I agree with
Krys109uk. The female offspring will be the base colour of the sire but genetically she is half half. The male offspring will take the colour of the dam but also be half half genetically. Keeping it simple, breeding on from these offspring, a lot of base colour and markings (lacing, spangles, pencilling) can be inferior and 'washed out'. If you only do it for one generation to increase your flock, your resulting girls should still look good.
I've put these photos in as an example of the 'washed out' effect, even though the *base colour is the same.
* Red and Gold are actually slightly different, genetically. I'll leave that to someone else to dive into the more complicated genetics about that!
Krys109uk spoke about the Mahogany gene, which is the red part.
This is the sire of the 2 younger birds below ( in amongst all the other breeds!). He is a Splash Laced Red. Below is 1 of the 4 breeding GLW I put him over & a pullet offspring.
Below is the same pullet and a cockerel from the same breeding flock. The pullet is a good example of the 'washed out' colouring you can get. The cockerel has the red of his sire & dam.
Here is the 3 of them, amongst every body. You can just see the cockerel's back in the left hand corner, pullet and hen on right. You can clearly see the 3 different colours.
