ORIGIN: Holland.
GENERAL APPEARANCE: Of medium size, deep and low carried body with Iow carried breast, pretty well-filled rump with slightly upward carried tail, suggesting the desired boat-shape.
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BREED CHARACTERISTICS
HEAD: Small, beautifully arched with smooth, flowing, skull-line, round shaped from left to right; beak and forehead form an obtuse angle (greater than 90 degree angle).
BEAK: Of medium length, thin and straight, slightly bent at the tip; white in all color varieties.
WATTLES: Very smooth, neatly fitting and powdered white.
EYES: Situated high and deep into the skull; pearl colored for all varieties except Magpie, these having dark eyes.
CERE: Very delicate and narrow, narrowly enclosing the eye, light for all varieties.
NECK: Of medium length, narrow gradually growing broader and fuller toward breast.
BREAST: Broad and full, somewhat prominent, carried low.
BACK: Short and broad, slightly falling off towards tail.
BODY: Short and broad at the bottom narrowing strongly towards the tail, wedge-shaped, subsiding a bit in the back.
ABDOMEN: Well tilled and well rounded.
TAIL: Short, narrow and smooth; twelve feathers nearly folded.
WINGS: Powerful, wide feathers tiffing closely to the body; flights carried on tail and touching together.
LEGS: Very short thighs, longer shanks, knee joints turning inside and backwards; thighs provided with long vulture-shaped hocks; shanks with heavily feathered wide round muffs, covered with gradually shorter growing feathers tapering toward the knee joints; feathers overlapping regularly without gaps or long, misplaced feathers sticking out.
PLUMAGE: Full and smooth, giving adequate shape to body; tightly fitting.
COLOR AND MARKINGS:
Unicolored - White, black, intense red and yellow; black barred blue with black barred tail;
silver blue with dark wing and tail bars; grey-blue with regularly speckled head and neck; yellow
silver with colored wing and tail bars.
Tigered - Unicolored over the whole body; wings show alternating small white and colored
feathers. Occurs in black, red, and yellow.
Whiteshield - Entirely unicolored with the exception of the wing shields which must be pure
white, exactly limited on all sides. Occurs in black, red, and yellow.
Whiteflight - Entirely unicolored except for seven to ten primary flights which should be
pure white. Occurs in black, red, yellow, silver-blue and grey-blue.
Whitetail - Entirely unicolored except for twelve tail feathers which must be pure white.
Upper and lower tail coverts are completely colored. Occurs in all colors and patterns.
Whiteflight-Whitetail - Here is a combination of seven to ten primary flights with a pure
white tail inclusive upper and lower coverts which must be clean-cut from the body.
Magpie - Head is pure white as well as a large part of the front neck and occiput. This
oval-shaped bib pattern must extend from 2 1/2" to 3" under the beak, exactly limited on right and
left. Small round spot on top of skull; colored badge (moustache) of 1/2" long and 3/4" wide grows
slightly downward at each side of beak. Spots and badges are closely and as uniformly as possible
limited. Breast is full colored, reaching almost as far as the thighs; colored tail; abdomen, back,
rump, hocks, and muffs are pure white. Occurs in black, red, yellow, blue, and dun.
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