Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

[redchicken9]

Thank-you! Thank-you! Thank-you, all for the male color reviews! Could have one more, however I will move to female color by end of day tomorrow!

 

[fowlman01]

If you go with enamel white for the earlobes, the red that you sometimes find is addressed in other parts of the APA SOP. It is considered a minor cut.

Finally received my British Standard. They sure don't describe very much...the Australian Standard doesn't either.

Walt

 

[redchicken9]

Walt, is there something you could tell us about white versus enamel-white? Is it in the brightness of color or the sheen on the surface?

 

[redchicken9]

If you go with enamel white for the earlobes, the red that you sometimes find is addressed in other parts of the APA SOP. It is considered a minor cut.

Finally received my British Standard. They sure don't describe very much...the Australian Standard doesn't either.

Walt

Yes, I like the American Standard of Perfection. It allows you to readily compare attributes and has a fairly extensive glossary and set of figures, not to mention discussion on the interpretation of the standard. But, I'd say the British's color feather plates and pen and ink drawings are rather good. You could frame them and hang them on your wall. That is if chicken decor or scientific and nature drawings are your thing!

 

[fowlman01]

Walt, is there something you could tell us about white versus enamel-white? Is it in the brightness of color or the sheen on the surface?

When you see enamel white used it is to make you think of ...refrigerator white. The finish (glossy or flat) is not an issue.

Walt.

 

[redchicken9]

I don't have a good reference on white refrigerators (olive or tan growing up, stainless now), but trying to think of one, then is this less white or less bright, than white? Could you give the white versus enamel white one more go? Ok, the inside of my refrigerator is white. My sink is white, both are different than the white of a clean sheet of paper. Would this be the difference? If so, then enamel white for CLs. The other is too intense and it doesn't seem many birds have ear-lobes defined as white.

 

[fowlman01]

Yes, I like the American Standard of Perfection. It allows you to readily compare attributes and has a fairly extensive glossary and set of figures, not to mention discussion on the interpretation of the standard. But, I'd say the British's color feather plates and pen and ink drawings are rather good. You could frame them and hang them on your wall. That is if chicken decor or scientific and nature drawings are your thing!

The APA did have color plates of the feathers, but for some reason discontinued them in the 80's. The true color of feathers can't be reproduced with the printing process, but it is close enough to get the idea. The Brits are really into the color of chickens and assign more weight to color than we do. The type on their breeds is many times quite different than the type of the same breed here. That is not the so much the case of breeds originated in Great Britain, but the other classes...Mediterranean, Continental etc don't look like the birds in the US. As an example: their Marans have clean legs and the French and US have feathered legs.

Walt

 

[redchicken9]

Off topic. It could be my thing (but hopefully not a house full). The roo was a gift, I had admired something similar with a branch of several chickadees or cedar wax wings. My husband (behind my back) teasingly bought the rooster instead.

 

[normanack]

Beautiful!

 

[stoneunhenged]

Great painting!