Romanian cherrycoloured flier
History:
Breed spread especially in Bucharest , Ploiesti, Buzau, and their surroundings.
Flying abilities:
In the past they used to fly in flocks very high for 1,5-2 hours.Nowadays the
white cherrycoloured ones are flown more.
General impression:
Small medium size pigeon having a well-proportioned body carried horizontally
on short legs the tail fanlike.
Classification:
The group of the flying circling round pigeons with wide tail and medium beak.
Breed standard:
Head:
Small, crestless,square rounded corners towards forehead and backhead.
The forehead is convex and the crown rounded slightlyflat.Convex backhead
Eyes:
Yellow-orange with double lashes delicate and white.
Beak:
13-14 mm long, thin enough straight slightly bent down, white and slight brown
shades( dark colour beak). The swellings on the bases of the beak are small
heart-shaped widely opened and white powdered.
Neck:
Short, slightly bent forward, a little arched.
Chest:
Muscular,proportional wide,cinver,slighbly raised
Abdomen:
Is courved and deep.Chest perimeter is 24-26cm.
Back:
Narrow,long,shallow.
Wings:
21-22cm long,wide with the tops under the tails,stuck to the body 62-67cm wide-
spreading.
Tail:
11-13cm long,large,half-round,fanlike open,with 15-17cm feathers,corried in
extension of the body.Uropigian gland is missing of.
Legs:
7-8cm long,featherless.
Feathers:
Dense,elastic stuck to the body.
Colour varieties:
The colour is red cherry,the colour of the fully ripe cherry.
Colour and drawing:
The colour is uniform on the whole body having the same intensity and reflexes
as the feathers of the nack. Both the feathers in the wings and in the tail have
white frames to the top of the feathers in the wings being smaller(0,5-1cm)
and the feathers in the tail bigger(1-2 cm). The tops end in cherry coloured line
so the white frame is surrounded on each side by the cherry colour.With females
the frame is usally smaller and the white less strong than with the males.
After drawing we distinquish :
- Simple or onecoloured
- Collared: with a white scarf round the neck
- Leftati: with the white spot on the front side of the neck
- Stoicati: with the white spot on the backside of the neck
As well as completely white.
They don,t give birth to many white spoted babies (florii).
Deficiencies:
Big body; roughly built; narrow; up chest; high legs; tail carried down; not enough extended; the lack of colour and the glaze; pink or thin lash; eyes different in colour or /and with an interrupted colour of the iris; white on the belly or under the wings; the first feathers grey; simple or with spot round the neck having the croup cherrycoloured; collared having white spots under the wings; small frames in the wings or/and tail or their lack.
Ring size : 7 mm
Source : feliciu Bonatiu Rasele de porumbei din Romania Editura Ceres 1985