What Class is Your Bird In?

[RossAcres]

Good morning everyone! Today I will be talking about classes of birds in the American Bantam Association's Standard of Perfection. Please note: the information given in this thread is from the ABA Standard, not the APA. Information may vary from the APA Standard.

So, in the world of showing, we have 7 Classifications.

1. Modern Game
2. Old English and American Game
3. Single Comb Clean Leg (SCCL)
4. Rose Comb Clean Leg (RCCL)
5. Featherleg (FL)
6. All Other Comb Clean Leg (AOCCL)
7. Bantam Duck

• Clean leg simply means that the legs are absent of feathers.
• Frizzles would be shown under the breed they belong to, but will be judged as their own variety.

Now, how do you know which class your bird is in? Well, here's a handy dandy list of breeds and the class they belong to.

• Modern Game
  • All modern games
• Old English and American Game
  • All OEGB and American Game (easy peasy)
• Single Comb Clean Leg
  • American Serama
  • Ancona *
  • Andalusian
  • Australorp
  • Barnevelder
  • Campine
  • Delaware
  • Dorking
  • Dutch
  • Japanese
  • Jungle Fowl
  • Lakenvelder
  • Leghorn *
  • Minorca *
  • Naked Neck
  • Nankin *
  • New Hampshire
  • Orpington
  • Phoenix
  • Plymouth Rock
  • Pyncheon
  • Rhode Island Red *
  • Spanish
  • Sussex
  • Vorwerk
  • Welsummer
• Rose Comb Clean Leg
  • Ancona *
  • Belgian d'Anvers
  • Dominique
  • Dorking
  • Hamburg
  • Leghorn *
  • Minorca *
  • Nankin *
  • Rhode Island Red *
  • Rosecomb
  • Sebright
  • Watermaal
  • Wyandotte
• All Other Comb Clean Leg
  • Ameraucana
  • Araucana
  • Aseel
  • Buckeye
  • Buttercup
  • Chantecler
  • Cornish
  • Crevecoeur
  • Cubalaya
  • Houdan
  • Ko Shamo
  • LaFleche
  • Malay
  • Orloff
  • Polish
  • Shamo
  • Sumatra
  • Yokohama
• Feather Leg
  • Belgian d'Uccle
  • Booted
  • Brahma
  • Cochin
  • Faverolle
  • Langshan
  • Silkie
  • Sultan
• Bantam Duck
  • Call
  • Carolina Wood
  • East Indie
  • Mallard
  • Mandarin

* - These breeds have a single comb and a rose comb variety. You would need to see what kind of comb your bird has, and enter them into the correct class.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

Mine is a light brahma. What would she be?

 

[RossAcres]

Mine is a light brahma. What would she be?

Brahmas are under feather leg

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Good morning everyone! Today I will be talking about classes of birds in the American Bantam Association's Standard of Perfection. Please note: the information given in this thread is from the ABA Standard, not the APA. Information may vary from the APA Standard.

So, in the world of showing, we have 7 Classifications.

1. Modern Game
2. Old English and American Game
3. Single Comb Clean Leg (SCCL)
4. Rose Comb Clean Leg (RCCL)
5. Featherleg (FL)
6. All Other Comb Clean Leg (AOCCL)
7. Bantam Duck

• Clean leg simply means that the legs are absent of feathers.
• Frizzles would be shown under the breed they belong to, but will be judged as their own variety.

Now, how do you know which class your bird is in? Well, here's a handy dandy list of breeds and the class they belong to.

• Modern Game
  • All modern games
• Old English and American Game
  • All OEGB and American Game (easy peasy)
• Single Comb Clean Leg
  • American Serama
  • Ancona *
  • Andalusian
  • Australorp
  • Barnevelder
  • Campine
  • Delaware
  • Dorking
  • Dutch
  • Japanese
  • Jungle Fowl
  • Lakenvelder
  • Leghorn *
  • Minorca *
  • Naked Neck
  • Nankin *
  • New Hampshire
  • Orpington
  • Phoenix
  • Plymouth Rock
  • Pyncheon
  • Rhode Island Red *
  • Spanish
  • Sussex
  • Vorwerk
  • Welsummer
• Rose Comb Clean Leg
  • Ancona *
  • Belgian d'Anvers
  • Dominique
  • Dorking
  • Hamburg
  • Leghorn *
  • Minorca *
  • Nankin *
  • Rhode Island Red *
  • Rosecomb
  • Sebright
  • Watermaal
  • Wyandotte
• All Other Comb Clean Leg
  • Ameraucana
  • Araucana
  • Aseel
  • Buckeye
  • Buttercup
  • Chantecler
  • Cornish
  • Crevecoeur
  • Cubalaya
  • Houdan
  • Ko Shamo
  • LaFleche
  • Malay
  • Orloff
  • Polish
  • Shamo
  • Sumatra
  • Yokohama
• Feather Leg
  • Belgian d'Uccle
  • Booted
  • Brahma
  • Cochin
  • Faverolle
  • Langshan
  • Silkie
  • Sultan
• Bantam Duck
  • Call
  • Carolina Wood
  • East Indie
  • Mallard
  • Mandarin

* - These breeds have a single comb and a rose comb variety. You would need to see what kind of comb your bird has, and enter them into the correct class.

I find it interesting that all feather legged breeds are shown in the same class.

Also would never have considered mallards to be a bantam duck.

 

[RossAcres]

I find it interesting that all feather legged breeds are shown in the same class.

Also would never have considered mallards to be a bantam duck.

It is a little odd that it's seperated by different things like combs, then feathered leg, then game birds.
I was surprised the first time I saw mallards in the bantam duck class. I would have thought they were in the light duck class. But, this is based on the ABA Standard. There may be Bantam Mallards and Light Duck Mallards. Kind of like how there are bantam brahmas and large fowl brahmas. I'll have to check my APA standard when I get home tonight.

 

[Sleepytime]

There are no light duck mallards. They are only in the bantam group.

 

[RossAcres]

There are no light duck mallards. They are only in the bantam group.

Thanks! I wasn't sure.

 

[Sleepytime]

You're welcome. I've been showing about 10 years (I think. Maybe 11). I've only seen a mallard shown once. Not sure why they're not more popular in the southeast.

 

[RossAcres]

You're welcome. I've been showing about 10 years (I think. Maybe 11). I've only seen a mallard shown once. Not sure why they're not more popular in the southeast.

Yeah, I'm in the southeast too and I don't think I've seen a mallard in a southeast show. I did go to a show with my friend from missouri and he brought his mallards, but we traveled to a show in NY. So technically not a southeast show. I'd love to see them more often.

 

[RossAcres]

You're welcome. I've been showing about 10 years (I think. Maybe 11). I've only seen a mallard shown once. Not sure why they're not more popular in the southeast.

Oh, I forgot! I just went to a show in Kentucky and there were mallards there. But not really considered "southeast".