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Brown Bar: Wing shields, breast, and back a
clear medium brownish-gray. Head,
neck, rump, tail, and
flights a darker shade of brownish-gray with a metallic
green and pink luster evident on the neck. Wings to have
two distinct dark brownish-gray bars with the shield
area free of any checkering. The tail terminating in a
dark brownish-gray bar with a narrow final tip of
lighter brownish-gray. Beak and toenails horn color.
BROWN CHECK AND BROWN T-PATTERN CHECK: Same as
the brown bar, except the wing shields. See "check
pattern notes". Beak and toenails horn color.
Brown Self:
(Spread Brown): An even shade of dark chocolate brown
throughout. Beak and toenails horn color.
Khaki Bar:
(Dilute Brown Bar): Wing shields, breast, and back a
creamy light brownish-gray. Head, neck, rump, tail, and
flights a slightly darker shade of brownish-gray with a
delicate green and pink luster evident in the neck.
Wings to have two distinct light brownish-gray bars with
the shield area free of any checkering. The tail
terminating in a light brownish-gray bar with a narrow
final tip of lighter brownish-gray. Beak and toenails
light horn color.
KHAKI CHECK AND KHAKI T-PATTERN CHECK:
Same as the khaki bar, except the wing shields. See
"check pattern notes". Beak and toenails light horn
color.
KHAKI SELF: (Spread Khaki): An even shade of
light brownish-gray throughout. Beak and toenails light
horn color.
BLUE BAR: Wing shields, breast, and back an even
shade of light blue-gray. Head, neck, rump, tail, and
flights a darker shade of blue-gray with the neck
feathers showing a rich sheen of primarily green and
secondarily purple. Wings to have two distinct black
bars with the shield area free of any checkering. The
tail terminating in a black bar with a final tip of
medium blue-gray. Beak and toenails black.
SILVER BAR: (Dilute Blue Bar): Wing shields,
breast, and back a rich, even shade of light
silvery-gray. Head, neck, rump, tail, and flights a
darker shade of silvery-gray with the neck feathers
showing a rich sheen of green metallic luster. Wings to
have two distinct dark dun bars with the shield area
free of any checkering. The tail terminating in a dun
bar with a narrow final tip of silver-gray. Beak and
toenails a dark horn color.
DUN SELF: A smooth even shade of steel gray
throughout, with the neck feathers showing a rich sheen
of green metallic luster. The shields free of any
checkering or barring. Beak and toenails a dark horn
color.
MEALY BAR: (Ash Red Bar): Wing shields, breast,
body, and tail a light lavender gray. Head and neck a
reddish-brown with a light ashy frosting and a rich
sheen of copper. Wings to have two reddish-brown bars
with the shield area free from any checkering. The tail
bar is either very faint or missing due to the "washing"
effect of the ash-red. Beak and toenails a dark reddish
horn color.
RED CHECK AND RED T-PATTERN: (Ash Red Check):
Same as mealy bar, except for the wing shields. See
"check pattern notes". The checkering is generally less
distinct than in blue and brown checks.
SPREAD ASH RED: (Lavender and Strawberry): An
even shade of lavender gray throughout. Beak and
toenails a dark reddish horn color.
CREAM BAR: (Dilute Ash Red Bar): Wing shields,
breast, body, and tail a light creamy yellow gray. Head,
neck, rump, tail, and flights a slightly darker shade of
yellow gray with a light ashy frosting. Wings to have
two yellow gray bars with the shield area free from any
checkering. The tail bar is either very faint or missing
due to the "washing" effect of the ash red. Beak and
toenails a light horn color.
YELLOW CHECK: (Dilute Ash Red Check) and YELLOW
T-PATTERN (Dilute Ash Red T-Pattern): Same as cream bar,
except the wing shields. See "check pattern notes". Beak
and toenails a light horn color.
CREAM: TDilute Spread Ash Red Bar): An even
shade of light lavender gray throughout. Beak and
toenails a light horn color.
GRIZZLE BAR: Body, head, wing shields, and rump
an even peppery combination of color and white (each
feather should display both color and white, for
example, blue grizzled with white). The neck a darker
shade of color finely grizzled, producing a frost-like
effect. Wings to have two distinct darker colored bars.
Blue, silver, brown, and khaki bar grizzles to have
flights and tails that are darker and less grizzled.
