NECK FRILL (17 pts.): A smooth and even collar of
reversed feathers fitting loosely in relation to the neck, b
reaking behind the head in a vertical line leaving no less than a
quarter inch gap on the back of the head. Should be as high as
the lower part of the eye cere.
BREAST FRILL (17 pts.): A profuse display of reversed
feathers completely covering the breast. There should be a
horizontal part in the center of the breast, directing feathers
up to the neck frill and down towards the pantaloons. Breast
frill should cover forepart of wing down to pantaloons, including
the wing butts. Should be evenly proportioned on both sides.
PANTALOONS (17 pts.): Two large distinct puffs of fine feathers
protruding from the lower breast in front of the legs.
CARRIAGE (10 pts.): Bold, alert, and upright, the
eye is a perpendicular line above the toe of the foot; the
breast thrown out prominently; balance in length, height, and
width, with all these qualities giving the bird grace in
composition, movement, and expression. Cocks should measure
about ten inches from beak to tip of tail, eight inches from
floor to crown of head. Cocks should weigh ten ounces. Hens
should weight eight ounces.
FLIGHTS AND TAIL (8 pts.): Wing feathers should be
smooth and the flights should be tight, resting on the tail,
with tips nearly meeting. Secondary feathers are to be smooth
over the back. The tail should be fairly narrow and carried
just clear of the floor. More or less than twelve feathers, even
thought they have the two outside feathers, shall be penalized
in points.
LEGS AND FEET (5 pts.): Legs short, but long enough
to give grace to the carriage. Be free of feathers below the
hock. Feet should be rather small and neat. Toes well spread
apart. The color bright red.
COLOR (10 pts.): All colors should be sound, clear,
and even, including rump, thigh, and belly.
DISQUALIFICATIONS: A Chinese Owl possessing African
Owl type head, which is in reference to the extremely short
beak setting. Forked or split tail. Tail must contain the two
outside feathers, in the opinion of the judge, or be
disqualified. Grouse legs of excessive feathers below leg joint.
Excessive trimming or plucking. Birds out of condition at the
discretion of the judge. Red eye cere birds. Split or cracked
eyes or one of each color.
COLOR DESCRIPTIONS
BROWN BAR: Wing shields, breast, and back a clear
medium brownish gray. Head, neck, rump, tail, and flights a
darker shade of brownish gray with a metallic green and pink
luster evident on the neck. Wings to have two distinct dark
brownish gray bars with the shield area free of any checkering.
The tail terminating in a dark brownish gray bar with a narrow
final tip of lighter brownish gray. Beak and toenails horn color.
BROWN CHECK AND BROWN T PATTERN CHECK: Same as the
brown bar, except the wing shields. See "check pattern notes".
Beak and toenails horn color.
BROWN SELF (Spread Brown): an even shade of dark
chocolate brown throughout. Beak and toenails horn color.
KHAKI BAR (Dilute Brown Bar): Wing shields, breast,
and back a creamy light brownish gray. Head, neck, rump, tail,
and flights a slightly darker shade of brownish gray with a
delicate green and pink luster evident in the neck. Wings to
have two distinct light brownish gray bars with the shield
area free of any checkering. The tail terminating in a light
brownish gray bar with a narrow final tip of lighter brownish
gray. Beak and toenails light horn color.
KHAKI CHECK AND KHAKI T PATTERN CHECK: Same as the
khaki bar, except the wing shields. See "check pattern notes".
Beak and toenails light horn color.
KHAKI SELF (Spread Khaki): An even shade of light
brownish gray throughout. Beak and toenails light horn color.
BLUE BAR: Wing shields, breast, and back an even
shade of light blue gray. Head, neck, rump, tail, and flights a
darker shade of blue gray with the neck feathers showing a rich
sheen of primarily green and secondarily purple. Wings to have
two distinct black bars with the shield area free of any
checkering. The tail terminating in a black bar with a final
tip of medium blue gray. Beak and toenails black.
SILVER BAR (Dilute Blue Bar): Wing shields, breast,
and back a rich, even shade of light silvery gray. Head, neck,
rump, tail, and flights a darker shade of silvery gray with the
neck feathers showing a rich sheen of green metallic luster.
Wings to have two distinct dark dun bars with the shield area
free of any checkering. The tail terminating in a dun bar with
a narrow final tip of silver gray. Beak and toenails a dark
horn color.
DUN SELF (Spread blue dilute): A smooth even shade
of steel gray throughout, with the neck feathers showing a rich
sheen of green metallic luster. The shields free of any
checkering or barring. Beak and toenails a dark horn color.
MEALY BAR (Ash Red Bar): Wing shields, breast, body,
and tail a light lavender gray. Head and neck a reddish brown
with a light ashy frosting and a rich sheen of copper. Wings to
have two reddish brown bars with the shield area free from any
checkering. The tail bar is either very faint or missing due to
the "washing" effect of the ash red. Beak and toenails a dark
reddish horn color.
RED CHECK AND RED T PATTERN (Ash Red
Check): Same as mealy bar, except for the wing shields. See
“check pattern notes". the checkering is generally less
distinct than in blue and brown checks.
SPREAD ASH RED (Lavender and Strawberry): An even
shade of lavender gray throughout. Beak and toenails a dark
reddish horn color.
