Description: Fast growing, weather-proof, auto-sexing chicken with remarkable performance laying large brown eggs.
Down coloring of the day-old chicks: Cockerels: yellow ocher with light brown dorsal stripes and white barring on the head. Pullets: light brown with rich dark brown dorsal stripes and small barring on the head.
Overall Impression: Large chicken with straight and long dorsal lines and obtuse angle; lesser than medium height; preferably no shank showing.
Rooster Characteristics
Barrel: cylindrically stretched; horizontally carried.
Neck: slightly curved; strong; with full plumage.
Back: long; level.
Shoulders: broad; not protuberant, well-rounded.
Wings: midsize; well closed; carried closely to the body; somewhat arched at the bow.
Saddle: broad; laterally rounded; with full plumage; without pillowing.
Tail: carried at and obtuse angle; coverts wide; covered with medium-length sickles.
Breast: deep and broad; lightly pillowed with good rounding.
Abdomen: full; broad; wide sweeping.
Head: moderately large.
Face: bald; vividly red.
Comb: single; with up to four to six serrated points; upright.
Wattle: oval; appropriate to the crest.
Earlobes: elongated; medium-sized; red.
Eyes: orange red. Beak: strong; medium-length; yellowish horn-colored.
Shank: short; in large part hidden in side feathers.
Legs: medium-length; bald; yellow.
Toes: straight; well splayed out.
Plumage: moderately wide feathers; slight shank pillowing permitted.
Hen Characteristics:
Conforms to the rooster except for the gender determined differences. Great worth is placed on a deep, broad, and lightly bulged breast area. Broader, fuller, very distinctive abdomen. The long and horizontally carried back merges into an obtuse angle to the tail. In laying hens, a faded yellow of the legs and a lightly flagging comb is permissible.
Disqualifications:
Triangular or extremely closed;
Lighter and narrower barrel
Shorter or hollow-rounded back
Flat, highly carried breast area
Steep tail;
Over-posture
White in earlobes
Abdomen not sufficiently pronounced in hens.
Colorings:
Standard Bielefelder: Rooster: Neck and saddle feathers, upper back, shoulders, and wing converts deep reddish-yellow with light gray barring. Light gray tint on back allowed. Coverts barred gray, white, and yellow-brown. Breast and abdomen yellow to light auburn with lighter barring, lighter gray traces not flawed. The tail is gray barred, brown traces are allowed.
Hen: Somewhat brightened rust-partridge colored mangle feathers with flaky barring marks, which on the wings may appear as light spotting. Neck feathers gold-colored with shaft lines, through which hinted light gray barring is broken. Breast color reddish-yellow. Yellowish flakes in mantle plumage is allowed.
Disqualifications:
Rooster:
Gray barred breast and abdomen sections
Missing yellow toning in mantle plumage
Sootier neck hangings
White wings
One or more pure white sickle feather.
Hen:
Strongly pronounced gray tones in mantle plumage
Black back of head
Black color inclusions in the breast, abdomen, and back areas
Other than reddish-yellow breast color.
Weight: Rooster 3-4 kg, Hen 2.5-3.25 kg
Minimum Hatching Egg Weight: 60 g
Eggshell Color: Brown
Ring Sizes: Rooster 22, Hen 20
Translated from the original German standard.
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