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other
colors have pearl eyes.
Cere:
Style 1 - Multiple rings but not coarse, flesh
colored.
Style 2 - Smaller, flesh color to grayish.
Beak: Slightly angled to forehead.
Style 1 - Slightly shorter than medium length.
Style 2 - Medium length. (Blues and blue check
(mottle) dark in color; all others including black flesh
colored; Elster with snip. Beak wattles should be smooth
not coarse.
Neck: Erect and carried slightly backwards.
Style 1 - Short.
Style 2 - Somewhat longer.
Breast:
Style 1 - Broad, rounded, and protruding.
Style 2 - Somewhat smaller (narrow and not as
protruding, with both types, the width of the front
should blend well overall and fall off in line to the
tip of the tail.
Wings: Powerful, wide, tightly closed, resting
on the tail.
Tail: Not too long, and slightly falling off
from the back. Tail should not touch the floor.
Legs:
Style 1 - Short, unfeathered, toe nails to match
color of beak.
Style 2 - Somewhat longer; unfeathered, toe nails
to match color of beak.
Plumage: Short; tightly feathered.
Colors:
Solid: black, white, red, yellow, blue, blue
check, red check, yellow check, AOC.
Mottle on neck in: reds and yellows, ash red, ash
yellow, silver dilute.
Elster markings in: black, red, yellow, blue, and
silver.
Color and Marking:
Solid: Color soft/satiny and clean,
checks/mottles and ashes - clean as possible.
Mottled necks: White base color on heads, and
many colored feathers on head, neck, and crest.
Mottles: Solid color background with white
feathers over entire bird. Multi-color (AOC) to have at
least 3 colors prevailing in various patterns, mottle,
tigered, etc.
Elster marking: Clean white colored head with
colored forehead snip. A white spot under the beak,
crest to be colored, back is white.
{references in Order of Importance: Overall
impression/style of bird - Body structure - Head
structure with beak position - Crest and eye color -
Color and marking. |
