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Origin:
May be related to the Danish and Dutch Tumblers; they
are only bred with a shorter beak, head, and figure.
General Impressions:
Dainty, lively, graceful; smaller the better.
Breed
Characteristics:
Head: Round either plainheaded or crested,
well-developed rosettes and rounded crest.
Eyes:
Pearl colored; ceres narrow and pale, faded red
permissible.
Beak: Barely medium long, preferably shorter,
blunt and closed. Color white; in blue, silver, and
isabel darker permissible; wattles soft.
Neck: Short, pulled back and bent toward back;
throat rather sharply cut out.
Breast: Round, wide, protruding; stomach filled
out.
Back: Straight, rather short, a bit sloping.
Wings: Lying on tail.
Tail: Medium long, closed, minimum 12 feathers.
Legs: Short, clean legged.
Plumage: Well developed, wide but not long.
Color Varieties:
Magpie (Elster): black, red, yellow, blue,
silver, and isabel.
Colored Tail: black, red, yellow, blue,
and silver.
Selfs: in white only.
White-tailed: black, red, yellow, blue, silver,
isabel, and blue check.
White-flighted and White-tailed: black, red,
yellow, blue, silver, and isabel.
Color and Markings:
Magpie: all colors intensive. Blue, silver, and
isabel without any dark shading on neck; complete magpie
pattern, the heart marking not too wide or not too
narrow; sharp dividing line on breast and tail.
Colored Tail: white until tail which is intensely
colored above and below.
White: pure white.
White-tailed: all colors intensive; blue, silver,
and isabel without shading on neck; colored until tail;
narrow, intensely colored bars for blue, silver, and
isabel.
White-flighted and White-tailed: All colors
intensive; blue, silver, and isabel without shading on
neck; 7 - 10 pure white flights preferably like number,
if possible also upper wing covering white, but feathers
on wing buffs colored. The white-tail must be with the
7th to 9th flights match up. Intensively colored bars in
blue, silver, and isabel.
Evaluation: Overall appearance - Head - Beak -
Body size - Color and pattern - Cere color
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GROSS FAULTS:
For all color
varieties:
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Coarse or too
long bodies.
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Cornered
head.
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Open beak.
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Red eye cere.
Magpie:
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Colored
thighs.
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Colored
feathers on wings, on stomach, under wings and hind part.
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Slate in wing
feathers, beard, different from beak in color.
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White
feathers in tail.
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White
feathers in eye area.
Colored
Tailed:
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White under
tail or slate in tail.
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Color other
than beak.
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Fault with
tail (count or color).
Whites:
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Colored beak.
White-tailed:
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White on
shoulders (inside the butts).
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Bluish color
under wings of reds and yellow, on lower back or stomach.
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Running rusty
colored bars on blue, silver, or isabel.
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Colored
feathers on lower rump.
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Missing tail
feathers.
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Colored under
tail.
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Wrong beak
color.
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Colored
feathers in tail.
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White
feathers in eye area.
White-flighted
and White-tailed:
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White
feathers in eye area in beard.
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White belly
or thigh feathers.
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Mis-colored
lower rump feathers with blue, silver, or isabel.
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Colored under
tail.
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Colored flight
between white ones.
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Incorrect
number of tail feathers.
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False colored
beak.
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