Judges Comments:
Judged by Alan Rowe & Neale Love.
Summation by Neale Love.
Overall a very strong lovely class of birdsGerd Bleicher & Kevin O’Callaghan
Gerd Bleicher stated he was very pleased Australia separated the Normal Spangles from the Spangle Any Other Varieties as he believed it gave both varieties a fairer chance as well as giving a fairer chance to the judges.
First owned by Jeff Leong Rowe Brothers (VictoriaVic) is a Sky hen – a power hen with a lovely top end, strong through the shoulder and style and showed all the timeSpangle Cinnamon Greygreen cock with good size, length, shoulder width and wide face. Good variety markings but slightly more back skull is wanted.
Second owned by John Boss (New South Wales) is a Sky cock, with nice width and feather direction, strong shoulder but didn’t perform to his full potential.
Third owned by Kakoschke & Rice (South Australia) is another Sky cock, similar to the second bird but not a strong shower but has good shoulder and condition.
Fourth owned by S & T Grech (Victoria) is a Grey cock, lovely directional feather and good shoulder but won’t perch. Cedric D’Costa (Sth Qld) is a Spangle Cinnamon Grey Cock which is well proportioned but less showmanship. Lovely face with very good width and height and good variety markings.
Third owned by Jeff Leong (Vic) Cinnamon Greygreen Cock with good body and top end but missing balance between body and tail as tail appears to be slightly to long. Good shoulder width and top end. Variety markings are fine.
Fourth owned by Demarti & Scott (WA) is a Cinnamon Violet Hen which is a good overall bird but not coming up to the quality of the top three. Very good variety and markings.
The bird that ran in 8th position belonging to J Wilson (Vic) is a top bird but was penalised due to heavy flecking. If it had a clean cap, it would have run it the top three.
In Europe we do not tolerate flecking and this bird would have been placed last.