General Study Guide Flashcards
What is the back angle for American Game
Male: 30
Female: 20
What are American Game DQs
-males not dubbed at any age
-Cockerel without semblance of spurs
-cocks without spurs
-male sickles not curven in a semi-cardioids manner
-crooked breast bone
What are serious defects in American Games
-no abrupt break at base of tail in males
-low wing carriage
What is given preference in BB red American Game Females?
-straw colored shafting
Head carriage in Ancona should be?
-carried high, well above the tail
What breeds DQ for 1/4 red in white earlobes of cockerels and more than 1/3 in cocks and hens?
-Anconas
-Andalusians
-Campines
What leg color is a DQ in Anconas?
Any other color other than yellow or yellow mottled with black
What are DQs in Araucanas?
-presence of beard and or muffs
-absence of one or both ear tufts
What is the leg color in Ameracanas?
-slate, except black in black
What are the leg colors in Araucanas?
Willow, Yellow in White and Swarthy Horn in Blue
In Australorps, where does the tail intercept on the head?
The Wattles
What is the leg color in Australorps?
Black with white bottoms
What color eyes do Australorps have?
Dark Brown
Describe the wing carriage of the Belgian d’anvers
Low wing carriage, slopping downwards to the hocks
What color legs do d’anvers have?
Slate Blue
What is a DQ in d’anvers?
Yellow in legs, skin or feet
What is the tail carriage in Belgian Bearded d’Uccles?
Males: crown of comb is parallel
Females: muffs are parallel
What are DQs in Belgian Bearded d’Uccles?
Absence of Muffs and or Beards, severed wattles, squirrel tails and absence of vulture hocks
What are serious defects of Belgian Bearded d’Uccles?
Large wattles and earlobes, scantiness of beard or muff, and bare middle toe
What is the tail carriage of booted bantams?
Males: parallel with crown of comb
Females: parallel with wattles
What is a serious defect in Booted bantams?
Bare middle toe
What are DQs for Booted bantams?
Presence of beard or muffs, absence of wattle or earlobe and absence of vulture hocks
What are DQs of Brahmas?
Shanks not feathered down the outer sides, and outer toe not feathered to outer joint
Serious Brahma defects are?
Bare middle toe, head too narrow or small, twisted hackle, weakness in wings carriage, stiltiness in carriage, lack of activity, sluggishness or crooked keel.
Buckeye DQs are?
Positive enamel white in earlobes and white feathers in plumage
What are defects in Buckeyes?
Brassiness, bronzing, mealiness, lacing or frosting
What are unique features of Buckeyes?
Bay feather shafting, under color is red…except for on the back where there should be a distinct slate bar across each feather. See blacktailed red color pattern.
What are DQs in buttercups?
More than 2/3 red on white earlobes
What are DQs in campines?
Earlobes more than 1/4 red in males or 1/3 red in females, long pointed sex feathers in back, saddle or wing bows and shanks other than slaty blue.
What are serious defects in Buttercups?
Abrupt break at tail, low wing carriage, head small and narrow, narrow or shallow breast, beefy comb.
What are the leg color of Buttercups?
Willow green and yellow bottoms of feet
What is the head carriage in Campines?
Well above the parallel to the top of the tail.
What is the eye color in Campines?
Dark brown
What are defects in campines?
Red eyes (1 point), white in face, small narrow head, shallow or narrow breast, low wing carriage, bars or ground color of equal width-penciled ground color
What are DQs in Chantlecler?
Combs not truly cushion shaped and shanks and toes other than yellow
What are chantecler defects?
High and irregularly shaped comb, long and thick neck, narrow breast and back and fluffy or loose feathering
What are DQs in Cochins?
Bare middle toes, feet showing complete absence of yellow, shanks other than yellow or dusky yellow.
What are serious defects in Cochins?
Combs that are oversized, lopped or twisted, high carriage of head, breast too low that feathers touch the ground, low wing carriage, stiffness in tail feathers, high carriage of breast, crooked keel, being a creeper, any semblance of stiltiness.
What are DQs in Cornish
Crooked keels, lopped comb, cocks without spurs, cockerels without any semblance of spurs, any leg or foot defect affecting mobility of bird, inverted or telescoped rear portion of comb.
What are DQs in Crevecoeur
Shanks and toes other than black or leaden blue, more than on appearance of more than one half inch of positive white in any section of plumage
What are Crevecoeur Defects
Split crest, twisted or reverse facing feathers in crest, abrupt break at juncture of back and tail, wings too low, lack of activity, sluggishness
How are cubalaya wings carried
High in front and wing tip carried low
What are Cubalaya DQs
Tail carried above the horizontal in either sex
What are Cubalaya Defects
Beak too long and slender, excessive beetle brow as Malay. Legs too short.
