Blondinettes

ORDER OF EVALUATION:

General Impression (including Station). Body Form (including Size). Head and Beak. Crest. Neck and Frill. Markings. Color.

WEIGHTING OF ELEMENTS OF JUDGING

• General Impression (including Station) 20 

• Body Form (including Size) 15 

• Head and Beak 15 

• Crest 10 

• Neck and Frill 10 

• Markings 15 

• Color 15 

Possible Groupings:

Judges may wish to consider grouping specimens, when there are enough birds to do so, in the following manner: 

• By age (young vs. old)  - Young = is defined as a bird banded (e.g. 2024) the year it was born and banded/raised and shown that year.  

• By sex (hen vs. cock)   - Old = is defined as birds banded/raised the last year or before (e.g. 2023, 2022, etc.). 

• Separate barred birds from laced birds 

• Separate lace tail birds from spot tail birds 

• Separate by color

STANDARD - BLONDINETTES / Colors:

BLACK AND DUN LACED BLONDINETTES: 

Beak black or horn according to color, eye red, cere damson in blacks, flesh color in duns. Color and lacing as described under Satinettes. 

BLACK AND DUN WHITE BAR BLONDINETTES - LACED TAIL: (Added 2009)

BLUE AND SILVER LACED BLONDINETTES: 

Beak black or horn according to color; eye red; cere damson in blues, flesh color in silvers. Wings and tail as in Satinettes of same color. Body color as in normal blue/silver pigeons. Alien colors in hackle, wing lacing or tail are not permitted. 

BLUE AND SILVER BAR BLONDINETTES: 

Beak, eye and cere as in blue and silver laced Blondinettes. Wings and tail as in blue and silver Satinettes. Body color as in blue and silver laced Blondinettes. Alien colors not permitted. 

BROWN AND KHAKI LACED BLONDINETTES - LACED TAIL: 

Beak, horn; eye yellow gravel, cere flesh color in browns, drab in khakis. Color and lacing, wings and tails, same as in Satinettes. Body color clear brown or khaki as case may be. 

BROWN AND KHAKI LACED BLONDINETTES - SPOT TAIL: 

Beaks, eyes, and ceres as above. Wings and tail as in Satinettes of same color. Body color in browns should be clear brown, in khakis light beige or khaki. Reddish-brown rather than chocolate-brown lacing on hackle and gray-blue tails in browns; and yellowish lacing on hackle or gray tails in khakis permitted only if judge concludes it is typical of majority of birds in class.

The khaki laced Blondinette (spot tail) often called the golden sulphur, should be shown in khaki classes or with browns if number is too small for separate classes. They should not be shown with silver sulphur. 

BROWN OR KHAKI BAR BLONDINETTES: 

Beaks, eyes, and ceres as above. Wing and tail color and markings as in brown and khaki bar Satinettes. Body colors as above. Not to be shown in class of silvers. 

RED AND YELLOW LACED BLONDINETTES-LACED TAIL: 

Beaks horn, light horn or flesh, horn preferred in reds and light horn or flesh preferred in yellows. Eye red, cere flesh color in reds and pale flesh or drab in yellows. Wings and tails as described under Satinettes. Body color the same deep brick red or clear deep yellow as the case may be. Gray, black, brown or dun color anywhere on body not permitted. 

RED AND YELLOW LACED BLONDINETTES-SPOT TAIL: 

Beaks, eyes, ceres as above. Wings and tails as in red and yellow laced Satinette, spot tail. Body color as above. 

RED AND YELLOW BAR BLONDINETTES: 

Beaks, eyes, ceres as above. Wings and tails as in red and yellow bar Satinettes. Body color the same as in reds and yellows above. 

ASH-RED BLONDINETTES (LAVENDER): 

Beak horn color, eye red, cere damson. Wings and tail as in Satinettes of same color. Ash-gray coloring throughout remainder of bird with ash-red appearing in hackle. 

ASH-YELLOW LACED BLONDINETTES (LAVENDER DILUTE): 

Beak horn color, eye red, ceres flesh color. Wings and tail as in Satinettes of same color. Soft gray-yellow coloring throughout remainder of bird with ash-yellow frequently appearing in hackle.