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- Nice shapely bird – head feather blows well – down in size in proportion.
- Similar feather & strong colour. Nice width
- Similar stylish – shows well when he releases
- Larger hen then the first 3, but heavily suffused and markings
- Turned away and wouldn’t show
Judges comments (recorded by Carol Gough):
We ended up going for the three birds at the top who were stylish and showed themselves in proportion and clean in variety.
The winning bird has shaped, blows its feather well, size is not as important as proportioned and he is really a balanced bird.
Similar in second but has nice colour and nice width in the face but probably not quite an impact bird. Third place tended to tense a little bit but when he did show, he showed what he had. We liked the fourth bird for quite a while but the amount of suffusion he has running throughout his body and the markings really worked against him but he is a very useful bird but penalised heavily for variety. I was worried by the fifth bird as he turned his back on us almost the whole time. When he occasionally turned around briefly and we found he was a solid bird but did not have the head qualities of those placed above him. It is a rather a strange habit he has of turning away. The rest of the class faded away quite a bit.