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Cock Alsacienne bantam
Couple of Alsaciennes bantam

Dessin Alsacienne naine

ALSACIENNE BANTAM (RR)

F. : Alsacienne

D. : Race replaced by Rhenane

A - MAJORITIES

Origin : FRANCE, created in ALSACE by MESSRS. HERSCHER, HIRSCHNER and TROG

Eggs to be smouldered : 35 in 40 grams - white shell

Diameter of rings : Cocks: 14 mm; Hen: 12 mm

Ideal mass : Cock from 900 to 950 grams; Hen from 750 to 800 grams

B - TYPE AND POPULAR PURPOSE

Real reduction of the big race. Poultry elegant woman, proud attitude, body trapu and of cylindrical shape, lively temperament

C - STANDARD

COCK

BODY: cylindrical.

NECK: carried(worn) right(straight,straight ahead), proportionned in the size of the subject, rich and supplied well camail

BACK: rather long, slightly tilted towards the back, forming an angle opened with the tail. Plentiful lancets of loins.

BREAST: full, deep, very striking.

BELLY: developed well.

WINGS: averages in long, stuck well on the body.

TAIL: full, supplied well with hooked(curved) sickles

HEAD: average.

CREST: Curled, finely and regularly pearled, well at right angles to the skull, ended with a thorn carried(worn) horizontally and getting loose well nape of the neck. Crest does not have to be hollow or too wide.

BARBS: oval, not too much long, red scarlet.

MUMPS: in almond(kernel), of average size, whites.

FACE: red, without track of white, without sleeping bag. Lively, big EYES

BEAK: of average length, hardly, colour hooks bored. THIGHS: Strong, slightly visible, well emplumées. TARSI: average Length, strong, smooth.

HEN

Look like the cock by taking into account sexual differences. Horizontal back, wide and deep breast, developed well belly, fan-shaped tail, small crest, developed well and horizontal thorn.

D - COMPLEXION OF the PLUMAGE

BLACK VARIETY

Beak and dark nails. Dark eyes. Black tarsi or dark slate. Rich green reflection. Under matt black plumage.

GOLDEN VARIETY

( Often said, by mistake, PARTRIDGE) golden yellow Camail passing in the red towards shoulders and flambÚ of black. Hen: colour of the back supported enough with rachis yellow polishes and narrow border gilded(bronzed) around every feather.

E - GRAVE DEFECTS

Absence of type ; not rather cylindrical body. Too wide and too much curved sickles; too high carried(worn) tail to the cock. Thorn of not horizontal crest and according to the nape of the neck; too short thorn to the hen.

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