Deathlayer SOP

[FunClucks]

What is SOP?

Standard of perfection.

 

[Sic]

So clearly there is no SOP for Deathlayers. Google didn't turn up much of anything either. If you were interested in a breed that doesn't have a SOP, how do you even begin to work towards creating one?
Would I base it off SOP of similar looking breeds, such as campines or hamburgs? Or...?
Does anyone else here have or breed Deathlayers?

Westfalische Totleger - AKA Deathlayers are a very old German breed so it would be best to start with the German standard. You can find German breed standards at https://www.bdrg.de

It is often easier to find breed standards through breed clubs or associations. Here is a link to one, you can use a website translator for English language as there is good breeding information here aside from the standard.

https://www.sv-der-züchter-des-westfälischen-totlegerhuhnes.de/westf%C3%A4lische-totleger/musterbeschreibung/


Compact summary of the characteristics of the Westphalian Totleger
Overall impression:

Strong, more box-shaped country chicken shape, medium height, full plumage, small rose comb, speckled markings, very lively nature.

Breed characteristics:

Rooster

Body - full, deep, rounded shape

Neck - medium length, with rich feathering

Back - moderately long, slightly sloping, full saddle

Chest - well rounded

Wings - strong, firmly attached

Tail - large, full, carried high, with long, wide, well-curved sickles

Belly - broad and full

Head - medium size, stretched, moderately broad

Face - covered with small feathers

Crest - small rose comb, finely pearled, with thin, straight or slightly inclined spine

Wattles - medium length, finely textured

Earlobes - small, round, bluish white

Beak - strong, bluish horn-coloured

Eyes - dark brown

Thighs - strong, medium length

Legs - fine-boned, grey-blue

Hen

A slightly less inclined cylindrical shape, full and deep chest, good developed belly, slightly loosely carried tail, slightly prominent thighs, small rose crest, small ear and wattle flaps.

Colors and markings:

Silver

Rooster neck feathers, shoulders, back and saddle feathers silver-white. The tail is black, with hints of speckling on the edge of the sickle feathers. The rest of the plumage and the secondary sickles have irregular, coarse, black speckling, which disappears into the downy plumage of the belly, dark gray, underpants dark gray.

Hen neck silver-white, slightly speckled in the lower part. The rest of the plumage is noticeably more finely speckled than in the rooster. The speckling extends in the tail feathers up to the tip, which is black.

Gold

Rooster golden brown, hen slightly lighter in color, otherwise the markings are like silver.

Major faults:

Hamburger shape (too light and slim), too high or too low position, coarse-boned legs, leg color other than gray-blue.

For silver: banding or too coarse flake markings, lack of markings in the tail feathers of the hens.

For gold: white in the wings and tail feathers, otherwise as for silver.

Weights - cock 2 to 2.5 kg, hen 1.5 to 2 kg

Laying performance in the first year - up to 180 white-shelled eggs

Hatching eggs minimum weight - 53 g

Non-breeders

Ring sizes - cock 18, hen 16, ringing 9th week

 

[lisa69]

I breed them from Greenfire stock .

 

[SourRoses]

Major faults:

Hamburger shape (too light and slim),

I was thinking "So not an American Hamburger then?"

Ring sizes - cock 18, hen 16, ringing 9th week

What do they mean by rings?

 

[Sic]

Lol. Jokes aside, compared to the Hamburg breed, not a

I was thinking "So not an American Hamburger then?"




What do they mean by rings?

Leg bands.

 

[SourRoses]

Lol. Jokes aside, compared to the Hamburg breed, not a