Italian National Poultry Championship Dec. 2018

[Gargoyle]

Wow! Thank you so much. I enjoyed every bit of your post

LOTS more to come! It will take me several days to post them.

Satin Frizzle

We call them Polish, the Italians call them Olandese (Holandaise). Olandese are Polish without a beard, Padovana are the Italian name for Polish with a beard. This is a white tufted khaki bantam. (not sure what the proper English name is for the coloring). Scored B92.
(refer to the second post in this thread for the scoring info).

 

[staceyj]

To think that you were on vacation and cared enough to bring us back all these pictures....
What incredibly beautiful birds! I’m looking forward to seeing more!
Thank you!

 

[Gargoyle]

A Polish buff laced bantam

A Sabelpoot, or Dutch Booted bantam, she scored well, MB94.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Well keep them coming you got me on the edge of my seat!!

 

[Gargoyle]

Three Brahmas:

This one is a Gold Partridge (or penciled?) Brahma, in Italian called "Perniciata Maglie Nera".

Blue Gold partridge (or penciled?) Brahma

This is a Perniciata Maglie Blu Brahma (Blue Gold Partridge Brahma)

 

[Gargoyle]

To think that you were on vacation and cared enough to bring us back all these pictures....
What incredibly beautiful birds! I’m looking forward to seeing more!
Thank you!

Actually, I was there for work. Carrara is where the marble quarries are located, I go there to select marble. Afterwards I had meetings in Genoa and Milan for the work we are doing to help restore the sculptures at the incredible monumental cemetery in Genoa. You can check that out at http://afims.org.

A couple of Gold Partridge birds:
A gold laced Orpington

And a gold laced Seabright

 

[Gargoyle]

In Italian, the variety of these Wyandottes is Oro Orlato Blu, what we call Blue Laced Red.
This fellow earned a score of B91

And she did better with an MB93

 

[Gargoyle]

Two English Modern Game Bantams
They both scored the same, B92.

 

[Gargoyle]

This Twentse bantam white gold is embarrassed, because he only scored B91. But she's still beautiful. Many of the chickens were available for purchase; he was going for €50.00, currently equivalent to $57.00 US. Most of those for sale were in the €30.00 to €60.00 range, but some reached the €150.00 to €200.00 range. There were a couple
Cholmogory (Kholmogory) geese going for €250.00 ($285.00 U.S.). I'm not sure if I have photos of those, I haven't started sorting my photos of geese, guinea fowl, ducks turkeys, etc. Those birds didn't have a large presence at the show.

He does look a bit sad.

 

[Gargoyle]

This Serama scored B91

But this one was disqualified, for primary wings underneath the secondary wings.