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Local Teen’s Hobby Becomes Award Winning!

January 25, 2014 by Karen Donaldson

Thirteen year old Parker Wildermuth, a 7th grader at Continental Local Schools, showed her poultry at the Ohio Nationals in Columbus on November 12th and 13th. This event is the largest poultry show in North America with over 6,500 birds entered. Some of the top breeders in the world attend and show at the Ohio Nationals. This was Parker’s first time showing her poultry outside of 4-H and the Putnam County Fair and Parker placed 9 of the 11 birds she took. There were 501 children in her division and she won the following:

Best of Breed – Female Mandarin Duck
Reserve Best of Breed – Male Mandarin Duck
Best of Variety – Male Columbian Wyandott
Reserve Best of Variety – Female Columbian Wyandott
First Place – Milles Fluer D’Uccle Rooster
Third Place – Serama Rooster
Third Place – Serama Hen
Fourth Place – Serama Hen
Table Top Champion with her Serama Rooster

Parker, daughter of Bryan & Jetta Wildermuth, has been raising poultry since she was 3 years old and not just the regular farm chickens and ducks. She has some of the rarest breeds of fowl and poultry. She saves all of her grade card money, birthday, and Christmas money to purchase the birds she wants to add to her flock. Parker raises several varieties of quail, chickens, ducks, pigeons, and geese. She has become friends with many breeders from around the world and currently has several F1 birds in her flock. F1 birds are first generation as their parents have come from different countries to the United States. F1’s are the immediate offspring hatched in the US from the imported birds.

While at the Ohio Nationals, Parker had the opportunity to meet P. Allen Smith, expert gardener and host of Garden Home and Garden to Table. He was there to purchase heritage poultry from children at the show. Although Parker doesn’t show Heritage Breeds, she was able to spend some time with him – another great experience of the show. Parker was also invited to show her birds at a large poultry show in Lucasville in April. Congratulations Parker!!

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About Karen Donaldson

Karen Donaldson is a life long resident of Continental, Ohio, a class of 78' graduate and is also the co-owner of Continental eNews. Karen is the primary author and news manager for Continental eNews.

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