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Beak: Light in color, stout, with smooth wattle carrying out its lines.

Throat: Very deep and full.

Crest: Neither peak nor shell, but about half way between these two, formed in such a way that you see a hollow section where the head feathers carry out the line of the skull back into the crest with crest feathers growing up and partly around this section. In testing you should be able to rest your finger on the bird's skull with your finger tip snugly into the crest with crest feathers coming up around your finger. Lines of the crest should be carried on down by both the mane and 'chain in an unbroken line, both peak and shell crests are to be cut 10 points. A strong good typed bird showing a very small or poor crest should be placed if it carries enough other points. No good typed bird is to be thrown out as long as it shows some crest.

Neck: Short, extra full but looking real tight in feather.

Breast: Very broad, full deep showing all the power it can, the head and neck should be held back giving the bird a "chesty" look. Keel should be straight but never cut over three points. The flesh should be bulged out on either side of the keel and breast should be wider than the depth of the bird. This does not mean that a broad shallow keeled bird should win over a deep bird for we want both depth and breadth.

Back: Straight, giving this breed something of the Carneau type rather than that

Beak, Wattle, Cere, Eye

10 pts

Throat

5 pts

Neck

10 pts

Crest

15 pts

Breast

10 pts

Back

5 pts

Keel

3 pts

Wing and Tail

10 pts

Legs and Feet

7 pts

Feather, Body, Hardness of feather

15 pts

Look of Power

10 pts


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of the king. Birds should be cut for hollow back starting from a slight swing up to a king type. But the maltese type, those showing a sharp break should be disqualified. Many of our best birds show a hollow back and such birds can be placed champion if they have the proper number of other points to carry it past a better backed bird.

Wings: Held high; tightly folded. Short and strong secondaries should cover the back and primaries and be held high enough so that the birds do not show "sails" (a very bad fault) wing buffs should help the bird look broader.

Tail: Short, well folded and carrying out the lines of the bird. Feathers in the vent, abdomen, or belly region should be tight and held close to the body, carrying out the breast lines without a break losing themselves into the lower tail coverts. Feathers on rump and upper tail coverts should also be tight and held close to the body. Wings should rest on the rump with no space between.

Legs: Tightly feathered, very muscular and showing great strength. Not too long, set apart with plenty of breast between. Shanks should be thick, showing large bone. Toes should be well spread, looking short because of their chubbiness.

Bone: Heavy throughout this breed adding to its look of great strength.

Comments: Bred in all colors. Cere to be deep red in all colors but can be dark in blacks and blues. No more than three points cut for off colored cere or eyes. Beak should be light in all colors but blues and blacks. Legs and feet, red. Birds should show as much breadth as possible. Those lacking either breadth or strength should be cut the full 10 points.


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