| Shape of Male:
COMB: Single - medium size, straight and upright, set
firmly and evenly on head. moderately and evenly serrated, having five
regular and distinct points, neatly arched, front not to extend beyond
point half way between nostrils and point of beak, but extending well
over back of head, with tendency to follow shape of neck.
BEAK: Short, stout at base, curving neatly to point.
FACE: Fine in quality, free from wrinkles folds or
bristles.
EYES: Prominent, large in comparison to size of bird.
WATTLES: Large, pendant, rather long, fine in texture,
free from wrinkles or folds.
EAR LOBES: Medium size, elongated oval, about two thirds
length of wattles, fine in texture, free from wrinkles or folds.
HEAD: Short, broad, deep, well feathered over eyes,
juncture with neck well defined, carried so that line drawn parallel
with top of tail will bisect eyes, beak slightly back of line drawn
perpendicular with breast.
NECK: Short, well proportioned, gracefully arched from
back to rear of head.
HACKLE: Extremely long and abundant, flowing gracefully
and plentifully over back, shoulders and fronts, forming closely
joined cape in front of neck.
BACK: Short, broad from shoulders to saddle, quite
rounded in entire length.
SADDLE: Rising from back at base of hackle or cape, very
broad and round, convexed from side to side, plumage extremely long
and profuse, lower saddle feathers flowing over tips of wings and
mingling with fluff and underplumage of tail.
TAIL: Short, well spread at base, filled underneath with
an abundance of soft feathers which are overlapped by coverts and
lesser sickles, the whole forming one unbroken duplex curve with back
and saddle.
Main Tail - Feathers very broad, soft
and without hard quills.
Sickles and lesser sickles - broad, soft,
rounded, without hard quills.
Coverts - abundant, concealing main tail
feathers.
WINGS: Small, closely folded, carried very high, above
thighs.
Shoulders and fronts - concealed by hackle and
breast feathers.
Bows - smooth, exceedingly well rounded.
Coverts - Broad, prominent.
Primaries - Moderate length, concealed by
secondaries.
Secondaries - Broad, closely folded,
tapering convexly to stern, tips and part of wing bay concealed by
saddle feathers.
BREAST: Carried well forward, extremely full, well
rounded, of great breadth and depth, heavily feathered.
BODY AND STERN:
Body - medium length, broad, deep, well
rounded from point of breast to abdomen; abdomen carried well down
between the legs, broad and well rounded from breast bone to tail,
depending more for fullness on length of feathers than muscular
development.
Stern - very full; fluff, soft and abundant.
LEGS AND TOES:
Legs - short, but not so short as to permit
breast feathers to touch the ground where there should be an inch of
clearance, stout, parallel to each other without bowing or knock
knees, hidden by plentiful fluff, standing out in globular form.
Lower Thighs - moderate length, stout at top
and tapering to hocks; plumage, long, soft, outstanding, extending
well down the shanks, and covering knee or hock joints.
Hocks - covered with soft flexible feathers,
curving inward about the hocks, free from vulture-like feathering.
Shanks - short, stout in bone, nicely
scaled; plumage, long beginning just below the hocks and covering
front and outsides of shanks, from which it should be outstanding, the
underpart growing out from under thigh plumage and continuing into
foot feathering. There should be no marked break in the outlines
between the plumage of these section; they should merge naturally into
each other and blend together.
Spurs - small short, set high.
Toes - four, straight, well and evenly
spread, middle and outer toes completely feathered to ends.
APPEARANCE: Bold, rather forward and low; the head very
slightly higher than the tail.
DISQUALIFICATIONS:
Vulture hocks - Bare middle and/or outer toe -
Bottoms of feet showing complete absence of yellow in all varieties -
Shanks and toes of a color other than hereinafter described under the
particular variety.
DEFECTS:
Comb that is oversized, twisted or lopped - High
carriage of head - Breast so low that feathers touch the ground - Low
wing carriage - Stiffness in tail feathers - High carriage of keel -
Crooked breast or keel bone - Overall appearance of being a creeper -
Concave surface in any section - Lack of down fiber in underfluff -
Any semblance of stiltiness.
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