What are DQs in Dominiques
Any foreign color to the breed except black and white, two or more solid black feathers in any one of the following sections: primaries, secondaries or main tail feathers. Shanks other than yellow
What are the characteristics of the head of Dorkings
Six points on the large combs, females have lopped combs. Large wattles and medium earlobes
What are DQs in Dorkings
Absence of fully developed fifth toe, shanks other than white or pinkish white, absence of spurs in cocks and lacking semblance of spurs in cockerels
What is the color of the eye in dorkings
Bright red
In dutch, what is the tail carriage?
Tip of tail will bisect the eye and lobes in both males and females
What is the wing carriage of Dutch?
Large and long, carried well back, points carried low but well above the ground, not quite covering the hocks. Legs are short
What are DQs in Dutch?
Cocks without spurs, cockerels without semblance of spurs, more than 1/4 red on surface of earlobes in cockerels and pullets and more than 1/3 red in cocks and hens. Crooked keel, white in face of males and females.
What are defects in Dutch?
Earlobes too thin or having a blown up appearance, disc shaped or with a hollow center; unduly too long, straight, or slim neck, long narrow back, narrow or shallow breast, abrupt break at juncture of tail, wings carried too tightly or too low or high, feathers too loose, long narrow and or fluffy, loose feathers, stiltiness in carriage.
What is the shank color in Dutch?
Dark, light or slaty blue. Cuckoo are slaty white.
What are the eye colors in Dutch?
Black have brown, Blue have reddish brown and all other varieties are reddish bay
What are DQs in Faverolles?
Absence of muff or beard, absence of five toes and vulture hocks.
What are defects of Faverolles?
Muff or beard interfering with sight.
What are eye colors in Faverolles?
Buff, white and salmon have reddish bay; Black, brown and blue have dark brown eyes.
What are DQs in Hamburgs?
Shanks other than leaden blue, 1/4 red in the lobe of cockerels and pullets, 1/3 red in cocks and hens, absence of distinct bars across wings in spangled varieties, markings wholly crescentic in spangled varieties, absence of penciling on breast of female in penciled varieties. Enamel white in face of cockerel and pullets.
What is the shape of the Houdans back?
Fairly long, broad, not high at shoulders, slightly sloping to base of tail.
What are DQs of Houdans?
Absence of fifth toe, absence of knob or globular tuft
What are defects of Houdans?
Divided or split crest, poorly developed beard and muffs, neck too long, thin or straight, low carriage of wings, hollow or shallow breast, any semblance of stiltiness, appearance of being off balance in front.
What is the color of Houdans eyes?
Red
What is the leg color of Houdans?
Mottled have white with black in young birds and leaden blue in older birds. White Houdans have very light horn with pinkish shading around scales.
What type of comb does jungle fowl have?
Seven point single comb, not following the contour of the head
What is the tail carriage of the jungle fowl?
Male: Tail carried nearly horizontal so that the top of the tail bisects the hackle.
Female: Tail carried nearly horizontal with 14 or more feathers rather closely folded.
What is the shape of back in jungle fowl?
Moderately long back
What is the shape of neck in Jungle Fowl?
Naked flexible throat
What are defects of Jungle Fowl?
Oversized comb, wattles or earlobes; short narrow back, high carriage of tail, low bulging breast.
What is the eye color of Jungle Fowl?
Red
What is the color of shanks on Jungle Fowl?
Bluish slate.
What is the color of Jungle Fowl earlobes?
Red preferred with white acceptable
What are the shape and color of earlobes in La Flèche?
White medium in size oval, fine in texture
What are DQs in La Flèche?
Combs with more that two spikes, absence of spikes and white in face of male or female
What are defects in La Flèche?
Short or crooked spike, small narrow head, short narrow back, unduly long or slim neck, tassel or crest at back of comb, loose feathering and fluffiness of plumage.
What are DQs in Lakenvelders?
More than 1/4 red on surface of earlobe in cockerels and pullets or 1/3 red in cock and hen. Shanks or toes other than slaty blue.
What are defects in Lakenvelders?
Beefy oversized comb, head too small and narrow, neck too long, straight or slim, breast narrow and or shallow, abrupt break at juncture of tail, low wing carriage.
What color eyes do Lakenvelders have?
Dark Red
What is the undercolor in Lakenvelders?
