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Cock Amrocks bantam
Hen Amrocks bantam

AMROCKS BANTAM (TR)

F. : Amrocks naine

D. : Zwerg Amrocks

A - MAJORITIES

Origin : Germany (The big race is of American origin)

Eggs to be smouldered : 40 grams

Ideal mass: COCK : 1000 grams; HEN : 900 grams

Diameter of rings : COCK 14mm; HEN 12mm

B - TYPE AND POPULAR PURPOSE

The dwarf has to keep(preserve) the qualities of the big race: poultry in two purposes, fast growth, compact body, wide back, deep breast, proud speed. Chicks autosexables.

C - STANDARD

COCK

BODY : average Length, wide, deep.

NECK : average Length, plentiful camail.

BACK : average Length, wide, almost horizontal of the neck until the saddle, from there lines fortifying and concave towards the tail.

BREAST : rounded off well, wide and deep.

BELLY : developed well.

WINGS : average Size: reaches stuck on the body, the knob of the wing hidden with the feathers of the breast, pluck wide primary and secondary rémiges.

TAIL : Average, moderately wide, carried(worn) in an angle of 450 without forming of visible angle with the back: wide rectrices hidden with sickles.

HEAD : average Size.

CREST : Simple; rather thick and straight(right), average size: five crétillons, the first and the last one smaller: the lobe following the curvature of the nape of the neck without getting(touching) her(it).

BARBS : Average, fine of texture, smooth.

MUMPS : Lengthened(stretched out), smooth, red.

FACE : Ribband.

EYES : big, prominent, lively, brown red.

BEAK : short, strong, hooked(curved), yellow.

THIGHS : average Length, thicken, well emplumées.

TARSI : average Length, spaced out well, smooth, yellow. Four fingers.

HEN

Look like the cock by taking into account sexual differences. Wide and deep body, developed well belly. Line of the back less long and more concave than that of the cock. Rectrices of the tail little visible and covered well with coverages. Tarsi, yellow intense to the cock, can be more veiled at the hen and more pale.

Plumage: not too much wide Feathers, under too much squeezed(tightened) plumage.

D - COMPLEXION OF the PLUMAGE

Drawing rather unrefined cuckoo. The point of the always black being feather. The drawing cuckoo spread(widened) until under plumage.

E - GRAVE DEFECTS

Long beak; not prominent and pale eyes; too short body, narrow and flat tail, oblique, too high back on paws; belly little developed to the hen; several monochrome black feathers in rémiges and rectrices; white feathers in the coat; narrow drawings and under not enough drawn plumage: copper-colloured reflection to the young cocks or strongly copper-colloured to the grown-up cocks.

 

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