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THE CAMPINES 



Wattles and Ear-lobes: The ideal wattle does not 

 hang low nor is it folded. The ear-lobe should also be 

 of medium size and smooth. Red is a defect found in 

 the lobes, especially of males. Where red covers more 

 than one-half of the lobe the bird should not be placed. 

 A lobe that is white is ideal and one inclined to a bluish 

 white is preferable to one inclined to a yellowish white. 

 Indeed, a slight tint of blue is not considered a defect 

 in the English shows. 



Neck: A good furnish of hackle is desired. There 

 is a certain length and arch that conies naturally with 

 an active breed such as the 

 Campine, so a description of 

 the shape of the neck would 

 be technical and not essen- 

 tial. The neck should be 

 white in both sexes of Sil- 

 vers and golden bay in the 

 Goldens. The neck is the 

 only section of the bird that 

 is not barred, and as it is a 

 distinctive section for that 

 reason, setting oS the bird 

 by way of contrast, it In 

 desirable that there should 

 be practically no. ,barring in 

 the hackle .or neck feathers. 

 It, is quite unusual how[ever, 

 to find sound breast barring 

 arjd sound back barring on 

 a bird with a pure colored 

 hackle. Plenty of cheap birds 

 have white or golden 

 hackles — the farm flocks in 

 Belgium have this section 

 in perfection. Only studi- 

 ous, persistent breeding pro- 

 duced the back and throat 

 barring and therefore when 

 these two sections are found 

 good, the judge or breeder 

 must bear a bit with nature 

 and not criticise the bird 

 too severely for carrying 

 some of the color into its 

 lower hackle plumage. While 

 the puie colored hackle is 

 beautiful and desirable, it 

 should not be secured at the 

 loss of back and breast 

 feather properties and judges 

 should balance these qual- 

 ities before awarding their 

 color specials. 



Back: There has been some thought as to whether 

 the back should concave as in the Leghorn or be nearly 

 straight to tail. Because of the utility value of the lon- 

 ger, straighter back this type has become standard in 

 judging females, both at the leading shows in America 

 and in England. To accord with this female type, the 

 male should not be round or concaved in the back, but 

 should be nearly straight in the back. A slight concave 

 at the base of tail is sufficient to give the back the nec- 

 essary length and flatness and at the same time '^ave 

 it from being too angular in appearance. For females of 

 this correct type see pictures of Kt pullet at New York, 

 December, 1911, and 1st pullet at Crystal Palace, Lon- 



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One of the smartest and most promising males in tlm 

 cockerel cliiss in Campine row at the VJl'i Madison 

 Square Garden Show was the winner of second. He 

 was a combination of vigor and style, with Kond black 

 and white barring and the whitest neck hackle in the 

 class — a point that has proved very rare on Hix-clmins 

 being so close to the Standard amount of color. 11 ap- 

 pears that this is going to be one of the hardest points 

 to produce on birds with Standard body markings. — 

 F. L. Sewell. 



don, December, 1913, on pages 79 and S2. For correct back 

 line in both male and female see pair of Silver Campines 

 in the colored frontispiece. The back of the Campine 

 should not be tmi broad and coarse at shoulders. It is 

 important that the plumage should be long, especially in 

 the male, the longer the saddle feathers, the better. I 

 again repeat, this length of plumage, especially in the 

 male is important. The barring should be closely ex- 

 amined on the back. The black bar should make about 

 four white bars in the females and from three to four 

 white bars in the males. In the males the barring of 



the back is naturally V- 

 shaped, but in other sec- 

 tions as well as in all sec- 

 tions of the female, the bar- 

 ring should be "slightly V- 

 shaped." The black bar 

 should be free from a gray 

 or brown intermediate bar, 

 and should be of a greenish 

 lustrous hue. This sound- 

 ness and lustre of the back 

 barring is found in high- 

 grade cockerels and cocks 

 of both varieties and consti- 

 tutes the perfect color. 



Tail: The male's tail 

 should be carried rather 

 low. To attain this style it 

 is necessary to breed plenty 

 of furnishing, that is coverts 

 and lesser sickles. It should 

 be understood that the Cam- 

 pine male is "heney.'' Such 

 a color-type as we see in 

 the Silver and Golden Cam- 

 pines is used by the breed- 

 ers of Silver and Golden 

 Penciled Hamburgs to breed 

 pullets. The efifeminate char- 

 acters of short back plum- 

 age and tails without sickles 

 are not wanted in the Cam- 

 pines. We want to retain a 

 color of plumage identical 

 to that of the female, but 

 breed as much of the cock 

 feathering as possible. A 

 male's tail that is nearly as 

 devoid of furnishing as a 

 hen's is positively undesir- 

 able. Moreover, it will stand 

 up high and the stifT main 

 tail feathers will stand up 

 like a brush. With a furnishing of covering feathers, a 

 lower, more graceful sweep and carriage of tail is secured, 

 as if there was weight added to hold down the main tail 

 feathers. In securing length and furnish of tail it is desir- 

 able that quality be secured as well as quantity. Long 

 sickles are often seen that are not barred hut are sort of a 

 mealy gray and brown. Thi.s is the Braekel tail, and while 

 it contains quantity in sufficiency, the quality is such that 

 a shorter pair of sickles well barred should always win 

 in preference. The tail of the Silver Campine female in 

 the colored frontispiece is well carried. It is expanded 

 just right and is carried out and rather low as is typical 

 of the best pullets. 



