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Jerry De Smidt
 Jerry De Smidt is the North
Central District director. He was born in Sheboygan, WI
in October 1969 where his family had a small dairy operation. Jerry has been
around animals all his life working for dairy farmers ever since he was a
young kid.
Jerry started
raising poultry while in High School but they were for eggs and meat. He
started out with Easter Eggers, commercial Leghorns and Red Stars. Jerry says “if I knew then what I know now
I would have started with exhibition birds instead of commercial birds”. In 2000 he purchased his first Ameraucana
pair of LF black, with the help of his friend Jake, from Jeoff Stevens at the
Wisconsin International Poultry Show in Janesville,
WI. Jerry now raises several varieties in LF
and bantam, including LF black, blue, buff, white, wheaten and blue
wheaten. In bantams he has black,
blue, and white. Through the years he has acquired birds form Wayne Meredith,
John Blehm, and Mike Gilbert.
Jerry and Jake go to
many shows through out the Midwestern states as far west as Colorado
and as far east as Ohio. They show many different varieties of
poultry in large fowl and bantam. They
also enjoy raising and showing registered Polled Herefords and Fullblood
Pinzgauer beef cattle.
Jerry works for Green Bay Nursery and
Landscaping in the retail store as a yard supervisor.
jwoodhaven@aol.com
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