Schedule for Judging Cochins. 
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VALUE OF DEFECTS IN JUDGING. 
Standard of Perfection. 
A bird ideally perfect 111 shape, size, colour, head and 
coinb, cushion or saddle, leg-feathers, tail, &c., and 
in perfect health and condition, to count in points . 
If of Extraordinary size, add on that account a 
a To add to an “ideal” number may seem absurd. In tae 
most points it would be so ; but as regards size, there is a fair 
standard which entitles a bird to be called perfect on that accoui 
yet any excess ought to count in its favour. 
Disqualifications. - Birds not at least tolerably 1 
leg-feather in either one or more birds. Badly twisted or falling combs. Legs of any colour but yellow or dusky yellow, except in 
Blacks, which may be black. Black spots in Buffs. Brown mottling (if conspicuous) in Partridge cocks, or pale breasts destitute 
of pencilling in Partridge hens. White or black feathers in Cuckoos. Crooked backs, wry tails, or any uther actual deformity. 
Any fraudulent dyeing, dressing, or trimming. 
We have already explained that in using such a scale as this the judge should take the 
same point at one time through the whole class, or at least through all birds seriously “ in the 
running.” By this method only can he be fair, and avoid judging different birds differently 
through his “eye changing.” 
The chief alteration in the above since the first edition is in vulture-hocks. Once “dis- 
qualified,” a little later, when our scales were first published, they were then visited by what 
was fairly represented by as much as twenty points. That would be impossible now, and it 
is with some hesitation we allow as much as five points in the present edition. We regret 
this, being well assured that heavy hocks are no mere fancy point, but usually connected with 
deficient breast and coarse skin ; in this, however, as other cases, our personal judgment has 
been subordinated to analysis of the judgment of others. Want of leg-feather, on the contrary, 
is regarded as a much more serious defect than was the case some years ago. 
In America vulture-hocks arc a disqualification. 
Detects to be Deducted. 
100 
5 
case o; 
average 
it, while 
Bad head and comb 
j Want of hackle 
„ ,, cushion . 
„ fluff 
I .» „ leg- feather 
I 
| Vulture-hocks 
Bad shape or carriage of tail 
! White in tail (where objectionable) 
; Primaries out of order t 
Curved toes . 
j Stain of white in deaf-ear 
I Faulty colour and marking 
Want of size . 
,, ,, general symmetry 
,, ,, condition 
,, ,, , , (if total) 
IO 
r 
0 
8 
7 
12 
5 
6 
6 
IS 
7 
6 
24 
20 
>5 
12 
35 
* This refers to primaries merely “slipped” outside the wing. Fot 
primaries actually twisted on their axes, see list of disqualifications below. 
natched. Primary wing-feathers twisted on their axes. Utter absence of 
