Gradations in Mold and Intensive.
Highly intensive: Bright, deep color, small stature (compared to an equally large Gray bird), sparse feathering with usually open spots such as an eye stripe.
Normally intensive: Bright, deep color, beautiful, tight, smooth and well-closed feathering without any form of fungus.
Moderately intensive: Here fungal spores begin to manifest on the back, neck, throat and flanks.
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