2026 Class 28 - Hens ASC ASV

Judges Comments:

Not only are you dealing with an array of different styles and types, you're also dealing with a mixture of varieties, so it always makes for an interesting class and interesting experience.

Some silver hens right throughout. As I said, variations in type, you know.

But all very good hands in their own right. Today, the hand that worked itself to the top relatively quickly in the class and we didn't move from an acquisition.

Cage M owned by Ian Hunter from Victoria, The cinnamon Green, She's a hot and cold sort of a hen. She has her mind when she's bouncing around on the floor, she can look a bit closer in those primary and secondary flights. But when she gets up and she behaves herself and starts to relax, she pulls. She's just a powerful hen. She's three-dimensional. You look at her from front on, from the side, from the back. She's just got it going on all around so thick right through that top end. She's enormous hen. She stands so well off the perch. She's a big strong shoulder hen, broad chested. And when she gets up and pulls it on and bath, she just looks really really does look the part, so congratulations to the breeder of that bird. Just the size placed over the greygreen normal here in a second of day

Cage K owned by Peter Thurn form Victoria, She's a really, really top quality feathered sort of hen, super width of cap. Just the feather texture is absolutely outstanding. Depth of mask when she's pulling back, she tends to look a bit flat in her cap, but when she does relax and chat a bit, she does push it forward, and she has got a lot of feather quality. Really good style of hen, and a really good second place getter.

Cage G owned by Holmes family from South Australia, the hen that ran third today, normal grey, I really do appreciate this. And another day, you know she probably would have comfortably pushed into second place. She's just a little out of nick today. Conditioned through that cap. She's a bit down in cere colour. But you can see, she's just a powerful hen, thick through her shoulder. Really good feather on the top. But as I said, today is just condition hurt her a bit and affected her placing slightly.

Cage S owned by Jupp & Scheerer from New South Wales, Cage E owned by Sheppard & Flanagan from Victoria, then we move on into fourth and fifth, couple of cinnamon greygreens, Cage S and Cage E. They're very similar. Again, we've come down to splitting hairs with those 2. We felt the hen in S just had a bit more directional feather off the cere. They're both very similar styles of him, not much between them at all. So they were both really good complete hands all around us, and very good feather condition