Origin: Thought to be Turkey or another Middle Eastern country. Introduced into England from Smyrna, Turkey about 1864 by H. P. Caridia. Traceable in Smyrna back to about 1740-exact country of origin unknown. The Oriental Frill is closely related to the Owl and the Turbit.
Description: An exhibition breeds only. There are numerous color varieties which were given individual names by English breeders about 85 years ago. The names are English but are followed in Great Britian, Germany, France, the United States and other countries. They are set out below under “Colors”. The Turkish names are listed by Lyell (1887).
Size: Small, average weight about 11 to 12 ounces.
Ornaments: Grouse-muffed legs and toes; neddle-point crest with well-developed name (in most varieties); neck frill, large head, broad, short beak, with upper beak curved and a gullet-a far departure from the wild type.
Colors: The main varieties of the Oriental Frill are the Satinettes and Blondinettes. The Satinettes bear the same relation to the Blondinettes as the Gazzi Modena does to the Schietti-that is, the Satinette has a white head and body, but the suddle or wing coverts and the tail are colored. The Blondinette is a whole colored bird, the entire plumage being colored.
Satinette: The Satinette is bred in three main color patterns:
(a) With laced saddle and laced tail, as in black and dun laced birds.
(b) With laced saddle and spot tail, as in blue and silver laced birds, Brunettes and Sulphurettes.
(c) With clear blue or silver saddle with white wing bars and spot tail, as in the Bluette and Silveratte.
The primary color classifications follow:
Blue Laced: Saddle ground color is white, with each feather edged with narrow dark blue lacing. The tail is a dark publish-blue extending down-wards from a line across the rump, with a terminal dark blue band which should have on each feather a clear, large, round, clearly defined white spot or band.
Silver laced: Same as blue laced in pattern (being its dilute). The tail is silver-grey, with wing saddles laced with the same or slightly deeper color.
Brunette: More accurately described as brown-or fawn-laced Satinette. The pattern is the same as in the blue laced, but the tail is colored a dark reddish-brown, fawn or French grey. The colored portions of wings are laced with the same color.
Sulphurette: More accurately described a khaki-laced Satinette (the dilute of the Brunette). The pattern is the same as the blue laced. The tail is a darl sulphur and the wing saddles are laced with the same or a slightly darker shade.
Bluette: More accurately described as blue white-barred Satinette. The tail is a dark blue. The wing saddles are clear, solid, light blue with two clean cut white bars edged with black at the lower margin.
Silverette: More accurately described as silver white-barred Satinette (the dilute of the Bluette). The tail is silver-grey. The color portions of the wings are a clear, solid silver-grey, with two clear-cut white wing bars edged at the lower margin with dark silver grey.
Black Laced: Each feather in the tail and the colored portion of the wings should be a white ground color edged with a narrow black lacing.
Dun Laced: Same as black laced (its dilute), except that each feather in the tail and colored portions of the wings should be edged with a narrow, soft dun lacing.
Other Colors: Other colors are occasionally seen, such as lavender, cream and wven pure white.
Vizor: The Vizor differs from the Satinette in that the entire head is a dark bronzy purple cut to a well-defined line running across the neck. It is very, very scarce.
Domino: The Domino is “Nun-marked” having a colored head and bib as does the Nun and colored outer wing coverts and tail. The primaries are white. The variety is clean-legged. It is exceedingly scarce, if not extinct.
Comment: Oriental Frills have been in the United States at least since 1879, when “Crested Turbiteens” were exhibited at a New York show. They have always been popular. The American Oriental Frill Club, which sponsors them, was organized in 1893. There are also a number of regional clubs sponsoring them.
Seven steps must follows for Pigeon growing:
The requirements for pigeon breeding are simple, but they must be followed to be successful.
There should be no relaxing or neglect at any time, for it is much easier to prevent trouble than to eliminate disease, parasites or vermin once these have occurred.
There should be no relaxing or neglect at any time, for it is much easier to prevent trouble than to eliminate disease, parasites or vermin once these have occurred.
- A dry house with the inside protected from rain or snow.
- Separate houses for mated pairs and odd birds.
- A flypen, if the breed requires one that dries out easily.
- A suitable feed ration protected from contamination.
- A suitable mineral ration protected from contamination.
- Water suitable for human consumption protected from contamination.
- Suitable nesting materials.
If any one of the seven is neglected, trouble of some sort will eventually occur.
References: Wendell Mitchell Levi (1891-1976), accepted everywhere as Mr. Pigeon
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