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Homeland:
Saxony and Bohemia.
Appearance:
Blocky, the size of a field pigeon (common pigeon),
heavily muffed, squatty in appearance, shell crested or
smooth headed.
Breed Characteristics:
Head: Dove like in those birds without crest
(Silesian Swallows). Higher in the frontal and wider at
the back of the skull for those birds with shell crest.
Size of the head most be in proportion to the size of
the body. Not snake headed. In crested birds, the shell
is round, thick and ending on both sides in well defined
rosettes.
Eyes:
Dark (bull), eye cere small, with skin color flesh color
to red, fine in texture.
Beak: Moderately long, by red and yellow flesh
color, by black the upper beak is black, by blue
blue-black to black, by silver light horn color (found
mostly toward the front of the beak), lower beak flesh
color for all feather colors.
Neck: Moderately short, full where the neck
joins the body and having the appearance of a bull neck
in crested varieties, neck well rounded.
Breast: Broad, full, and somewhat protruding.
Back: Broad and slightly sloping.
Wings: Powerful, well feathered and not crossing
at the tail. Top of wing feathers to blend smoothly into
the saddle (heart).
Tail: Moderately short, well closed and not
touching the floor.
Legs and Feet: Legs short, feet heavily muffed
with three layers of feathers, front feathers of outer
layer not protruding straight in front but having a
curve-like sickle, fen shaped with no split in the
feathers between the front and second toes. Shape of
foot feather is more important than length.
Feathers: Tight feathered, rich in color in
black, red, and yellow, with good sheen; light sky blue,
cream silver, or blue-preference to be given to blue
silver other things being equal.
Color Pattern: Black, red, yellow, blue, silver,
all without bars, with white bars, or white spangled;
blue with black bars, silver with dark dun bars, blue
and silver checkered.
Tiger Swallows: The Tiger Swallow is a Spot
Swallow either crested or not crested (the latter is
preferred) with alternating colored and white feathers
in the wings and muffs. Every other feather in the
primaries, secondaries, and muffs must be white with the
exception of the first two primary flight feathers,
which should be colored. There should be a sprinkling of
white feathers on the shield of the wing.
Tiger Swallows Colors:
Black, red, yellow, silver, blue.
Reisserflugel:
Reisserflugel are ash red checks, or cream yellow
checks. These also come in ash with red bars, spread ash
(barless-lavender color as in the Lahore), cream with
yellow bars, and cream barless (which, unless carefully
examined, appear to be a solid white in color). When the
flights are closed they should be an even light
color-possibly light cream., but not white. This also
applies to the color of the muffs.
Color and Markings:
The feather color in the blue and silver light in color,
clear and even; in black, red and yellow well saturated
with color (deep in color); Spangled Swallows with solid
colored flights and muffs (but lacking in the flights
and muffs does not disqualify the bird in the shows).
Black Spangled Swallows must have so-called finch marks
(white spots) on the end of the flights (but lack of
these dots is not a disqualification). White barred
Swallows in blue and silver with clear distinct lacing
on the bars the width of a pencil mark, blue-grey or
black in color in the blues, and light (or dark) dun in
the silvers. In Spangled Swallows the lacing on the
white marking is the same as in the white barred birds,
but the front bar is jagged rather than even, and both
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MAJOR FAULTS:
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Uneven
markings.
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Two or more
white feathers next to each other in the wings or in addition to
faults listed for other Spot Swallows.
DISQUALIFICATIONS:
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Crooked beak.
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Mismarked.
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Over trimmed
(trimmed to the place where the skin shows).
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Out of
condition.
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Lack of
colored spot in Spot Swallows, or of cap in Fullhead Swallows.
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Eyes of two
different colors.
MAJOR FAULTS:
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Weak body.
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Body too
long.
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Muffs poorly
formed.
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Weak
feathered muffs.
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Lack of good
sickle to muffs.
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Too narrow or
capping crest.
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Lack of
rosettes.
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Stained lower
beak.
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Lack of color
on upper beak in blacks and blues.
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Heart too
small.
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Dull or
unclear color.
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Bronzing or
peppering (grizzling) in the flights and/or bars.
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Spangling on
foot feathers in white barred birds.
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Very broad or
broken bars.
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Tendency to
third bar
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Broken eyes.
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Legs too
long.
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Long hock
feathers.
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Too much
white in spangle marking of spangles.
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Shell crest
too low on the head.
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Crooked beak.
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Flat head.
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Wings carried
too low.
MINOR FAULTS:
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Beetle brow.
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Side boards
on wing feathers near the end of the saddle.
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Streaked
upper beak in blacks and blues.
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Slight stain
on upper beak of reds and yellows.
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Dark eye cere.
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A few colored
feathers in the heart of these do not spoil the shape of the heart
when they are removed.
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Gullet.
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Spot marking
too large or too small.
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Lack of
fullness in the colored cap at the back of the head in Fullhead
Swallows.
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Beak too
long.
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