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Origin Developed since the turn of the century
through appropriate cross-breeding of outstanding German
Show Racing Pigeons with related breeds.
General Characteristics: Appearance of a
vivacious and keen breeder and flyer with the
characteristics of the show racing pigeon in the broader
sense of word, giving an impression of intelligence;
compact and vigorous form, racy, streamlined,
wedge-like, nearly horizontally carried body, whose
every part is joined through smoothly flowing lines
creating a harmonious whole.
Head: Broad above the eye, narrowing gradually
wedge-like toward the forehead and beak. In profile beak
and forehead show a slightly convex line which without
interruption passes into the arched head. The back of
the head passes into the smooth round line toward the
neck. The whole head should have no indication of
weakness, or flatness; it should not have a thin face.
Beak:
Medium long, harmoniously proportioned, full, blunt,
with wedges closely fitting and whose backward extension
should pass approximately through the middle of the
eyes. Color: Black; however, more or less horn-colored
on light colors, and on pure reds; light on white; on
splashes and tigered either light or dark according to
the base color.
Wattle: Smooth in texture, firm and smoothly
resting on the beak, not surpassing the curved line of
the head; long, solid, continuous blossom white powdered
line, slightly heart-shaped and well and evenly divided.
Eye: Large, somewhat protruding, bright, with
dark red iris. Whites should have dark eyes, splashes
and tigered according to the base color either dark or
dark red eyes.
Cere: Small fine laced, light gray to whitish
color.
Throat:
Smoothly rounded out, with no suggestion of protruding
gullet.
Neck: Full set on broad shoulders, of medium
length, tapering toward the end into a wedge-like form.
Powerful, racy and only slightly sloping.
Wings:
Strong, the butts fairly prominent, well-closed with
broad, hard flights, the back smoothly covered and
giving the appearance of flight-readiness.
Tail: Short and narrow, extending beyond the
flights by the width of a thumb.
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Gross Faults:
All
obvious faults which reduce the impression of a beautiful racing
pigeon such as:
Coarse, rough
face.
Alert
head and beak type.
All
features which disturb the general characteristics of the German
Beauty Homer as described above with regard to the following
aspects: plumpness, length, heaviness, station, size of the wattle
and overall size of the bird as well as poor posture.
Narrow,
pointed chest.
Underweight, square head.
Gullet, open beak.
White, yellow, colorless or broken eyes.
Two eyes of
different color.
Red cere.
Frills or
fluffles.
Dewlap of
paunch.
DVisible
white back.
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Legs:
Strong, medium long, free from feathers. Half of the
hocks should be visible. The feet should be red,
toenails the same color as the beak.
Plumage:
Well-developed, smooth, tight, and hard.
Color and Markings:
All colors should be clear, regular, and of good sheen.
The ground color should cover the whole body. Checkers
and T-patterns should not only show the markings of the
wings but also on the back, breast, and thighs. Bars
should be small throughout, separated on the back and of
intensive color. Tigered marks either white on dark
ground or dark on white ground, should be evenly
distributed. Tail and flights must be colored. Splashes
as well as tigered birds must have a relatively even
color distribution. Birds with only a few white or
colored feathers are not considered as tigered or
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