Buckeyes win BIG at the Montgomery County Fair

Dayton, Ohio – September 1, 2012 - The Montgomery County Fair in SW Ohio was the place to be for the 4H Jr. Poultry Exhibition this past Saturday.  Many area kids representing various chapters of 4H clubs like Miami Producers, Happy Farmers, Sunset Riders, Tom’s Run, All-Star 4H and the Green Pride were on hand showing their Market fowl and Fancy chickens.  One local winner was Ally Whitaker, of the Miami Producers 4H club, and on this particular Saturday she took 15 first place Blue Ribbons home, showing everyone hard work pays off!  The largest class of “Fancy” fowl this year was the American Class where Ally took top honors with her Buckeye Cock winning Champion American and Reserve Champion Large Fowl. (see picture below)
 

                                                     Ally Whitaker and her Champion Buckeye

During the competition the judge was very pleased to see Ally showing a total of Four (4) Buckeyes at the fair and her Buckeye hen received high marks from the judge as well.  In addition to her award winning Buckeyes, Ally won Champion Small Duck and Champion Waterfowl with a Black East Indies hen.  It was a GREAT day for Ally and Whitaker Farms of Miamisburg, Ohio and The American Buckeye Club wishes to congratulate her for a GREAT victory!

                                                  Judging Ally Whitaker's Champion Buckeye

Fair Season is in FULL SWING all over the Buckeye Nation!!!

Here in Ohio and ALL over the USA County and State Fairs are taking center stage.  With many of our American Buckeye Club members and their families involved in 4H we have been seeing a lot of smiling faces with trophies and blue ribbons alike in the poultry competition!  Yes the Buckeyes are doing very well it seems and with any luck we will be seeing more happy kids in the coming weeks.  Below are just a few of the BIG winners during the 2012 fair season;

Rebekah Zeigler’s daughter Emily took 2nd place with her pullet and 3rd place with her cockerel at the Hartford fair near their home in Central Ohio. The judge said she had the best Buckeye pullet in the barn!!

 

 
Jason Barnett’s daughter took a first place for her Buckeye in the LF fancy division at the Clark County Fair in Ohio.  She was one happy girl (and so was dad);

At the Weld County Fair in Colorado back in July, the Kanzler Family did very well with their 4H projects including their poultry!  Below is a photo of the Kanzler gals and their tropies;

 David Schneider of Milan, IN reported his boys, Logan & Hunter did very well with their RED fowl in their 4H county fair recently.  They knocked down FIRST & SECOND place ribbons for their RIR hen and pullet!  David recently purchased some Buckeye Pullets from Shumaker Farm’s of Wilmington, Ohio so watch for his boys to win with another RED fowl in the future!!! Logan & Hunter are happy poultry owners in the picture below;

Congratulations to ALL the 4H kids and their parents for helping them get started showing poultry and raising Buckeyes!  If you are an ABC member and have photos of your child or grandchild participating with their poultry at your local county or state fair please share them with us an we will see they get posted.  4H is a GREAT way to get a child started in poultry and it helps build their self esteem as well as teaching them life long lessons!  The American Buckeye Club is a proud sponsor of the 4H program and we encourage our members to support 4H, too.

Buckeye Grand Champions at Ohio & Iowa County Fairs

It’s County Fair Season and all over the USA the young men and women involved with 4H are showing some very nice poultry!  The American Buckeye Club is always interested in hearing success stories involving children in the poultry world but this was a special week for a variety of reasons.  We received news about 2 members with children participating in 4H that did extremely well with their Buckeye Large Fowl this week.  In Cedar County, Iowa the Jensen family is proud to announce Parker Jensen had the Grand Champion American with a Buckeye Cock and the #1 Buckeye Cockerel in the Large Fowl Junior Division (see picture below).

                                                   (photo courtesy of Lisa Jensen)

The American Buckeye Club would like to congratulate Parker and his family for a job well done!

