CHAPTER IV 



STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HEAVY 

 WEIGHT BELGIAN HARE 



Disqualifications. ( i ) Lopped or fallen ears ; (2) white 

 front feet, or white bar or bars on same ; (3) decidedly 

 wry front feet ; (4) wry tail ; (5) mature specimens 

 weighing less than ten pounds. A specimen should have 

 the benefit of any doubt. 



Description 



Colour. Ticking should be moderately plentiful and 

 quite wavy, ranging in importance as to quantity in the 

 order in which the sections are here named : viz., hips, 

 back, upper sides ; it should not extend to lower sides, 

 over shoulders, nor on breast and front legs. 



Special sections, a deep cream colour under jaws, a 

 bright cream colour under belly, and white under tail. 



Lacing, dense black, extensive in length, and confined 

 closely to edge of ear. Colour proper, rich rufus red, 

 not smudgy, and free from dense blue under colour. 



Size. The animal should be long in vertebrae, between 

 couplings, long in limb, have ears five and a half inches, 

 and possess large eyes. 



Weight. Eleven pounds. 



