| BREED STANDARD Page 2 |
| COLOR - MALE |
| COMB, FACE, WATTLES AND EAR-LOBES: Bright red. BEAK: Dark horn shading to yellow at point. EYES: Reddish bay. HEAD: Each feather black with slight reddish brown edging and reddish brown shafts, tips of feather black. NECK: Each feather black with slight reddish brown edging and reddish brown shafts, tips of feathers black. BACK: Each feather reddish brown with very wide lacing of lustrous, greenish black. Saddle - Each feather black with slight reddish brown edging and reddish brown shafts, tips of feathers black. TAIL: Main tail - black. Sickles and lesser sickles - lustrous greenish black. Coverts - same as the saddle. WINGS: Bows and coverts - Each feather reddish brown with a broad lacing of lustrous greenish black. Primaries - Upper web black, lower web black with a lower edge of reddish brown. Secondaries - Upper web black, lower web reddish brown finely laced with black, showing when closed a reddish brown wing bay. BREAST: Each feather reddish brown with a sharply defined lacing of lustrous greenish black. BODY AND FLUFF: Black LEGS AND TOES: Thighs - black. Shanks and toes - yellow. UNDERCOLOR OF ALL SECTIONS: Dark slate. COLOR - FEMALE COMB, FACE, WATTLES AND EAR - LOBES: Bright red. BEAK: Dark horn. EYES: Reddish bay. HEAD: Plumage lustrous, greenish black. NECK: Lustrous, greenish black. Front of neck - same as breast. BACK: Each feather reddish brown, free of black peppering, with a well defined outer lacing of lustrous, greenish black and a well defined inner lacing of lustrous, greenish black. The outer lacing to be distinct yet not so heavy as to give a black appearance to the bird in the show pen. TAIL: Main tail - black. Coverts - same as back. WINGS: Bows and coverts - Each feather reddish brown with a broad lacing of lustrous, greenish black. Primaries - upper web black, lower web black with a lower edge of brown. Secondaries - upper web black, lower web brown finely laced with black, showing when closed a brown wing bay. BREAST: Each feather reddish brown, free of black peppering, with a well defined outer lacing of lustrous, greenish black and a well defined inner lacing of lustrous, greenish black. The outer lacing to be distinct yet not so heavy as to give a black appearance to the bird in the show pen. BODY AND FLUFF: Black preferred. LEGS AND TOES: Thighs - same as breast. Shanks and toes - yellow. UNDERCOLOR IN ALL SECTIONS: Dark slate. |
| A big thank you to Scott Shilala for his help in getting us this copy of the Standard!! |