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Origin: Holland.
General Appearance: Of medium size, deep and low
carried body with Iow carried breast, pretty well-filled
rump with slightly upward carried tail, suggesting the
desired boat-shape.
BREED CHARACTERISTICS
Head: Small, beautifully arched with smooth,
flowing, skull-line, round shaped from left to right;
beak and forehead form an obtuse angle (greater than 90
degree angle).
Beak:
Of medium length, thin and straight, slightly bent at
the tip; white in all color varieties.
Wattle: Very smooth, neatly fitting and powdered
white.
Eye: Situated high and deep into the skull;
pearl colored for all varieties except Magpie, these
having dark eyes.
Cere: Very delicate and narrow, narrowly
enclosing the eye, light for all varieties.
Breast:
Broad and full, somewhat prominent, carried low.
Back:
Short and broad, slightly falling off towards tail.
Body:
Short and broad at the bottom narrowing strongly towards
the tail, wedge-shaped, subsiding a bit in the back.
Abdomen:
Well tilled and well rounded.
Tail:
Short, narrow and smooth; twelve feathers nearly folded.
Wings:
Powerful, wide feathers tiffing closely to the body;
flights carried on tail and touching together.
Legs: Very short thighs, longer shanks, knee
joints turning inside and backwards; thighs provided
with long vulture-shaped hocks; shanks with heavily
feathered wide round muffs, covered with gradually
shorter growing feathers tapering toward the knee
joints; feathers overlapping regularly without gaps or |
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DISQUALIFICATIONS:
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Too large.
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Too long.
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Bid
angular head.
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Too much
forehead.
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Strongly colored or protruding eyes.
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Colored eyes for Magpies.
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Long, narrow, short or thin muffs.
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Short hard
hocks.
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Colored beak
for whiteflights, whitetail and whiteflight, and white tail.
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Dull colors.
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Insufficient
upper and/or lower tail coverts for whiteflight.
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Colored tail
feathers for whitetails.
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Less than
seven feathers in hand wings for whiteflight.
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Too much
color on wingshields for old birds.
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Much white on
head and neck for tigered birds.
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Colored eyes
for magpies.
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Missing of
spot or one or two badges.
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Tightened
spot or badges.
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Small bib.
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Dull heart
pattern.
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Colored back
and rump colored beak.
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long, misplaced feathers sticking out.
Plumage: Full and smooth, giving adequate shape
to body; tightly fitting.
Color and Markings:
Unicolored - White, black, intense red and
yellow; black barred blue with black barred tail; silver
blue with dark wing and tail bars; grey-blue with
regularly speckled head and neck; yellow silver with
colored wing and tail bars.
Tigered - Unicolored over the whole body;
wings show alternating small white and colored feathers.
Occurs in black, red, and yellow.
Whiteshield - Entirely unicolored with the
exception of the wing shields which must be pure white,
exactly limited on all sides. Occurs in black, red, and
yellow.
Whiteflight - Entirely unicolored except
for seven to ten primary flights which should be pure
white. Occurs in black, red, yellow, silver-blue and
grey-blue.
Whitetail - Entirely unicolored except for
twelve tail feathers which must be pure white. Upper and
lower tail coverts are completely colored. Occurs in all
colors and patterns.
Whiteflight-Whitetail - Here is a
combination of seven to ten primary flights with a pure
white tail inclusive upper and lower coverts which must
be clean-cut from the body.
Magpie - Head is pure white as well as a
large part of the front neck and occiput. This
oval-shaped bib pattern must extend from 2 1/2" to 3"
under the beak, exactly limited on right and left. Small
round spot on top of skull; colored badge (moustache) of
1/2" long and 3/4" wide grows slightly downward at each
side of beak. Spots and badges are closely and as
uniformly as possible limited. Breast is full colored,
reaching almost as far as the thighs; colored tail;
abdomen, back, rump, hocks, and muffs are pure white.
Occurs in black, red, yellow, blue, and dun. |
