CARRIAGE
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Stylish, compact and lively.
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TYPE
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Body broad and stout looking. Back short, saddle silky and rising to the tail, stern broad and abundantly covered with fine fluff, saddle hackles soft, abundant and flowing. Breast broad and full; shoulders stout, square and fairly covered with the neck hackle. Wings soft and fluffy at the shoulders, the ends of the flights ragged and `osprey plumaged' (i.e.with some strands of the flight hanging loosely downwards). Tail short and very ragged at the end of the harder feathers of the tail proper. it should not be flowing but of a short round curve.
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HEAD
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Short and neat. Crest soft and full, as upright as the comb will permit, and having half a dozen to a dozen soft, silky feathers streaming gracefully backwards from lower and back part of crest to a length of about 3.75cm (1 1/2 in). The crest proper should not show any hardness of feathers. Beak short and stout at base. Comb almost circular in shape, preferably broader than long, with a number of small prominences over it; preferably having a slight indentation or furrow transversely across the middle. Eyes brilliant and not too prominent. Face smooth. Bearded variety: The beard and muff is comprised of feathers turned horizontally backwards, from both sides of the beak; and from the centre vertically downwards. The whole forming a collar of three ovals in a triangular group, giving a muffling effect. Wattles concave, nearly semi-circular, not long or pendent. Ear-lobes Non-bearded variety: more oval than round. Bearded variety: very small, almost concealed by the beard.
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NECK
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Short or medium length, broad and full at base with the hackle abundant and flowing.
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PLUMAGE
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Very silky and fluffy with a profusion of hair-like feathers.
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LEGS AND FEET
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Free from scaliness. Thighs wide apart and legs short. Thighs covered with abundant fluff. No hard feathers on the hocks but a profusion of soft silky plumage on them is permissable. The feathers on the legs should be moderate in quantity. Toes five, the fourth or rear toe and the fifth diverging from one another. The middle and outer toes feathered, but these feathers should not be too hard.
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BLACK
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Male and Female Plumage Black all over with a green sheen in the males; some colour in hackles is permissable.
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BLUE
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Male and Female Plumage An even shade of blue from head to tail; a self colour, and neither laced nor barred.
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BLUE RED
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Mate and Female Plumage: Colour and markings as for the Partridge Silkie with black everywhere replaced by blue.
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GOLD
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Male and Female Plumage An even shade of golden buff, avoiding pale lemon colour on the one hand and brownish orange on the other. Clear colour throughout to be preferred but some darker feathers permissable in tail of both sexes.
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GREY
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Male and Female Plumage Head and crest: male dark grey, female pearly grey. Neck hackles and saddle hackle of male: light grey streaked with darker grey. Shoulders, fronts and wing bows of male: slaty grey with shafting of darker grey. Breast: light grey. Primaries and secondaries of both sexes: solid even shade of slaty grey. Plumage throughout all remaining sections of both male and female: even shade of pearly grey.
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PARTRIDGE
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Male Plumage: Head and crest dark orange? Hackles orange/yellow, free from washiness, each feather having a clear black stripe down the centre.. Back and shoulders dark orange. Wing bar, solid black. Primaries black, free of any white. Secondaries: outer web dark orange, inner web black, the dark orange alone showing when the wing is closed. Tail and sickles black. Leg and foot feather black. Breast and fluff black. Undercolour: slate-grey, free from white.
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WHITE
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Male and Female Plumage Plumage snow white throughout all sections.
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In both sexes of all varieties: Beak slaty blue. Eyes black. Comb, face and wattles mulberry. Ear-lobes turquoise blue or mulberry, the former preferred. Legs and feet leaden. Nails blue-white. Skin mulberry.
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