CREAM BAR (Dilute Ash Red Bar): Vying shields,,
breast, body, and tail a light creamy yellow gray. Head, neck,
rump, tail, and flights a slightly darker shade of yellow gray
with a light ashy frosting. Wings to have two yellow gray bars
with the shield area free from any checkering. The tail bar is
either very faint or missing due to the "washing" effect of
the ash red. Beak and toenails a light horn color.
YELLOW CHECK (Dilute Ash Red Check) and YELLOW T PATTERN (Dilute Ash Red T
Pattern): Same as cream bar, except the wing shields. See
"check pattern notes". Beak and toenails a light horn color.
CREAM (Dilute Spread Ash Red Bar): An even shade of
light lavender gray throughout. Beak and toenails a light horn
color.
GRIZLE BAR: Body, head, wing shields, and rump an
even peppery combination of color and white (each feather
should display both color and white, for example, blue grizzled
with white). The neck a darker shade of color finely grizzled,
producing a frost like effect. Wings to have two distinct darker
colored bars. Blue, silver, brown, and khaki bar grizzles
to have flights and tails that are darker and less grizzled.
Mealy and cream bars to have flights and tails that are darker
and less grizzled and often all white or lavender gray. Beak
and toenails colored appropriately according to the color of the
bird.
TOR GRIZECH: Combine the color classes grizzle check
and grizzle t pattern with the tortoiseshell class as listed in
the color descriptions in the Chinese Owl Standard.
ANY OTHER GRIZLE (AO Grizzle): Anything not fitting
above two classifications. (Colored grizzle checks, include all
spread factor birds that do not fit into the above first 2
classifications. This would include birds also called Stork
marks).
(NOTE: The above two paragraphs updated August 5,
1991).
INDIGO (Blue bar with heterozygous indigo): Vying
shields, breast, body, and tail an even shade of light blue
gray. Head, neck, rump, tail, and flights a darker shade with
the neck feathers showing a rich sheen of green. Wings to have
two distinct rust red (bronze) bars with the shield area free
of any checkering. The tail bar is either faint or light rust
red. Beak and toenails black.
INDIGO CHECK (Blue check and blue t pattern/heterozygous indigo): Same as
indigo bar except the wing shields show a distinct and even
checkering of blue gray, black, and rust red. See "check pattern
notes".
ANDALUSIAN (Spread blue with heterozygous indigo):
An even shade of dark blue gray throughout with a delicate
black lacing (edging) occurring on the body and shields. The
breast and neck lightly laced shading gradually to a solid dark
blue gray head. The flights and tail blue gray with black shaft.
Beak and toenails black.
RECESSIVE RED: A deep even shade of chestnut red
throughout with the neck showing a rich sheen of metallic
copper. Plumage free from any blue tints. Beak and toenails a
light horn color.
RECESSIVE YELLOW (Dilute recessive red): A deep even
shade of golden yellow throughout with the neck showing a rich
pink sheen. Beak and toenails a light horn color.
WHITE SELF: A clear white throughout. Beak and
toenails very light horn.
PIED OR SPLASH: Colored bird with between \'/s (33%)
to Ys (67%) of its plumage an evenly dispersed white. Beak and
toenails colored according to the color of the bird.
BODY MARKS: A colored bird with a white tail. Beak
and toenails appropriate to bird\'s color.
ALMOND: A rich shade of golden yellow almond with
black splashes dispersed throughout. Flights and tail an even
variegated combination of almond yellow, black, and white. Beak
and toenails horn color.
SADDLE: A white bird with its wing shield areas
colored. The ten outside wing feathers (primaries) to be white.
Beak and toenails colored appropriately to the color of the
shield area.
QUALMOND: Approved 1989. Qualmond bar, qualmond
check, and qualmond t pattern shall compete against each other
in the proper sex classes until some future time as the
membership feels there are enough numbers to divide them into
bar and check classes.
A.O.C. (Any Other Color): This class to include color
and/or patterns not provided for in the official color standard.
AOC could, at present, include such colors/patterns as laced,
reduced, opals, toy stencil, bronzes, baldhead, tearless,
magpie, any indigos except blue heterozygous, tailmarks, etc.
When five or more good quality (in the opinion of the judge)
AOCs of a single color/pattern are shown, they shall become a
judging class with no separation of sexes or ages.
CHECK PATTERN NOTES: For show purposes, all check
patterns of a particular color are combined into one check
class for that color. Since there are at least two or three
genetically distinct check patterns (actually, probably many
more), and because they are all combined into one class, care
must be taken to avoid the tendency of comparing one pattern to
another and saying that one is better than the other because its
checks are more open or more closed. Openness or closeness of
the checks shouldn\'t be discriminated against in the show room,
because one check pattern is not preferred over the other.
However, it is important that the checking be uniform over the
entire shield and that the checking on one wing is the same as
the checking on the other.
T pattern or black check is the darker, closed check
pattern and can vary from the standard t pattern which shows a
light colored "T" in the shield feathers to a bird with a near
solid colored shield. The "T"s must be uniform over the shield
and not just clumps here and there. If it is a solid shielded
t pattern, the shield must solid overall (the rest of the bird
will resemble a check).
Medium and light checks have more open checking and this
checking must be uniform over the entire shield area.
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