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Colours
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Self Black
Male and Female Plumage:
- Black throughout all sections with beetle-green sheen.
Undercolour as dark as possible.
- Beard - black.
- Beak - dark blue or horn.
- Eyes, comb (preference for no comb) and face - red.
- Ear-lobes - white.
- Legs and feet - dark blue.
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Self Blue
Male and Female Plumage:
Blue throughout all sections.
Requirements:
Beard - blue.
Beak - dark blue or horn.
Eyes, comb (preference for no comb) and face - red.
Ear-lobes - white.
Legs and feet - dark blue.
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Self Cuckoo
Male and Female Plumage:
Barred white & grey plumage.
Requirements:
Beard - barred white and grey.
Beak - dark blue or horn.
Eyes, comb (preference for no comb) and face - red.
Ear-lobes - white.
Legs and feet - dark blue.
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Self White
Male and Female Plumage:
Pure white throughout all sections.
Requirements:
Beard - white or Non-bearded - red wattles.
Beak - dark blue.
Eyes, comb (preference for no comb) and face - red.
Ear-lobes - white.
Legs and feet - dark blue.
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Splash or Sport
Male and Female Plumage:
Predominantly White with various shades of Black, Blue
& Grey throughout the feathers.
Requirements:
Beard - white, black and blue splashes.
Beak - dark blue.
Eyes, comb (preference for no comb) and face - red.
Ear-lobes - white.
Legs and feet - dark blue.
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Chamois or Buff Laced
Male Plumage:
Buff ground with white lacing. Crest white at the roots and tips, and as free a possible from whole white feathers. Muffling mottled or laced, not solid buff. Hackle tipped. Wing bar and secondaries laced, and primaries tipped. Tail, sickles and coverts laced.
Female Plumage:
Except that the wing primaries are tipped, the colours and
markings including the crest, are buff ground and white lacing.
Requirements:
Muffling - mottled or laced, not solid buff.
Beak - dark blue or horn.
Eyes, comb (preference for no comb) and face - red.
Ear-lobes - white.
Legs and feet - dark blue.
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Gold Laced
Male Plumage:
Golden bay ground with black markings. Crest: black at roots and tips,
and free as possible of whole white feathers.
Hackle tipped. Back and saddle distinctly laced or spangled at the tips. Breast, thighs,
shoulders and wings: laced except primaries which are tipped. Tail laced, the ends of the
sickles well splashed.
Female Plumage:
Golden bay ground with black lacing, each feather distinctly
marked and free as possible from splashes.
Requirements:
Muffling - mottled or laced, not solid black.
Beak - dark blue or horn.
Eyes, comb (preference for no comb) and face - red.
Ear-lobes - white.
Legs and feet - dark blue.
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Silver Laced
Male Plumage:
Silver ground with black markings. Crest: black at roots and tips,
and free as possible of whole white feathers.
Hackle tipped. Back and saddle distinctly laced or spangled at the tips. Breast, thighs,
shoulders and wings: laced except primaries which are tipped. Tail laced, the ends of the
sickles well splashed.
Female Plumage:
Silver ground with black lacing, each feather distinctly
marked and free as possible from splashes.
Requirements:
Muffling - mottled or laced, not solid silver.
Beak - dark blue or horn.
Eyes, comb (preference for no comb) and face - red.
Ear-lobes - white.
Legs and feet - dark blue.
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White-crested Black
Male and Female Plumage:
Rich black with a beetle-green sheen,
except the crest which is snow white, with a a black band at base of crest in front.
Requirements:
Non-bearded - red wattles.
Beak - dark blue.
Eyes, comb (preference for no comb) and face - red.
Ear-lobes - white.
Legs and feet - dark blue.
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White-crested Blue
Male and Female Plumage:
Solid dark blue (self coloured). Crest snow white, with a
a blue band at base of crest in front.
Requirements:
Non-bearded - red wattles.
Beak - dark blue.
Eyes, comb (preference for no comb) and face - red.
Ear-lobes - white.
Legs and feet - dark blue.
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White-crested Cuckoo
Male and Female Plumage:
Barred white & grey plumage,
except the crest which is snow white, with a barred band at base of crest in front.
Requirements:
Non-bearded - red wattles.
Beak - dark blue.
Eyes, comb (preference for no comb) and face - red.
Ear-lobes - white.
Legs and feet - dark blue.
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Crests
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talk about the crest in here
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Combs
talk about the comb in here
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Toes
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Breeding
Polish info re eggs
Talk about hatch
If you are breeding for Bantams, make sure you give the bird the best
of everything to ensure that it is truely a bantam and not a
bird that has been simply set-back due to late hatching or poor
nutrition. Always pick your true smallest and continue breeding
with these birds and vice versa for the large fowl, always pick
your best large birds to breed with.
To gain a good overall result with breeding each season, try to do a balanced breeding program. If the females tend to be more on the ‘gayer’ side, then put in a male that is much darker or less mottled.
If the crests are becoming too big or loose, deliberately put together a pen where the male has a good, high, tight or smallish crest in with females that have this fault.
Basically, try to do balanced mating & you will find that you can continually improve on any issues that arise. |
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Australian Poultry Standards for the Houdan
From Australian Poultry Standards - 1st Edition
To order a copy of the Standards, contact the VPFA
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ORIGIN:
Poland - Eatern Europe |
CLASSIFICATION:
Light Breed - Softfeather |
EGG COLOUR:
White |
CARRIAGE: Sprightly and erect.
TYPE: Back - fairly long, flat and tapering to the tail. Shoulders - wide. Wings - large and closely carried.Tail - full, neatly spread, and carried somewhat low, not perpendicularly,
the sickles and coverts abundant and well curved.
HEAD: Large and decidedly pronounced protuberance on top, and crested. Crest - large, full, circular on top and free of any split or parting, high and smooth
in front and compact in the centre, falling evenly with long untwisted or reverse-faced feathers
far down the nape of the neck, and composed of feathers similar to those of the hackles. Beak - of medium length, and having nostrils rising above the curved line of the beak. Eyes - large and full. Comb - of horn type and very small if any (preference should be given to birds
without a comb). Face - smooth, without muffling in the White-crested Black or Blue varieties, and
completely covered by muffling in the others. White Polish are found in two forms, both bearded
and non-bearded. Muffling - large, full and compact, fitting around to the back of the eyes and
almost hiding the face. Ear-lobes - very small and round, quite invisible in the muffed varieties. Wattles - rather large and long in the White-crested and non-bearded
varieties; the others are without wattles.
NECK: Long with abundant hackle coming well over the shoulders.
LEGS AND FEET: Legs - slender and fairly long, the shanks free of feathers. Toes - four, well spread.

