The American Poultry Association is pleased to honor Sandy Kavanaugh Bradley, a Dark Brahma Bantam Cockerel bred and shown by Sandy Kavanaugh A few words from Sandy Kavanaugh on this honor: Chickens have always held a special place in my life. Learning how to feed and care for them, as my Granny’s favorite grandkid, was […]
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The American Poultry Association is pleased to honor Tom Carey Tom Carey holding a male Silver Sebright and his APA Honoree plaque A few words from Tom Carey on this honor: Just like the rest of the world I find myself living in strange and uncertain times. Between an ever changing pandemic and constant controversy
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This is a reprinting of an article by Mr. H. H. Stoddard regarding the history and his views on the Standard of Perfection Through the years there have been several milestones in the history of the Standard of Perfection. Some have generated controversy, some have corrected previous wrongs and some were simply updates from prior
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We thank everyone who participated in the 2022 election and please find below the official statement from the APA secretary on the 2022 APA Election results: Dear APA Members: Below are the results of the 2022 APA Election of Officers and Directors. I am sure everyone very much appreciates the willingness of all of the
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Depicted here are the covers of the APA Standards. You will notice there are a few missing APA standard pictures, these are rare items and will be added as pictures become available. Should you have one of the missing ones, please notify us! Occasionally you will find APA standard with a different colored binding. There
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From Proceedings of the American Poultry Association held January 17, 1900 on the origin of the APA The Origin and Subsequent Meetings of the Association Mr. William H. Churchman, of Wilmington, Delaware, the first President, writes under date of November 30, 1898 on the origin of the APA: “If my memory serves me, I talked
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This article on chick raising 101 is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. Buy Chicks or Hatching Eggs? It is almost always less expensive to buy hatching eggs but there are drawbacks to getting started that way, especially for a novice. First, there is the problem of getting hatching
Several scientific studies completed in the early 1900s, including those by Bateson (1902), Hurst (1905), and Hadley (1913), found that the white Leghorn carries an autosomal gene capable of inhibiting the development of black pigment in plumage. Hadley (1913) designated this gene as “I” (inhibitor of black pigment), otherwise known as the Dominant White gene.
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From the November 1913 issue of The Farm-Poultry magazine regarding the first poultry show in America: On the 8th of October, 1849, Dr. J. C. Bennett, of Plymouth, Mass., wrote to Mr. James Pedder, editor of the Boston Cultivator, as follows: “Mr. Editor:-Permit me, through the Cultivator, to say that, as many persons have been
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Taken from the April 1908 issue of The Poultry Fancier about the Plymouth Rock Breed Standard being the first single breed standard. Secretary Hallock of the American Poultry Association announces that the Plymouth Rocks will be given the first Breed Standard under the resolutions adopted at the Niagara Palls meeting last summer. He states that
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The APA works to support the community breeding and raising Standard Bred Poultry in all its phases with a goal on breeding to the Standard of Perfection.