In addition, the Clinton County Fair in Ohio is home to the Shumaker Family and Sydney Shumaker had an outstanding day on Friday July 13^th.  Winning 15 Blue Ribbons and 5 Trophies in ALL, Sydney took Grand Campion Male and Overall BEST of Show with her Buckeye Cock (see picture below)! 

                           (Sydney Shumaker & her Grand Champion Buckeye Cock)

She also won the BEST Trio and top honors for Egg Production with her Buckeyes.  Sydney made a clean sweep of the American Class having not only the #1 Cock but the #1 Cockerel and #1 Hen (both Buckeyes) and the #1 pullet, a Rhode Island Red.  This pullet went on to win Grand Champion Female, too!  Below are pictures of Sydney with both Grand Champion fowl and the BEST TRIO at the Clinton County, Ohio event. 

                                             (pictures courtesy of Amy & Joe Shumaker)

Congratulations again to Sydney Shumaker and Parker Jensen for helping promote the Buckeye breed and we hope more members will provide photos of their winning Buckeye’s in the coming months!  4H is a GREAT place to get kids interested in raising poultry and a super way to introduce them to Buckeyes.  If you want to get your children involved contact your local county 4H club, generally you can find more information thru your county fair or their website.

           (Sydney Shumaker's Grand Champion, Overall BEST of Show Buckeye Cock)

Ohio county fair season underway....Buckeyes are winning, too!

It's hard to believe, but county fair season is already underway here in Ohio and every year we are seeing more and more Buckeye chickens entered in the poultry shows.  Both 4H junior exhibitors and the open classes in many Ohio counties are seeing an influx of Buckeyes!  This is GREAT news for the Buckeye breed and it reflects the efforts and hard work by the American Buckeye Club members who are doing ALL they can to "Preserve the Breed".

For example, just this week on Monday, June 18th at the Pickaway County Fairgrounds near Circleville, Ohio we witnessed one of the FIRST county fair Buckeye winners!  Gabrielle Rybinski and her Buckeye pullet took the "Blue Ribbon" for BEST pullet and the Rybinski family is very proud of their daughters accomplishment.

The American Buckeye Club would like to congratulate Gabrielle Rybinski and thank her family for keeping the Buckeye heritage alive and well in Pickaway County, Ohio!  In addition, the ABC is providing a link to ALL the Ohio County Fairs below and we encourage EVERYONE to visit their county fairs this year and look for the Buckeyes. http://www.ohiofairs.org/listoffairs.html

Please help the ABC by supporting the 4H chapters ALL over Ohio, after all the 4H program began here in Ohio back in 1902 and children are the future of poultry keeping!  If you have a child or children in 4H and participate in a county fair with Buckeyes please send us pictures or post them at the Facebook group.  We will be posting ALL the show winners that we receive throughout the 2012 fair season!

New ABC logo T-Shirts available!!!

The American Buckeye Club introduced a "NEW" club LOGO t-shirt in late May and they were available for sale to members at the June 9th Canfield, Ohio ABC annual meet!  Now they are being offered for sale here at the website for $12 each plus $5 shipping.  These shirts are very high quality Jerzee brand "Heavy Weight Cotton" in Cardinal RED with the original 1909 club LOGO in bright white. 

They are selling fast and EVERY Buckeye breeder/owner would love wearing one!  To purchase send an email to jefflay@woh.rr.com with your mailing address and size desired.  All proceeds go toward maintaining the club website, purchasing trophies and ribbons for shows, advertising brochures and to help promote the Buckeye breed in various ways.

Finally, the ABC "Chicken Tees" are also still available and they too are $12 each plus $5 shipping.  The "original" Buckeye "Chicken Tee" is also a Jerzee brand Heavy Weight Cotton T-Shirt in BRIGHT RED with the outline of a Buckeye Rooster and the ABC website address.  You can see a picture of this shirt below as worn by Sydney Shumaker and her father Joe, of Shumaker Farms, Wilmington, Ohio!

