2025 Amerauacana Alliance National Meet

[Russ Blair]

I would like to announce that the board of directors have voted to hold one National Meet in 2025, and they have also accepted the Dayton Fancy Feather Clubs Bid to host it. Here is the Bid Amanda sent us with the show dates and locations, I will also update this thread as we get closer, and the show catalog is published. So, start planning your hatches for our 2025 National Meet the first weekend of October and be sure to put this one on your calendar 

Ameraucana Alliance National Meet
Dayton Fancy Feather Club
Darke County Fairgrounds,
Greenville Ohio
October 4 & 5th, 2025

Dayton Fancy Feather Show
Show Dates: October 4th & 5th
Show Location: Greenville, Ohio
Single or double show: Double
Entry Fee: 8.00
State Vet Requirements for out of State entry: pullorum testing required
Average Show entries total: 166-1800
Any Rebates offered to our Alliance:
Club Table/s:
Single Stacked Cages:
Will Ameraucana be on top, if double stacked: single stacked
Wide Isles: nice wide isles
Can we hold a livestock silent auction: yes
Can they provide auction cages: yes
Is there a room available for annual club meeting: we have a building that is one
the fairgrounds nearby that other groups have used for meetings.
Will we get choice of judges from the ones hired by the show: yes
How many Judges (one for bantam and large fowl or just one for both classes): if
the club wants the same judge for both LF and bantam that is fine or if you want
them split up.
Will Ameraucana be judged first for our National Meet: Yes
Is there usually a hosting hotel discount: yes, everyone who mentions the show
gets a discount.
Is there camping available: yes, current rate is 35.00 per night.
Anything else that would help attract members to attend, like historic locations,
community attractions, famous restaurants or any other information you would
like to share with our board of directors that might help us in deciding who will
host our National Meet/s: Annie Oakley is from Greenville, Ohio.
The club will give your club 150 cash and provide BB awards for both LF and Bantam for both
shows.

[Stacy Melton]

How wonderful!  This is a great venue and the host club is awesome.  this is one show I try to attend both in the spring and fall so to have the national here is a bonus for me.  Thank you board of directors for accepting this bid. 

Look forward to seeing all your smiling faces at the show and talking chicken!   

[Russ Blair]

As you all have read in our Spring Newsletter this year's National show committee will be Bruno Menarim, Brian Bailey with myself acting as Chairman of this committee. Bruno was originally going to act as chairman but he unfortunately had some other commitments pop up that would interfere with these duties so I agreed to assume those responsibilities.

There will be a long list of task that we would appreciate help with if anyone that is attending would like to help us with. Some of these will be clerking and judging the egg contest, help man the silent auction and club table, filling out the meet report, calculating displays and much more that I know I am forgetting right now. If you have the willingness to volunteer feel free to leave a comment or send me an email at slicktree{at}hotmail.com, thanks for reading this and I look forward to seeing some of you there.

Oh if you have any extra breeding quality Ameraucana that you would like to donate to our silent auction please let me know with a comment or in an email as well. As we get closer I will post a list of all of our donations, including the members name who generously donated them.

[Elijah Ensor]

Thanks for the update.   

[Rebecca G Howie]

It's official.

Our beautiful Ermine Bantams will have an ABA acceptance meet at the Ohio National on November 8, 9 this fall.

Our Ameraucana Alliance National Meet will be a great chance to put on a great exhibit of Ermine Bantams before that acceptance meet. Last year we had a fine looking class of 24 at the National in Fayetteville, AR!

Let's get these guys out for a practice run again this year at our National Meet in Dayton.

Just for interest - a group of gangly young cockerels

[Russ Blair]

I am pleased to announce that this board of directors have voted to have Paul Monteith judge our bantam class of Ameraucana at this year's National Meet. John Beamer will be judging the large fowl class of Ameraucana, and Tom Carey is our alternate pick if either of the other judges end up not being able to attend. With Paul and John deciding our champion and reserve champion Ameraucana overall.

Paul Monteith is the current chair for the ABA standard committee. John Beamer is also serving on that committee along with Gary Rossman. This will be a great opportunity for the bantam ermine breeders to showcase all the hard work they have put into them. I look forward to seeing a bunch of members there, this should be an amazing Ameraucana National.

[Russ Blair]

I would just like to remind everyone that the post mark entry deadline is September 5, 2025 for the DFFC show that is hosting our 2025 Ameraucana National Meet. The email entry date is September 12, 2025 and all inquiries and entries should be sent to daytonfancyfeatherclub@gmail.com with Pay Pal payments going to the same email address. Here is a link https://www.poultryshowcentral.com/Dayton_Fancy_Feather_Club.html where you can download their catalog and entry form, Hope to see you there.

[Russ Blair]

Post mark entries need to be mailed in today. Email entries need delivered and paid by September 12, but I wouldn't wait until the last minute.

[Russ Blair]

If you have been waiting, to see which birds are going to molt like myself, to email your entry today is the final deadline. Send your entry to daytonfancyfeatherclub@gmail.com and send payment through PayPal to the same address. I look forward to seeing some of y'all there 

[Russ Blair]

I have attached a picture Amanda sent me. The red circled area is the designated camping area for anyone that plans on camping, like myself  ; The G3 Building is the show barn just to give everyone a perspective of where they can find the camping sites. They are first come first serve with a drop box for payment

[Russ Blair]

The plaques have arrived, they look great and someone will be taking home some pretty nice hardware in a week and a half.

[Russ Blair]

Here is an Itinerary for the upcoming Ameraucana National. Amanda is supposed to confirm the exact time the meeting room is available for the lunch discussion. 

According to the weather forecast October 4, is supposed to be sunny and 76 degrees



National Meet Itinerary

Friday
12:00pm (noon) until 10:00pm: Coop in
10:00pm: Barn closes

Saturday
6:00am: Barn opens
6:00 am-8:30am: Coop in
9:00am: Judging and silent auction bids begin
9:30am: Egg contest Judging begins
12:00pm-1:00pm: Tentative Lunch break and question and answer discussion. To be held in building on fairgrounds, waiting on time confirmation from Amanda.
2:00pm: Silent auction concludes and winners announced
6:30pm: Annual dinner, location listed below
7:00pm-???: Annual meeting, same location as dinner

Sunday
7:00am: Barn opens
9:00am: Final Judging for Show Champions
10:00am: Show awards announced (Both Junior and Open Show)
Immediately following awards: Coop out, please be sure to remove coop cards and cups


Annual Dinner & Meeting location
Jack's Cabin
851 Martin St.
Greenville, OH 45331

[Russ Blair]

It looks like there were 185 Bantam and 99 Large Fowl Ameraucana entered in the open class. I can't wait to see them all on exhibit. I spent today bathing and fine tuning some of my better birds. If I get the numbers for the junior class I will post them as well.