Ameraucana National Meet in Lebanon, IN

[John W Blehm]

National Weather Service 

Extended Forecast for Lebanon IN

Friday - Mostly sunny, with a high near 61.

Friday Night - Mostly clear, with a low around 39.

Saturday - Sunny, with a high near 57.

Saturday Night - Mostly clear, with a low around 37.

Sunday - Sunny, with a high near 61.

[Beth Curran]

High 57-61 and no rain - I may not want to come home!

[Mike Gilbert]

Beth, if the birds are too young to tell males from females, personally I would not bring them.    I know you have already spent the entry fee money, but we will have a reasonably good showing anyway, and we don't do ourselves any favors by showing less than fair quality birds.  Most of mine are too young as well, but there is no doubt which are pullets and which are cockerels.  I'm only showing eight Ameraucanas, six bantams and two large fowl.

[John W Blehm]

160 Ameraucanas total, between the open and jr shows!

John, Paul and Ron,
Nice turnout of Ameraucanas.  60 large fowl and 66 bantams entered.  We will give the Ameraucana Alliance $200. in cash for awards or (whatever you want)for having over 100 birds entered.  We have 66 AOSB entered and 145 AOCCL entered.
Doug 

Also, Jr. show- 25 Ameraucana bantams and 9 Ameraucana large fowl.
Doug

What a great show club to work with.  Doug keeps as up to date and having this info before a meet is pretty much unheard of.

[Beth Curran]

Love those numbers!!

[Beth Curran]

Beth, if the birds are too young to tell males from females, personally I would not bring them.    I know you have already spent the entry fee money, but we will have a reasonably good showing anyway, and we don't do ourselves any favors by showing less than fair quality birds.  Most of mine are too young as well, but there is no doubt which are pullets and which are cockerels.  I'm only showing eight Ameraucanas, six bantams and two large fowl.

I'm embarrassed to even tell you how old they are, but fairly sure you would have no problem telling them apart, I'm just really bad at it. Really. Bad.  I did end up scratching them, along with a couple others that just weren't ready. I was scrapping the bottom of the barrel trying to get to that 100 mark, but we're well past it, and besides the entry fees were paid I don't think they'd count it against us anyway.

Truck halfway loaded, see you guys soon!

[John W Blehm]

I just finished loading the trailer and we'll pull out at 8 in the morning.  See you all there!

[Mike Gilbert]

Waiting for Bob and Sandy Rennolet to arrive.   They will sleep over here and we will leave as soon as we can get loaded in the morning.

[Beth Curran]

Heading out about late, intended to leave at 2am and it's almost 4:30am, I'll be cutting it close for dinner but fingers crossed! Stay safe, everyone, see you soon!