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Origin:
An ancient breed from the south of Spain (Seville).
Referred to as the "owl pouter" but is not an African
Owl.
Overall Impression:
The Rafeno is a bird that presents a roundish figure.
The chest is wide and rounded. The bird also has a short
beak and dice-shaped head. The Rafeno should be a small
to medium-sized bird.
Breed Characteristics:
Head (20 pts.): Small and wide;
well-proportioned and square-shaped with rounded
corners. The nape should not protrude and the forehead
should be as wide as the nose care. The forehead is
broad and somewhat sunken between the eyes.
Eyes
(5 pts.):
Red in all colors except whites, which have bull eyes.
Beak
(15 pts.): Extremely short and thick with the
upper mandible curved without seeming hawk-billed.
Wattles
(15 pts.): Wide and medium-sized in young birds
and the same width as the forehead. Smooth texture
desirable but older birds have rougher waffle extending
from the corners of the upper mandible in an arch.
Chin Wattles (5 pts.): Ideally, there should be
three; one at each corner of the beak and one in the
middle which is larger. A single waffle in the center of
the beak is permitted. Absence of chin waffle is
permitted, though undesirable.
Crop
(20 pts.): Low hanging without touching the
ground. Medium-sized, pear-shaped with a vertical crease
in the center. The feathering of the crease grows toward
the center and does not show frilling.
Body
(10 pts.): Small to medium with rounded chest
and fiat back. Rump
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