It has a large well-inflated globe that is oval to round in shape.

They should be well closed and not show a "sail like effect", that is caused by raised secondary feathers that break the smooth wing line.

The legs are fairly short without showing the birds thighs that are covered by the undercarriage feathers.

The Old German comes in black, white, red, yellow, dun, cream, mealy, silver, blue in bar and check, and lark.

They are self-colored, but also can be found in splash or a random mixture of white and colored feathers, tiger which should have dark flights and tail with white feathers sprinkled on the rest of the body, flights marked with a solid colored body and evenly marked white flights on both wings, and mussel head which is primarily found in black which manifests itself with a sprinkling of white feathers on the head reminiscent of the coloring of the shell mussel.