Ended Official BYC 2021 Summer Fair—Standard-Bred Chicken Show

[MysteryChicken]

I'd say yes to both. You can't enter a bird with completely random colouring, but if it's a discrete colour pattern that we can judge based on qualifications, then yes.

Good to know this, I have Project Wheaten Crele Orpingtons I'm working on, & currently working on breeding out yellow skin, & doing some comb, body type, tail shape/angle corrections. I'm breed towards SOP. Same with my silkies. I have SQ silkie breeding stock I've been using.
The tricky part is I'm using hatchery stock, & breeding the bad traits out. I'm getting there though.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Entry #1.

Breed: Orpington

Sex: Rooster

Age: 4yrs old.

Color: Project Color: Wheaten Crele. Red Variation.

A couple hens have a comb pecking issue with the boys.

 

[MysteryChicken]

#2.
Breed: Orpington

Sex: Hen

Age: 3yrs

Color: Project Color: Wheaten Crele, Red Variation.

This a picture of my hen before rooster damage. I removed a light glare from the image. It was very bright out the day I took the picture.
Frontal view. Excuse the hen saddle.

 

[Wyndsong]

This is my Silver Lace Sebright Pullet
She is in the RCCL class.
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OMG She's Beautiful!! I'd have thought this was a fantasy drawn bird if I didn't know better!

 

[FarmerGirl1010]

Could I enter a Golden cuckoo Maran?

 

[ColtHandorf]

Before you enter, please ensure that your bird has been accepted by the APA or ABA and is of a discrete variety—not a mixed colour.

If project birds are accepted, are varieties that are not recognized by the APA but could be shown in the AOV class accepted? The APA only recognizes Orpingtons in Buff, Black, White, and Blue in both large fowl and bantam varieties. My birds for instance are bred to the UK SOP but could still be shown in the AOV class at an APA show. They cannot compete outside of that bracket though.

 

[BantyChooks]

If project birds are accepted, are varieties that are not recognized by the APA but could be shown in the AOV class accepted? The APA only recognizes Orpingtons in Buff, Black, White, and Blue in both large fowl and bantam varieties. My birds for instance are bred to the UK SOP but could still be shown in the AOV class at an APA show. They cannot compete outside of that bracket though.

Yes, that is correct.

 

[BantyChooks]

To reiterate from the original post, they must be of a discrete variety and of an accepted breed. Those are separate qualifications. More explicitly, we don't want mixed colours such as you'd find in Easter Eggers or other mutts, but if the variety is commonly recognized as real it does not have to be APA accepted for that breed. We're trying to run something a bit looser than a real APA/ABA show whilst still adhering to the sentiments reflected in such events.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Large Fowl English White Orpington - pullet - 9 months - Elizabeth (right most in the first image and leftmost in the second.)

Large Fowl Blue Orpington - pullet - 11 months - Agnes

Large Fowl Black Orpington - pullet - 11 months - Dahlia

Large Fowl Silver-laced Orpington - cock - 2 years - Hollywood (pardon the girls molting)

Large Fowl Silver-laced Orpington - hen - 2 years - Mel

 

[Driley62]

This is Big Red, our Rhode Island Red (1 year old) rooster that we got from tractor supply. He isn't show quality but I figured hell why not. See what kind of attention he would bring. He's a brown-red color?(sorry new to the chicken world. Every other RIR I've seen he's the same exact color). Couldn't get a wing out photo as he wasn't cooperating.