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* For a pdf of these Standards click
HERE. *
Male Characteristics
Carriage: Sedate, but fairly active.
Type:
- Body: Broad,
square and deep.
- Back: Short,
either flat or slightly hollow between the shoulders; the saddle
rising halfway between the hackle and the tail until it reaches the
tail coverts.
- Breast: Full
with horizontal keel.
- Wings: Medium
sized, with lower line horizontal, free from twisted or slipped
feathers, well tucked under the saddle feathers, which should be of
ample length.
- Tail: Of
medium length, rising from the lione of the saddle and carried between
65-75 deg, the quill feathers well spread, the coverts broad and
abundant, well curved and almost covering the quill feathers.
Head:
Asiatic,
small, rather short, of medium breadth, and a dewlap of the upper
throat, between the wattles.
- Brow: Clearly
prominent over the eyes.
- Beak: Short
and strong.
- Eyes: Large
and deeply set.
- Comb: Pea
comb (triple) firmly fastened, without a leader, as little developed
as possible.
- Face: Smooth,
free from feathers or hair.
- Earlobes:
long and fine, free from feathers, longer than wattles.
- Wattles:
Small, fine and rounded, free from feathers.
Neck:
Long, covered with hackle feathers that reach down to the shoulders, a
depression being apparent at the back between the head feathers and the
upper hackle.
Plumage: Profuse, but close fitting.
Legs/Feet:
- Legs:
Moderately long, powerful, well apart and feathered.
- Thighs:
Large, covered in front by the lower breast feathers.
- Fluff: soft,
abundant, covering the hind parts and standing out behind the thighs.
- Hocks: Amply
covered with soft rounded feathers, or with long soft feathers
provided they are accompanied with proportionately heavy shank and
foot feathering.
- Shank Feather:
Profuse, standing well out from legs and toes, extending under the
hock feathers and to the extremity of the middle and outer toes, leg
and foot feathering to be profuse, the presence of 'vulture hocks' to
be classed as a defect (see defects)
- Toes: four ,
straight and spreading.
Female Characteristics
With the
exception of the neck and legs, which are short, the general
characteristics are similar to those of the male, allowing for the
natural sexual differences.
Scale of Points:
Type
(Shape and symmetry) ..............................................30
Head and
Eye
........................................................................15
Legs and
feet
........................................................................15
Colour
.....................................................................................25
Size and
Condition
...............................................................15
TOTAL:
...............................................................................100
Weights:
STANDARDS:
Male:
...............................................4.55kg
(10lbs) upwards
Female:
..............................................3.20kg
(7lbs) upwards
BANTAMS:
Male:
..................................................1190-1415g
(42-50oz)
Female:
..............................................1020-1255g
(36-44oz)
*Disqualifications and defects*
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Disqualifications:
-
Speciment,
seriously lacking in breed characteristics.
-
Definite
indications of contagious disease, indications of infestation of lice,
mites or scaly leg mites.
-
Clear
evidence of faking, ie, the self evident attempt to remove or conceal a
disqualification or or defect, thus creating merit which does not
naturally exist.
-
Any
malformatuion or deformity of the beak.
-
Blindness,
defective eyesight or defective pupils.
-
comb,
other than a pea comb (triple)
-
Presence
of crest or beard and muffs.
-
Wry neck,
wry tail or squirrel tail.
-
Crooked,
roached or deformed in skeletal structure.
-
Abnormal
protrusion of breastbone. Breastbone curved down behind leading or
drooping abdomen.
-
Split
wing.
-
Badly
twisted or curled primary or secondary feathers.
-
Bow legged
or knock kneed or obviously in or out at hocks.
-
Deformed
or twisted feet. Badly splayed feet. webbed feet.
-
Badly
crooked or turned toes. Duck toed.
-
Twisted or
warped shanks.
-
Coarse,
malformed or unnaturally enlarged bone in shanks, feet or toes.
-
Other than
four toes.
-
Shanks and
outer toes, No feathers down outer sides.
-
Other than
yellow or orange-yellow legs or feet.
-
Spurs on
outside of leg.
-
Great want
of condition.
Defects:
-
Any bird
that is excessively over or under weight for its age and sex.
-
Odd eye
colour.
-
Pea comb
which is lopped below the horizontal plane of the skull or inverted at
the rear.
-
Presence
of positive enamel white in the face, earlobes or wattles.
-
Slipped or
drooping wing.
-
Split
tail.
-
Badly
twisted hackle or wing feather.
-
Lack of
spurs on adult males.
-
Lack of
feathers on middle toes.
-
Missing
toenails.
-
Lack of
dewlap.
-
Lack of
prominent eyebrows.
-
Absence of
indentation at back of head.
-
Stiff
quilled hock feathers. ie: vulture hocks.
-
Hair on
face.
Contact
the Secretary:
brahma.aust@gmail.com
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