We would like to congratulate our newly elected officers for the 2016-2017 term:

President - Kari McKay - Widdel
​Vice President - Candace Pilarski
Secretary - Eric Bilney
Treasurer - Lora Bilney

​Committees will be forming soon, if you have any interest in joining a committee or in serving as a district director, please contact the President.  (Click on names to visit the officers' pages.)

Voting is now open by the membership for the 2014 Iowa Blue Standard.  Revision by the standard committee to better describe our breed's unique coloration, to incorporate recommended rewording, and to clarify certain descriptions.  Voting is now open to the membership for approval.  VOTE NOW!  Voting closes Sunday, June 15th at 11:59pm.

Previous Standard HERE
2014 Standard Revision HERE

Eric and Hannah at the Avoca show.

Hannah is holding "Ava" (Best of Breed at the show), while Eric is holding "Herman" (Reserved Breed of the show and named after a famous ancestor).  We welcome Hannah to the show ring and look forward to seeing them at future shows!

Way to go!

The IBCC wishes to send a warm welcome and thank you to our newly appointed district directors:

Eric Bilney
District 3 – North-Central
(IL,IA,MN,MO,NE,ND,SD,WI)

Leah Waters
District 4 – South-Central 
(AR,KS,LA,NM,OK,TX)

Daniel Peck
District 5 – Northeast 
(CT,DE,IN,ME,MD,MA,MI,NH,NJ,NY,OH,PA,RI,VT,WV)

Lincoln Montgomery-Rodgers DVM
District 6 – Southeast
(AL,FL,GA,MS,NC,SC,TN,VA) 

We do still have two districts that are as yet unassigned.  Hopefully the Iowa Blues will be moving in soon!  If you have nominations for someone (or yourself) to be district director of these districts or have questions, feel free to contact the officers. 

Currently Unassigned
District 1 – Northwest 
(AK,ID,MT,OR,WA,WY)

Currently Unassigned
District 2 – Southwest 
(AZ,CA,CO,HI,NV,UT)

Tor was kind enough to rescan the original photograph of old Herman to show the legs as well.  

Thank you, Tor!

The IBCC was recently contacted by Tor Janson of Seed Savers Exchange.  Together with Bill Muller, a discovery was made that the SSE library still contained the original photographs from Kent Whealy's article, History of the Iowa Blue.

Previously, the only copy we had obtained had badly degraded black and white copied photographs.  Tor and Bill were kind enough to send us large resolution color scans of the original photographs, these with great excitement have been added to our historical archives!  These photos mark a snapshot in time that few have witnessed of the Iowa Blue in previous decades.

Thank you Tor and Bill, from all of us Iowa Blue enthusiasts!  These photos will be very valuable to the breed and our club as we move forward.

• Tor Janson & Bill Muller (Seed Savers Exchange) - Original Photographs from Kent Whealy Article; 03/26/2014 - view larger versions of the photos here
• Kent Whealy - History of the Iowa Blue (Seed Savers Exchange) - view the article here, with updated color photos

The membership has voted to approve the proposed bylaws for the Iowa Blue Chicken Club. These are posted in the Members Only section.

Census results posted for membership, view now in the Members Only section.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the census.