It’s hard to believe that it’s 2020 now. Hope everyone will have a happy and healthy year ahead. At this time I have 3 settings of eggs in the incubator. Of course all standards. I usually put lights on them November 1st. to get them in good production by mid December. Gotta get some ready for the fall shows. Will be setting bantams in February to get them ready also. Hope y’all will be getting birds hatched and ready for this fall.

This year the 2020 national will be in Norman Oklahoma (Nov. 7, Canadian Valley Poultry Club’s Mega Show) and my partner and me will be traveling there. We are showing under T&M Sumatras. It is 28 hours away for me but it’s a great show to attend.

Tom Kernan

Due to Newcastle disease in California, the 2019 National Sumatra Meet is cancelled. The Pacific Poultry Breeders Show, the host, had to cancel their show which was set for the first week end of February, 2019

See more about the White Sumatra bantams of Katrina Kuivinen in the Fall, 2016 Newsletter of the American Sumatra Association.  This newsletter was e-mailed to all members on 12-19-16.

Champion AOCCL

Champion AOCCL, Black Sumatra bantam cockerel by Doug Akers; at the Indiana State Fair Open Show (1400 birds), August, 2016 and the White River Show (800 birds) Sept. 2016

Tom Kernan, of New Jersey, won the Champion Bantam of Show and Reserve Super Grand  Champion with a Black Sumatra C at the 1700+ bird Southern Ohio Poultry Show, held May 28 &29, 2016 in Lucasvillle.  The event hosted the Sumatra National Meet which was postponed from 2015 due to avian influenza fears.