Mealy and cream bars to have flights and tails that are
darker and less grizzled and often all white or lavender
gray. Beak and toenails colored appropriately according
to the color of the bird.
TOR-GRIZECH:
CCombine the color classes grizzle check and grizzle
t-pattern with the tortoiseshell class as listed in the
color descriptions in the Chinese Owl Standard.
ANY OTHER GRIZZLE: W(AOGrizzle): Anything not
fitting above two classifications. (Colored grizzle
checks, include all spread factor birds that do not fit
into the above first 2 classifications. This would
include birds also called Stork marks).
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NOTE: The above two paragraphs updated August 5, 1991
***).
INDIGO: (Blue bar with heterozygous indigo):
Wing shields, breast, body, and tail an even shade of
light blue gray. Head, neck, rump, tail, and flights a
darker shade with the neck feathers showing a rich sheen
of green. Wings to have two distinct rust-red (bronze)
bars with the shield area free of any checkering. The
tail bar is either faint or light rust red. Beak and
toenails black.
INDIGO CHECK: (Blue check and blue
t-pattern/heterozygous indigo): Same as indigo bar
except the wing shields show a distinct and even
checkering of blue-gray, black, and rust red. See "check
pattern notes".
ANDALUSIAN: (Spread blue with heterozygous
indigo): An even shade of dark blue gray throughout with
a delicate black lacing (edging) occurring on the body
and shields. The breast and neck lightly laced shading
gradually to a solid dark blue gray head. The flights
and tail blue gray with black shaft. Beak and toenails
black.
RECESSIVE RED: A deep even shade of chestnut red
throughout with the neck showing a rich sheen of
metallic copper. Plumage free from any blue tints. Beak
and toenails a light horn color.
RECESSIVE YELLOW: (Dilute recessive red): A deep
even shade of golden yellow throughout with the neck
showing a rich pink sheen. Beak and toenails a light
horn color.
WHITE SELF: A clear white throughout. Beak and
toenails very light horn.
PIED OR SPLASH: Colored bird with between 1/3
(33%) to 2/3 (67%) of its plumage an evenly dispersed
white. Beak and toenails colored according to the color
of the bird.
BODY MARKS: A colored bird with a white tail.
Beak and toenails appropriate to bird’s color.
ALMOND: A rich shade of golden yellow almond
with black splashes dispersed throughout. Flights and
tail an even variegated combination of almond-yellow,
black, and white. Beak and toenails horn color.
SADDLE: A white bird with its wing shield areas
colored. The ten outside wing feathers (primaries) to be
white. Beak and toenails colored appropriately to the
color of the shield area.
QUALMOND: Approved 1989. Qualmond bar, qualmond
check, and qualmond t-pattern shall compete against each
other in the proper sex classes until some future time
as the membership feels there are enough numbers to
divide them into bar and check classes.
A.O.C.
: (Any Other Color): This class to include color
and/or patterns not provided for in the official color
standard. AOC could, at present, include such
colors/patterns as laced, reduced, opals, toy stencil,
bronzes, baldhead, barless, magpie, any indigos except
blue heterozygous, tailmarks, etc. When five or more
good quality (in the opinion of the judge) AOC’s of a
single color/pattern are shown, they shall become a
judging class with no separation of sexes or ages.
CHECK PATTERN NOTES: For show purposes, all
check patterns of a particular color are combined into
one check class for that color. Since there are at least
two or three genetically distinct check patterns
(actually, probably many more), and because they are all
combined into one class, care must be taken to avoid the
tendency of comparing one pattern to another and saying
that one is better than the other because its checks are
more open or more closed. Openness or closeness of the
checks shouldn’t be discriminated against in the show
room, because one check pattern is not preferred over
the other. However, it is important that the checking be
uniform over the entire shield and that the checking on
one wing is the same as the checking on the other.
T-pattern or black check is the darker, closed check
pattern and can vary from the standard t-pattern which
shows a light colored "T" in the shield feathers to a
bird with a near solid colored shield. The "T"s must be
uniform over the shield and not just clumps here and
there. If it is a solid shielded t-pattern, the shield
must be solid overall (the rest of the bird will
resemble a check).
Medium and light checks have more open checking and this
checking must be uniform over the entire shield area.
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