Slate
What is the shape of the Langshan back?
Short, broad and flat at shoulders forming a u shape curve with neck and back of tail.
What is the tail angle of the Langshan?
Male: 75
Female: 70
What are the DQs of Lanshans?
Shanks not feathered down the outer sides, absence of feathers on the outer toe beyond the middle joint, Vulture Hocks, yellow skin, yellow on bottoms of feet, leg and foot feathering other than color of the variety.
What are defects of Lanshans?
Low carriage of head and or wings, twisted hackle feathers, short and or poorly or sparsely feathered tail or narrow or shallow breast.
What is the eye color of Lanshans?
Dark Brown
What are the leg and shank color of Lanshans?
Black have blueish slate, blue and white have bluish slate with pinkish tinge between scales, bottoms of feet pinkish white
What is the head carriage in Leghorns?
high, well above the parallel line with top of tail.
What is the eye color of Leghorns?
Reddish bay
What is the tail carriage in Leghorns?
Male: 40
Female: 35
What are DQs in Leghorns?
1/4 red in lobes in cockerels and pullets and 1/3 for cocks and hens
What are defects in Leghorns?
Narrow mail tail and sickle feathers, abrupt break at juncture of tail and back, low wing carriage, stiltiness in carriage, beefy and or oversized comb, hollowed rose comb, spike too short or crooked, neck too long, strait or thin, breast narrow and or shallow.
What type of comb does a Malay have?
Strawberry
What is the shape of the head and neck in Malay?
Bare skin at throat showing some way down the neck, head rather broad, crown heavy and well projecting over eyes, giving a morose, cruel expression.
What is the shape of the Malay tails?
Drooping but not whipped
What is the wing shape of the Malay?
Large and strong, medium length and somewhat clammed shaped carried very high
What are the DQs of the Malay?
Lopped comb, any other comb other than strawberry, absence of spurs in cocks, no semblance of spurs in cockerels and pullets
What are defects in Malays?
Oversized or spreading comb, high tail carriage, wings carried too high that top edge destroys the contour of the back, bowed or knocked knees, superfine bone, general coarseness, lack of activity, sluggishness, foreign eye color other than pearl
What is the comb in Minorcas?
Six point single combs that tend to follow the contour of the head, also rosecomb. They have the largest combs of all breeds of bantams
What is the tail angle of the Minorca
35 in male and female
What is the head carriage of the Minorca?
Carried so the tip of the tail will be below the wattles
What are DQs of the Minorca?
More than 1/4 red on lobes of cockerels and pullets and 1/3 red on cocks and hens
What are the defects of Minorcas?
Small undersized combs, hollowed rosecomb, spike that is too short or crooked, head too small and narrow, no break at juncture of the back and tail, tail feathers too narrow, low wing carriage and short legs
What are modern game DQs?
Cocks not dubbed, un dubbed cockerels shown after November 1st, cocks with no semblance of spurs
What are Modern Game defects?
High dubbing of males, head too course, too much loose skin at throat, short stubby beaks, short or bulky necks, heavy feather hackles, spreading over the back and shoulders, wings carried too high that the top edge destroys contour of back, wing tips extending over the back of the stern, low wing carriage, flat sides, ballon fronted breasts, keel to deep and or too long, flatness of shanks, thick insteps or toes, open scaling at the approach to toes denotes coarse and heavy instep which are not conductive to activity, softness of flesh and plumage.
What is the tail angle of Naked Necks?
40 in both sexes
What are the DQs for Naked Necks?
indication for feathers being removed from bare areas, crooked keel, absence of spurs on cocks or any semblance of spurs on cockerels
What are the shape of the New Hampshire’s earlobes
Elongated ovals, fairly long
What are the defects of New Hampshire’s?
Back too short, squatty, low wing carriage, wings extending beyond the stern, pinched and high tails, shallow or narrow bodies.
What is the eye color of New Hampshire’s?
Reddish bay
What is the shank color of New Hampshire’s?
Rich yellow tinged with reddish bay
What is the comb shape on Nankin Bantams
Single: moderately large, five points, neatly arched
Rose: medium, broad and square in front, spike slightly below the horizontal
What is the shape of the wings of Nankin Bantams?
Fairly large, tightly folded and concealing hocks.
What are defects in Nankin Bantams?
Wings carried too low, pinched tail, low bulging breast and shallow or narrow body
What are DQs in Old English?
Cocks dubbed in a manner that leaves no semblance of comb, cock without spurs, cockerel with no semblance of spurs, un dubbed cockerel shown after November 1st of the year hatched.