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Body (15 pts.):
Wedge shaped, broad shoulders and somewhat cobby about
the chest. Weight, Cocks approximately 11 to 12 ounces;
Hens approximately 9 to 10 ounces.
Carriage
(10 pts.):
Upright, erect, bold and jaunty with a ready to fly
appearance. Body should be a 45 degree angle. Tip of
tail should be approximately 1/2 inch beyond the wing
tip.
Legs and Muffs
(4 pts.): Legs well set and of medium length.
Muffs should be full and of medium length (approximately
3"), but not too profuse, or from a half circle. Hocks
should have a break between muffs and hocks. Muffs on
all baldheads preferred to white in color.
Head
(8 pts.): Oval and of medium size, the head
should taper in an oval shape to back of the neck with a
fairly high rounded and somewhat broad forehead. The
head should show no acute angle or marked flatness, but
not as that of a muffed tumbler. To resemble that of a
half egg merging imperceptibly with the neck, giving a
dual look with a broad but not high forehead. Feathering
to be close and tight.
Neck
(2 pts.): Of medium length, full, broad at
shoulder. Must be capable of holding head at a 45 degree
angle and full in feather.
Eyes (5 pts.): Iris pearl or light in color.
Pupil black and as small as possible. Bull or cracked
eye will constitute an automatic disqualification.
Eye Cere (2 pts.): Small and threadlike of fine
texture. Eye cere to be closely feathered.
Wattle
(2 pts.): Small, close fitting, neat and fine in
texture. Wattle should be powdery white in color.
Beak
(5 pts.): Medium in length and thickness and
should be straight set. The line between the mandibles
if extended should pass an even line at the bottom of
the eye. Flesh colored in all Baldheads, horn or flesh
colored in selfs. Black mottles, black selfs, and black
grizzles may have a black or stained beak. In all
baldheads and yellow mottles a stained or bruised beak
will constitute a loss of points.
Hocks
(2 pts.): Not to be profusely feathered, short
in length. In all baldheads, hocks preferred to be white
in color, but may be colored but should be evenly
matched. If colored a loss of points should be taken.
Flights and
Tail (10 pts.): Flights tightly folded, broad
and short coverts, closing neatly over the rump. Tail
closely folded and slightly wedged allowing flights to
meet 1/2 inch off the floor when the bird is at
attention. Twelve tail feathers
only. No razor backs flights.
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Body |
15 pts |
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Carriage |
10 pts |
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Legs and Muffs |
4 pts |
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Head |
8 pts |
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Neck |
2 pts |
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Eyes |
5 pts |
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Eye Cere |
2 pts |
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Wattle |
2 pts |
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Beak |
5 pts |
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Hocks |
2 pts |
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Flights and Tail |
10 pts |
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Color |
10 pts |


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Color
(10 pts.): Rich, sound and lustrous in color
throughout of even shade, well extended into the roots
of the quills. Full bright plumage. All birds should
have clean and bright color without smut.
Markings
Bald Heads (10 pts.): Head to be white in color,
with a bib forming a "V" marking to a point
approximately 1/2 inch below where the beak would touch
the neck if the head were bent down. The white should
end on the back of the head at a point where a line
drawn through the bottom edge of the eye would meet the
back of the head. Primary flights to be 10 in number on
each wing. Primaries should be white in color. Secondary
flights to be the same color as the body. Tail and rump
to be white in color.
Mottles
(10 pts.): Evenly matched on all sides. Flights
may be white, colored, or mixed (but matched on both
wings). Tail the same. The feathering upon which should
be composed of a complete intermixture of (black &
white) interspersed with regularity throughout the
entire body. A rosewing consists of 6 to 12 white
feathers upon each shoulder arranged at equal distance
within a circular form, both sides alike; all else solid
colored. A whiteside consists of a solid colored head,
neck, breast, back tail and flights. All else is white.
Secondaries are preferred colored also. In all mottles
the tail should consist of twelve (12) feathers.
Thirteen (13) or more constitutes a disqualification.
Selfs
(10 pts.): All solid colored birds, such as
black, white, dun, red, yellow, khaki, brown and
lavender. Pure and deep color. All selfs should be only
one color. Faults: Colored on underside, T-pattern,
barred shadows, bronzing in chest, tint color on rump or
vent, and lacing on tail and wing tips. White, yellow,
red, clear beaks free from stain.
Checks and Barred:
Blue, red cream, khaki, indigo, brown, opal, dun. Head
color to be rich even shade, neck feather a bit darker
shade showing a rich sheen, wing feather should be
lighter shade with the color carried out through the
secondary and primary feathers and blending darker to
the tips. Checks - Some lacing along with definite wedge
of bar edging. Barred - Two even bars as wide and dark
as possible. All other body feathers should be even
colored. The tail bar shall match the wing bars.
Badges, Saddles, Pied Marked, Ect.:
Saddles - The marking, intensity of color,
purity and uniformity; they are marked like the badge
pigeon. Head, neck and breast (to a line across the
keel) are colored; back and tail also colored. All else
white, pure and spotless. Muffs should be white and
pure, and each kind must have a clear well-defined
colored saddle. (Blues should be a clear light blue,
with black bars. Silver should be of a very pale
delicate color, with dark bars).
Badges - Ten primary flights must be white and
muffs must be white from the hock joints to their tips.
All else colored, intensity of color and richness of
color are important points. Head markings are a
moderately broad white blaze running up the middle of
the face. Secondary flights to be the same color as the
body; tail and rump to be white in color.
Almonds, Grizzles, Ect.
(10 pts.):
Almonds - Base color to strive for is a rich yellow
brown or almond color. The flecks vary in size and color
but should be even in distribution. There must be at
least 3 colors on the bird. Flecking is usually more
predominant on the head, back and flights, but if in
every feather of the bird, so much the better. Each
feather of the primaries and secondaries should have
their color in patches.
Grizzles - A mixture of color (blue and black and
white) presenting a grayish appearance over the body,
head and neck being light and powdery. Flights and tail
rather of a darker color. The tail should consist of 12
feathers. 13 or more constitutes a disqualification
Condition
(15 pts.): All specimens shall be shown in a
natural and healthy condition. Alert, clear and free of
parasites. Feather texture should be medium to hard.
Excessive trimming, plucking, dyeing, oiling or any
other method of faking to deceive the judge or upgrade
the specimen, shall constitute an automatic
disqualification. Points shall be deducted for lice,
lice holes, mites, dirt, grit and feeding stains,
molting, feather rot, feathers not fully grown,
deformities and any other areas the judge deems as part
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