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Origin:
Saxony
Overall Impression:
Strong, low standing field pigeon type; well developed
muffs; plain headed, shell crested, or double crested.
Breed
characteristics:
Head: Oval, arched, reasonably high forehead;
plain headed, shell crested, or double crested; crest
set well on head, broad, thick, ending on each side with
rosettes. Beak crest (rose) medium size, some
substructure is permitted.
Eyes:
Dark; eye cere small,light flesh colored to red.
Beak: Long; flesh colored.
Breast: Broad, well rounded and carried forward.
Wings: Strong, long, broad feathered.
Tail: Long, closed, almost horizontal.
Legs and Feet: Deep standing, long and dense
muffs and also hock feathers.
Feathering: Richly developed, yet not loose.
Colors: Black, red, yellow, and blue with white
bars or spangles, blue with black bars or barless, blue
check, silver check.
Color Markings: The lacquer colors pure and
lustrous, blue light and even; bars are pure, as narrow
as possible, eve, continuous, parallel; blues have a
narrow black border at the back edge of each bar.
Spangles are triangular and evenly distributed on wing
shield. Ground color white; wing shield and thumb
feathers are colored. The red and yellows may have light
fading on the end of the secondaries if the bars are
pure. Seven to ten flights are white.
Order of Evaluation: Overall impression - body
strength - color - markings - bars or spangles - muffs -
crest and beak crest (rose) -beak - eye color.
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We are currently
looking for a picture of a Saxon Shield. If any of you
have raised a champion and have a picture, please send it to
azpigeonclub.org
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MAJOR FAULTS:
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Weak body.
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Too short.
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Sparse or
badly damaged muffs.
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Small or
distorted crest.
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Very small or
pinched nose crest (rose).
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Color in
beak.
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Dull or
impure color.
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Rust or
strong peppering in bars of spangles.
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Very broad,
short, considerably crooked or broken bars.
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Visible
evidence of third bar.
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White flights
between colored flights.
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Too few or
too many white flights.
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More than two
white or absence of colored thumb feathers.
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Colored
sides, thighs or back.
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