SCALE OF POINTS Body 15 pts Carriage 10 pts Legs & Muffs 4 pts Head 8 pts Neck 2 pts Eyes 5 pts Eye Cere 2 pts Wattle 2 pts Beak 5 pts Hocks 2 pts Flights & Tail 10 pts Color 10 pts

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 & 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 & 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.

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

BALDHEADS (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 & 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, ETC.:
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, ETC. (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 of condition.