Entered my first fair yesterday! They didn't know what a Showgirl was!

[LilPeeps]

Showgirls are shown as AOV silkies.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

And have applied for recognition. Or at least the paperwork has been taken out.

 

[Shared Acres]

What does AOV mean?

By the way I love your black labs!

 

[farmgirlie1031]

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Any Other Variety

 

[Shared Acres]

Gotcha, thanks!

 

[shay20]

We brought our showgirls to a show for the first time in Springfeild Mass.
And it was awsome, they are a new breed but they are title under showgirl NN Silkie, they are reginized i think it all depends on the place and judges that you get, they all love mine and aone other that was there. The one thing that went wrong with ours was that I put mu pullet in the cockerl cage and the cockerel in the pullet cage so they did not judge ours that was the only reason why, In fact i had someone makeing a book photograph one of mine for her book, its a book on all reconized breeds, i had peapl offer to buy mine too. Even the gentalman in charge of putting the show together said we had perfect showgirls great for show, but the reason they did not judge them was becouse they were in the wrong cages.

This is the pic that was taken for the book.

 

[Shared Acres]

VERY nice looking showgirls, nice blue earlobes!

Make sure they put your info in the book with the pic!

I have a calendar of some of mine (see link in siggie) thinking of doing a book after awhile.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Showgirls are a variety of silkie, not a separate breed, and are not recognised by either the ABA or APA, which is why they are entered as AOV.

They are many generations into development, and there are quite a few breeders working on them. However, there is not a consensus on whether to breed for or against the "bow tie." Until there is a consensus on the breed standard, there is little liklihood of recognition.


Different judges do things differently when confronted with a situation like you mentioned. Some will, as happened to you. ignore the incorrectly marked entry (personally I think this is very WRONG--you paid the entry fee--your bird should be judged). Others will judge the bird according to the cage tag, regardless of what is in the cage--needless to say the birds will not do well--an extreme example is judging a mille fleur d'uccle in a cage taged as housing a large fowl black sumatra. And the third, and I believe the proper way of handling it, is when a jedge re-marks the tag with what it IS and judges it accordingly. At larger shows this could prove too time consuming, which is, I believe, why it is done less frequently.

 

[racuda]

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In the pic above, is the puff of feathers on the lower neck the "bowtie"? If so, I like it.

shay20, that is an amazing bird!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Yes