Thanks to ALL the ABC members who have already purchased their "Tees" in support of "Preserving the Buckeye breed" and just for the record we now have nearly 140 "Buckeye Chicken" Facebook Group members!  As always the ABC remains the "Original" and now the LARGEST Buckeye club on the internet and we continue to grow.  To join the BEST group of Buckeye Chicken fans on Facebook go to this link; http://www.facebook.com/groups/126598094076064/

1st Annual ABC Poultry Show a Success!!!

June 9, 2012 Canfield, Ohio-  The American Buckeye Club (ABC) held it's FIRST annual meet at the Buckeye Fancy Feather Club Poultry Show on Saturday June 9, 2012 and it was a tremendous success!  Many ABC members attended and TWENTY (20) Buckeyes were on hand for the judging, 14 in the Open and 6 in the Junior class. This made the Buckeye one of the largest groups of birds in the American Class within the Large Fowl category.  In typical fashion, Sydney Shumaker of Shumaker Farms did very well in both classes.  Below are the results as tabulated by the ABC, we are still awaiting the "official" results from the Buckeye Fancy Feather Club;

Open

BB - Buckeye Cock - Clifford Calhoun of Astabula, Ohio
RB - Buckeye Cock - Shumaker Farms of Wilmington, Ohio
#1 - Buckeye Cockerel - Shumaker Farms of Wilmington, Ohio
#2 - Buckeye Cockerel - Richard Presley of Marengo, Ohio
#3 - Buckeye Cockerel - Shumaker Farms of Wilmington, Ohio
#1 - Buckeye Hen - Jeff Lay of Miamisburg, Ohio
#1 - Buckeye Pullet - Jeff Lay of Miamisburg, Ohio

Junior

BB - Buckeye Cockerel - Sydney Shumaker of Wilmington, Ohio
RB - Buckeye Cockerel - Dawson Latham of Wapakoneta, Ohio
#3 - Buckeye Cockerel - Alex Presley of Marengo, Ohio
#1 Buckeye Hen - Sydney Shumaker of Wilmington, Ohio
#1 Buckeye Pullet - Alex Presley of Marengo, Ohio

(from right to left are Clifford Calhoun Champion Buckeye Cock Open class, Sydney Shumaker Champion Buckeye Cockerel Junior class and Dawson Latham Reserve Champion Buckeye Cockerel Junior class.)

In addition to the Trophies awarded by the American Buckeye Club, both the Champions received a 4 pound bag of Omega Ultra Egg supplement compliments of our Sponsor Omega Fields company!  Dawson Latham was also awarded a special ABC "club trophy" for BEST COLOR for his Buckeye Cockerel in the Junior Class.  We wish to thank all the folks who attended and exhibited their Buckeyes, we enjoyed meeting with everyone and had a great time!  In addition, thanks to the APA judges Gary Overton and Lewis Cunningham as well as the GREAT folks at the Buckeye Fancy Feather Club, Tom Moore - President, Paul Simmons - Vice President and Rhonda Simmons - Secretary/Treasurer.

Congrats to Sydney Shumaker of Shumaker Farms....

On Memorial Day Weekend (May 26 & 27, 2012) the Shumaker clan were exhibiting their poultry at the Lucasville, OH show and at the end of the judging Sydney Shumaker's Buckeye Cock won Champion American and overall Reserve Champion Large Fowl.  We would like to congratulate her for a job well done!

(Sydney with her 4 Time Champion American Buckeye Cock and trophies.)

Shumaker Farms will have this Buckeye alongside several others at the American Buckeye Club's First Annual Meet in Canfield, Ohio on June 9, 2012.  The Buckeye Fancy Feather's Club is sponsoring this APA sanctioned event and we hope to see a number of ABC members exhibiting and/or visiting the show.  Good Luck to EVERYONE who is showing on Saturday!!!