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raised
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Head: Always clean rather long and forming a
regular curve.
Eyes:
In barless, porcelain, white bar and spangled: dark eyes
(bull); Black barred, checkered (muffed), Forellen
(clean legged checkered), have yellow to orange eyes.
Beak: Long and thin, black in color, wattle
small and white powdered.
Throat: Well cut out. (No gullet)
Neck: Short, carried slightly forward. Medium in
center, wide-set at the shoulders.
Breast: Broad, low, full. Feathers from the
breast should cover wing butts to give a round
appearance when viewed from the front.
Back: Wide at the shoulders, tapering off
downward and sloping slightly.
Wings: Medium long, resting on top of tail, the
wings should be held tight to the body, (no protruding
wing butts). They should also cover well over the back
without sticking up over the rump area, (sideboards),
they should not cross at the tips.
Tail: Medium long, firmly closed. Slightly
downward, almost horizontal.
Legs:
Clean legged: Bright red in color, dark
toenails.
Muffed: Short, heavily muffed with long hock
feathers. Muffs should sweep back into the hocks having
a sickle like appearance, fan shaped with no split in
the feathers between the front and second toes. The
shape of the foot feather is more important than length,
however, the foot feathers should not be less than three
inches long.
Feathering: Soft and full, with much feather
powder to make the color delicate and soft.
Color: In all markings the ground color should
be pure ice blue, as light and soft as possible, so
light as to appear almost white. They must resemble the
color of ice from pure clear water. The entire body is
provided with a layer of white powder. Each bird
produces this powder in varying amounts. If a healthy,
well cared for Ice Pigeon is held for a short length of
time, especially against a black coat or jacket, one
will look as if they have paid a visit to a miller. No
part of the body should show any other color tone except
for the flights and the tail bar, which should be as
dark as possible, approaching black. There also must be
a band of ground color beyond the dark tail bar. The
wedge under the tail should also exhibit the same color
as the remainder of the bird. Wedge feathers must be
present for the judge to view.
Markings:
Barless: Devoid of any marking on the wing
shield.
White Bar: Are similar to the barless except for
two pure white wing bars with a thin black border
parallel to each other. These bars must be in good
contrast to the ground color. They must go across the
entire length of the shield, with the black edging
remaining as straight as possible.
Spangle: Are similar to the barless, except the
wing shield shows a 3-cornered pure white, narrow
black-bordered check. The pattern should be triangular
in shape, white with a fine edged border in black on the
light ice blue background. The pattern must be even over
the entire wing coverts in the spangles. The flight
feathers in this marking sometimes show grizzling, which
is allowed, but solid colored flights are preferred. The
pattern must be even throughout. No rust should be
present, in either the spangling or the flights, also
the spangling must not extend up on the neck of the
bird.
Black Barred Show two deeply colored black bars.
The bars should be narrow and even from top to bottom.
They must go across the entire length of the shield and
parallel to each other.
Black Checked Have a dark triangular pattern over
a light background color. The pattern must be even over
the entire wing coverts. No rust should be present in
either the checking or the flights. (When clean legged,
it is called Forellen).
Porcelain This marking is the same as spangled,
except on the spangling it has four colors. A yellowish
brown color appears between the white spot and the black
edging. This marking was bred many years ago in Germany
and is very rare today if bred at all.
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