Head faults: Skull “domed” or inclined; furrowed by a medial line; skull too long for breadth, or vice versa; stop too shallow; brow and skull too slanting. Eyes small or sunken; too prominent; light color; showing too much white or haw. Muzzle wedge shaped or lacking depth; down faced; too much cut out below the eyes; pinched nostrils; protruding teeth; weak lower jaw; showing “turn up.” Poorly carried ears or out of proportion.
3 Neck: Of fair length,
5 neck: Of fair length,
slightly arched
and without throatiness and
carrying the head
slightly arched.
gracefully; setting
neatly into shoulders.
Neck faults:
Ewe-necked;
throatiness; short
and
thick.
15 Body: Deep with good
15 body: Deep and broad of
width of chest;
chest, well ribbed up.
shoulders sloping;
back Back short, not roached.
short; ribs deep
and Loins and quarters strong.
well sprung, carried
well back of loins;
loins short and
muscular; rump
curving
slightly to set-on
of
tail. Flank
slightly cut
up. The body
should
appear short,
but not
chunky.
Body faults: Flat sides; narrow chest; long or slack loins; roach back; sway back; too much cut up in flank.
4 Elbows: Standing 2 elbows: Standing neither neither in nor out. in nor out.
5 FORELEGS: Set moderately
4 forelegs: Wide apart,
wide apart and
on a line straight and well
with the points
of the muscled.
shoulders; straight
in
bone and well
muscled;
pasterns short
and
strong.
5 HINDLEGS: Set true; bent
4 hindlegs: Straight,
at stifles; short from quite long from
stifle
hocks to feet; hocks to hock (which
should
turning neither in nor turn neither
in nor
out; thighs strong and out), short
and straight
well muscled. from hock to
pasterns.
Thighs well
muscled.
Hocks not too
prominent.
5 Feet: Round, small and 2 feet: Small, nearly compact, and turned round, and turned neither in nor out; toes neither in nor out. Toes well arched. compact and arched.
Leg and feet faults: Loose shoulders or elbows; hind legs too straight at stifles; hocks too prominent; long or weak pasterns; splay feet.
5 Tail: Set-on low; short,
10 tail: Set-on low, short,
fine and tapering;
fine and tapering,