to a New Member this year!

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News and Information / January Gallery Competition - White Ameraucana

« on: January 04, 2018, 09:53:28 AM »

January Gallery Competition - White Ameraucana

A new competition for photos for the ABC Gallery began on June 1st, 2017. Every month, a new variety will be selected for folks to send their images in of adults, chicks, young started birds. The best photos will then be selected by a panel of judges: Walt Leonard, Rip Stalvey, and Tom Roebuck.

The winning photos will be announced and used in our ABC Gallery.

After a brief hiatus for the holidays, the next competition begins now and entries will close on January 15th, so dust off those photos and get them sent in! The variety for the January competition is White Ameraucanas, bantam and large fowl. You can send pics of adult male and female (profile shots preferred), chicks (group images ok), and young started birds.

The goal is to have the best representation of each variety, at the various stages of development, in our gallery.

Pictures must be a minimum of 600px wide x 400 px high to be included. Send your photos to info@ameraucanabreedersclub.org and put "Gallery Competition" in the subject line.

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News and Information / "Phishing" the Breeder's Directory

« on: December 27, 2017, 03:46:54 PM »

Just a quick note to all our faithful members and followers:
Someone has recently "phished" our breeder's directory listing on our website and is sending out membership solicitation notices to the emails gathered from that process.

The IP address that "phished" our breeder's directory will be blocked from our website shortly; however, if you do not desire to receive any further communication from that email, pm, or ip address, we recommend you block it, as well.

If you welcome those solicitations, then you need take no further action.

One final note: The ABC welcomes everyone, whether they are members of another specialty club, APA, ABA, or not. But we don't condone or accept using our member's breeder's directory profile for such solicitations.

Edited (12/29/17): I have removed the word "phishing" from the above, as it was an incorrect use of the word.  "Phishing" is defined as: the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers." There was no intent to harvest member's personal information for fraudulent activity.  The emails sent could legitimately be called "spam", which is defined as: Email spam, also known as unsolicited bulk email (UBE), junk mail, or unsolicited commercial email (UCE), is the practice of sending unwanted email messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients.

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News and Information / Joy to the World!

« on: December 22, 2017, 11:21:07 PM »

I just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Blessed and Happy New Year!

I'm also writing to let everyone know that I'm taking the next week off.   Things on the home front have been on the back burner and it's time to move them back to the front for a bit and do some catching up around here.

So, everyone please enjoy this Season, and let us all Rejoice in the Reason.

Susan

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News and Information / High Point Awards for 2017

« on: December 19, 2017, 05:14:39 PM »

(drum roll, please)

That moment we've all been waiting for - announcement of the High Point Awards for 2017.  The High Point awards are the total points earned from the first show following the National to the last show before the next National.  All the points are totaled up and the highest for each District is awarded the District Annual High Point award in each division - Open and Junior.  The person with the highest total overall wins the Overall High Point award, again in Open and Junior division.

The awards are as follows:

Overall Open High Point Award, $100, goes to Ernie Haire

Ernie earned 1225 points, from Louisiana (863) and Texas (362) shows.

Overall Junior High Point Award, $50, goes to Colton Brush

This was very very close, with only 4 points separating Colton from his sister, Hannah.

District High Awards

North East District

Open, $35, goes to Temple DaSilva
Junior, $20, goes to Colton Brush

South East District

Open, $35, goes to Susan Mouw
Junior, $20, goes to Gwen Lynch

South Central District

Open, $35, goes to Ernie Haire
Junior $20, goes to Clarabelle Galbraith

Western District

Open, $35, goes to Debra Hogan
No Junior points

North Central District

Open, $35, goes to Jerry DeSmidt
No Junior points

Congratulations!

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Exhibiting & Promoting / HOTOPA, 11-4-17, Fayetteville AR - SC District Meet

« on: December 18, 2017, 09:01:43 AM »

The HOTOPA Meet Report is now posted:

http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/meet_reports/11-4-17%20Heart%20of%20the%20Ozarks%20Fayetteville%20AR%20District.pdf

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Exhibiting & Promoting / New Meet Policy - Re: CH and Res CH Ameraucana

« on: December 17, 2017, 06:28:57 PM »

Hi folks

I just wanted to let everyone know that there has been a change in our meet policy, effective from this day forward for all meets.

CH and Reserve CH Ameraucana will be recognized and accorded points for National and District Meets only.  I will be making a change in the Meet Policy that goes out to all clubs hosting meets, and I or Temple will make the necessary change to our Meet Reports.

Thanks!

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Exhibiting & Promoting / New Points totals

« on: December 17, 2017, 01:00:14 PM »

The new points totals have been posted on the website.  However, we are still missing some Meet Reports that could impact these totals, so we can't announce the High Point Award winners just yet.

You can see the new reports at: ABC Points