Color Descriptions Check Pattern Notes

 

(Check Pattern Notes): For show purposes, all check patterns of a particular color are combined into one check class. Since there are at least two or three genetically distinct check patterns (actually probably many more), and because they are all combined into one class, care must be taken to avoid the tendency of comparing one pattern to another and saying that one is better than the other because its. Checks are more open or more closed. Openness or closeness of the bird shouldn't be discriminated against in the show room. Because one check pattern is not preferred over the other. However, it is important that the checkering be uniform over the entire shield and the checkering on one wing is the same as the checkering one the other wing.

T-Pattern or Black Check is the darker, closed check pattern and can vary from the standard T-Pattern which shows a light colored "T" in the shield feathers to a bird with a near solid colored shield. The "T^"'s must be uniform over the shields and not just clumps here and there. If it is a solid shielded T-Pattern, the shield must be solid overall (the rest of the bird will resemble a check).

Medium and light checks have more open checkering and this checking must be uniform over the entire shield areas.

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