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South Central District Meet-1st Self Blue large fowl qualifying meet Nov. 17-18
Jean:
I think Tim Bowles is completely off base in his interpretation of a picture by Diane Jacky. The photo is the artists interpretation of the standard and is not necessarily the perfect bird. In addition, my interpretation of her picture is that there is some silvery color on the hackles in the photo of the male of the color to indicate the glossiness that cannot be portrayed in this media.
I have talked to Brian Decker and he said our standard is written correctly as the color for the male is the same shade except for the glossy sheen on the male sex feathers. Walt Leonard guided us through writing the color standard and accepted it as written. If this were a problem with the other birds listed in the Standard it would have been fixed by now as the color has been approved in OEG LF and bantam since 1965.
Metallic gloss is not silvery white. The definition of silvery white in the SOP is: "A lustrous white, generally applied to the lustrous white color in hackle, back, saddle and wing bow plumage of a white or parti-white male."
The definition of gloss is shine or luster. The structure of the sex feathers in all male birds have gloss. Metallic is defined as resembling metal - a grayish blue color. So we are defining a grayish blue color with shine or luster.
Furthermore, I think discussions like this should be brought to the Board before announcing it to the Club before appropriate research has been done.
Susan Mouw:
The Meet Report for this meet is now complete and posted:
http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/meet_reports/11-18-18%20North%20American%20Poultry%20Breeders%20Shawnee%20OK%20Self-Blue%20Qual%20District.pdf
Paul:
Junior large fowl winning birds
Paul:
Junior bantam winning birds
Paul:
Open large fowl winning birds
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