Sumatra Thread!

[championsumatra]

Quote: It dose not state how the feathers should be in the standard. If I am missing the page please tell me what page it is.That is why I am going online to find that out. I am perry sure this web is correct it is for show poultry.

 

[zach N houdan]

Thank you for the info, I didn't know that. Now I'm second thinking adding him in I'd like to work on the blacks primarily so maybe I shouldn't introduce the blue.... I have 2 other breeds I'm working with so I don't have space to divide up another color. Darn. The guy also had some amazing black Roos that I missed the opportunity to get then

U can try and breed him and see what happens or just show him

 

[BGMatt]

It dose not state how the feathers should be in the standard. If I am missing the page please tell me what page it is.That is why I am going online to find that out. I am perry sure this web is correct it is for show poultry. Why don't you look at it for yourself and then you may judge me.

It certainly does. At the end of the Sumatra description it says "Note-- See interpretation of Standard -- "Quality of Feather", page 29" You want section (e)

 

[championsumatra]

Quote: Oh man I would have traded you for your blue rooster for one of my black roosters. This rooster I am talking about is a really nice male. His brother and mother have won class champion. He would have been great to put with your black hens. But some one has already claimed him. when I have sumatra's for sale they sell like hot cakes.

 

[championsumatra]

Quote: Thanks I will look

 

[BGMatt]

Thanks I will look

That was for the 2010 edition, may be a slightly different page number in other years.

 

[championsumatra]

No it is the same. I found it. "games and orientals feathers short rather narrow hard and firm". I am confuses is says short in that part but in the sumatra part says that sumatras saddle fethers should be long and flowing. BACK: "Long, broad at shoulders, narrowing slightly and sloping gently to tail, with very long full flowing saddle feathers." Games have short saddle feathers, sumatras don't. I wonder why it says short and what they mean by short.

 

[BGMatt]

No it is the same. I found it. "games and orientals feathers short rather narrow hard and firm". I am confuses is says short in that part but in the sumatra part says that sumatras saddle fethers should be long and flowing. Games have short saddles feathers, sumatras don't. I wonder why it says short and what they mean by short.

Good question. Perhaps NYREDS or another judge could comment on that. I would assume that since that is the only time feathers are mentioned in the actual description of the Sumatra that those feathers are the exception to the short hard and firm description that applies to the rest of the bird, but I'm just a student of the Standard, not a judge yet. Remember also that the descriptors are relative to the bird.

 

[championsumatra]

Quote: I just called one of my friends who is an APA ABA licenced poultry judge and he was thinking that it ment the body feathers not the saddle and hankle. In the ABA the 2006 one it says that if the sumatra dose not have good langth to the saddle or hankle feathers it is a DQ. Now In the standard of perfection it says good langth to saddle and hankle feathers. large fowl and bantams of the same breed should have the same breed characteristics.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

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