Feather Legged Bantams -
Weights: Cock 36 oz. Cockerel 32 oz.
Hen 32 oz. Pullet 28 oz.
Shape - Male and Female
§ Comb: Male - Walnut - set firmly and evenly on head, almost circular
in shape, preferably broader than longer, with a number of small prominences
over it, a slight indentation or furrow, transversely across the middle,
rising at a point just forward of the nostrils and extending backwards
to a point parallel with the front of the eyes.
Female - Walnut, very small, well formed. Rest of the description
same as the male.
§ Beak: Short and stout, curving to a point.
§ Face: Surface smooth, skin fine and soft in texture.
§ Eyes: Large, round and prominent.
§ Wattles: Male - Non-Bearded: medium size, concave, nearly round,
fine in texture, free from wrinkles or folds. Bearded - very small,
concealed by beard., natural absence preferred. Female - Non-Bearded:
small, concave, forming a half circle, fine texture, free from wrinkles
or folds. Bearded: small to nonexistent, concealed by beard.
§ Ear-Lobes: Male - Non-Bearded: small, oval, fine in texture, free
from wrinkles or folds. Bearded: very small, almost concealed by muffs.
Female: very small, rest of description the same as the male.
§ Crest: Male - medium size, soft and full. as upright as comb will
permit, having a few silky feathers streaming gracefully backwards
from lower and back part of crest. Female: medium size, soft and full,
globular, upright, well balanced.
§ Head: Moderately small, short, carried so that a line drawn parallel
with tip of the tail will bisect the comb.
§ Beard & Muffs: Bearded varieties - thick, full, extending back
of eyes and projecting from sides of face and composed of feathers
turned horizontally backwards, from both sides of the beak, from the
center, vertically downwards, the whole forming a collar of three
ovals in a triangular group, giving a muffed effect.
§ Neck: Short, gracefully arched, with a very full hackle flowing
well over the shoulders.
§ Back: Male - short, broad from shoulders to saddle, quite rounded
its entire length rising gradually from middle of the back towards
tail. Female - short, broad from shoulders to cushion, quite rounded
its entire length, rising gradually from middle of back towards
tail.
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Disqualifications:
* More or less than 5 toes
* Absence of beard or muffs.
* Shanks not feathered down outer sides
See APA Standard for Other DQs and cuts
| § Saddle: Male - Rising from back at base
of cape, very broad and round, plumage profuse and long, lower saddle
feathers flowing over tips of wings and mingling with fluff.
§ Cushion: Rising from back at base of cape, very broad and round,
plumage abundant.
§ Tail: Male - short, very shredded at ends, well spread at base,
filled underneath with an abundance of soft feathers which are overlapped
by coverts and lesser sickles, the whole forming a duplex curve with
back and saddle. Sickles, lesser sickles, and coverts - abundant,
soft, well curved, without hard quills, concealing main tail feathers.
Female - short, very shredded at ends, well spread at base, filled
underneath with an abundance of soft feathers which are overlapped
by cushion and coverts, the whole forming a duplex curve with back
and cushion.
§ Wings: Medium size, closely folded, carried well back and nearly
horizontal, well above the lower thighs ending short of stern. Shoulders
and fronts: concealed by hackles and breast feathers. Bows and coverts:
Very well rounded. Primaries: medium length, well shredded, tapering
convexly to stern, tips concealed by saddle feathers.
§ Breast: Carried forward, very full, well rounded and of great depth
and width.
§ Body And Fluff: Body of moderate length, broad, deep and well rounded
from breast bone to stern and let down well between the legs.
§ Legs and Toes: Male - Legs short and stout, set well apart, straight
when viewed from the front. Lower thighs: short, stout at top, tapering
to hocks, abundantly feathered. Hocks: covered with soft and silky
feathers curving inwards about the hocks.
Shanks: rather short, stout in boner, well feathered on the outer
sides with silky plumage, the upper part growing out from thigh plumage
and continuing into foot feathering. Spurs: medium size and length,
set just above the 5th toe. Toes: five, the three front straight,
well and evenly spread, the hind toe double, the normal toe in natural
position and the extra toe placed above, starting from close to the
other toe, but well formed, longer than the other toes and curving
upwards and backwards; the outer and middle toe well feathered. Female
- same as male except no spur. (Bare middle toe a serious defect in
either sex)
Color: Bearded White Silkie
§ Male & Female: COMB, FACE, WATTLES: deep mulberry, approaching
black.
§ BEAK: Leaden blue
§ EYES: black
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