With the exception of the crest, which is of globular shape, the general characteristics are similar to those of the male allowing for the natural sexual differences.

Black:
Male and Female Plumage - Black throughout all sections with beetle-green sheen.
Undercolour as dark as possible.
Chamois or Buff Laced:
Male Plumage - Buff ground with white lacing. Crest white at the roots and tips, and as
free a possible from whole white feathers. Muffling mottled or laced, not solid buff. Hackle tipped.
Wing bar and secondaries laced, and primaries tipped. Tail, sickles and coverts laced.
Female Plumage - Except that the wing primaries are tipped, the colours and
markings including the crest, are buff ground and white lacing.
Golden:
Male Plumage - Golden bay ground with black markings. Crest: black at roots and tips,
and free as possible of whole white feathers. Muffling: mottled or laced, not solid black.
Hackle tipped. Back and saddle distinctly laced or spangled at the tips. Breast, thighs,
shoulders and wings: laced except primaries which are tipped. Tail laced, the ends of the
sickles well splashed.
Female Plumage - Golden bay ground with black lacing, each feather distinctly
marked and free as possible from splashes.
Silver:
Male and Female Plumage - As for the gold, substituting silver as the ground colour.
White (Bearded):
Male and Female Plumage - Pure white throughout all sections.
White (Non-bearded):
Male and Female Plumage - Pure white throughout all sections.
White-crested Black:
Male and Female Plumage - Rich metallic black, except the crest which is snow white,
with a black band at base of crest in front.
White-crested Blue:
Male and Female Plumage - Solid dark blue (self coloured). Crest snow white, with
a blue band at base of crest in front.
In both sexes of all varieties:
Beak dark blue or horn. Dark Blue only for White, White-crested Black and White-crested Blue.
Eyes, comb and face: red. Ear-lobes white. Legs and feet dark blue.
Frizzled Polish:
These birds to conform to the Polish Standard in all respects for type and colour. Their frizzled
plumage is made up of feathers which are curved back towards the head; the curl as close,
even and abundant as possible.

FOWL
Male 3.20 - 3.60 kg (7 - 8 lb)
Female 2.70 - 3.20 kg (6 - 7 lb)
BANTAM
Male 790 - 910 g (28 - 32 oz)
Female 740 - 850 g (24 - 28 oz)
SCALE OF POINTS:
White-crested Varieties and Non-bearded Whites
| Type |
5 |
| Head (crest 30, comb and wattles 15) |
45 |
| Colour |
30 |
| Condition |
15 |
| Size |
5 |
| TOTAL |
100 |
Other Varieties
| Type |
10 |
| Head (crest 30, muffling 10) |
45 |
| Colour and markings |
30 |
| Condition |
10 |
| Size |
10 |
| TOTAL |
100 |

Split or twisted crest. Comb, if any, other than horn type.
Absence of muffling in Chamois, Golden and Silver varieties. Legs other than blue or slate.
Other than four toes on each foot. Any deformity. Absence of black or blue
in the front of crest in White-crested Blacks and Blues.
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Other Items of Interest
We have been asked many times about whether a Polish and Houdan are the same, to answer your questions the answer is No they are not, we have done a comparision of the two standards for you to look at. Click here for the Polish + Houdan comparision
Have you ever wondered if a Crèvecoeur is just a large Black Polish, again the answer is No. Click here for the Crèvecoeur + Black Polish comparision.

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