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Breeding / Re: Dun variety project
« Last post by John W Blehm on November 01, 2025, 04:07:09 pm »
During my internet searches to find photos of dun chickens, I went thru all 58 pages on the BYC forum's Post Your Chocolates, Dun ,Khaki , Platinum Bird Pics topic. There are many opinions, comments about the feather colors the dun gene is involved in producing, but most agree a dun to black cross can produce offspring of various shades of gray to "almost" or "nearly" black. Today I sorted thru my birds and I'm done to about 40 keepers that I'll breed from next year. As I studied what I thought was a black K from my bantam dun project I found he is really a chocolatey black. I think these have popped up over the past few years and I mistook them for blacks and that may be why I've gotten khaki offspring...dun crossed with dun will produce a percentage of khaki.
This guy is now my prize bird of the year. His shanks are slate, not black as are the shanks of most pure black Ameraucanas. His underfluff is a light gray with a hint of brown, not black. From a distance, in the shaded pen he appears black and he still has a green sheen. In hand, in the sunlight you can see the brown. 
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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: 2026 National Meet Bids
« Last post by Mike Gilbert on November 01, 2025, 11:50:26 am »
When we have only one national meet, I feel it's best to move it around to different parts of the country from year to year.  Here is a link to our website that shows the locations for all our past nationals.   https://ameraucana.org/DnLd/Ameraucana%20National%20Meets.pdf    Minnesota has not had one since 2008, and that is one reason I'm leaning towards their bid.  Having shown there the past few years, I feel it is a prime venue to gain new Alliance members.   South Carolina would be my second choice, but I believe the bid from Minnesota is a little better in several respects. (lower entry fees, single judged show, Ameraucana large fowl judged first instead of last) It does not show in their bid, but they have a second champion row just for breed club national meets.   They had one for CFI in the past, and also for the Cochin national meet this year.   But my mind is open and could possibly be changed with persuasive reasons.
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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: 2026 National Meet Bids
« Last post by Russ Blair on November 01, 2025, 10:19:42 am »
I have attached PDF files of all the National Meet Bids below. If I receive any other bids today, I will also post them as well.
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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: 2026 National Meet Bids
« Last post by John W Blehm on November 01, 2025, 09:33:24 am »
Fowl Fest, October 10-11, 2026, has resubmitted the same great standing offer that has been made over the past few years.
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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: 2026 National Meet Bids
« Last post by Kyle Porosky on November 01, 2025, 07:43:06 am »
Beaver Pigeon & Bantam Club could use support in 2026, whether they get the national meet or not. The show was shut down (this year) by the state of Wisconsin on setup day and they were unable to get money back for the venue and other things. Huge hit to the club
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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: 2026 National Meet Bids
« Last post by Russ Blair on October 31, 2025, 11:13:56 am »
As of right now I have received bids from these show clubs and members:

Michigan Poultry Fanciers, Fowl Fest in Chesaning MI- John Blehm & Russ Blair

Minnesota State Poultry Assoc, Hutchison MN- Mike Gilbert & Ann Dunn

Anderson Poultry Club, Pendleton SC- Stan Alder & Becky Pelton

Beaver Pigeon and Bantam Club, Jefferson WI- Kyle Porosky & Rachel Dunn

Ill-Mo, Highland Ill- Carl Cook & Michael Muenks

If you requested a bid to be submitted and do not see it mentioned above please contact the show superintendent and remind them I need all bids submitted by November 1, 2025 😊
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Exhibiting, Promoting & Club Notes / Re: 2026 National Meet Bids
« Last post by Mike Gilbert on October 29, 2025, 10:03:22 am »
Quote from: Mike Gilbert on October 26, 2025, 01:45:23 pm
Russ, there will be a bid coming from the Minnesota club.  They just met Friday night and decided on the particulars.  I have not seen it yet, but expect to very soon.

A good bid has been received from the Minnesota State Poultry Association.  Show Dates: October 24 & 25, 2026
Show Location: Hutchinson, MN (McLeod County Fairgrounds)   The 2025 show had 1,801 entries.   A final decision will be made by the Alliance Board of Directors by November 15th. 
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Ameraucana Marketplace / Large Fowl Silver.
« Last post by Elijah Ensor on October 27, 2025, 07:33:07 pm »
Good Evening, I am in need of a LF silver cock bird or Cockerel, looking for at least one, but would take two.  Shipping needed or Transport to a show.   Any Leads are appreciated? 
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Breeding / Re: Dun variety project
« Last post by Elijah Ensor on October 27, 2025, 07:30:00 pm »
Thanks for sharing your experience Updates, looking forward to seeing the progress on the Large Fowl.   
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Breeding / Re: Dun variety project
« Last post by John W Blehm on October 27, 2025, 05:35:43 pm »
I'd cut back to just having bantams, but now have a trio of LF for a LF dun project. Last year at the Fowl Fest I'd talked about my bantam dun project with Thomas Dean. Knowing of my interest, this year brought two dun pullets, of mixed ancestry, to the Fowl Fest. I bought them and a LF black Ameraucana K to breed over them. I'll breed from them next year and may have pullets to sell next fall to an Alliance member(s) that may want to continue with the project. The idea would be to just keep the best colored pullets year after year and putting top quality LF black Ameraucana males over them, hoping to only extract the dun gene and any associated modifying genes required to produce brown/chocolate feathered offspring from the female side.
About the parentage of the two pullets, Thomas said:
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Mom was hatchery barred rock, dad was phenotypically chocolate, cuckoo, bearded, with duplex type comb and may have had a tiny tassel, but not really a crest. He was a barnyard mix- certainly had polish and crevecouer (source of beard and dun gene) may have easter egger, barred rock, who know what else. I sort of think he might have come from some green eggs I set...so maybe easter egger?...
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