That sheds some light on my experiences trying to breed Golds this year. I had one Gold female, and I bred her and some of her Silver sisters back to their Silver sire (since he had to carry Gold) hoping to increase the frequency of Gold in my flock.
I got 100% Silvers.
This tells me that...
I have a copy of the APA standard (obtained prior to its being printed in the Standard, from the APA). I won't quote it in its entirety because it's four pages long--and it would be a copyright violation . While it doesn't explicity state that the Gold Phase is NOT accepted, it doesn't...
Drakes with blue speculae win in the U.S. because that's what the American standard calls for. There is no 1949 standard, because that's the year the birds that formed the foundation of the breed first appeared as mutations from a flock of Khaki Cambells. I would guess that the British...
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Here's the only gold phase I've seen so far. She hatched last spring from silver phase parents. The picture was taken last summer, and she's just a tad darker overall now.
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