Here is the description of what the feather pattern should look like:
Comb, Face, Wattles & Ear Lobes: Bright Red
Beak: Horn.
Eyes: Reddish Bay
Beard & Muffs: same as Breast
Shanks and Toes: Light slate in males and pinkish slate in females; lighter in later years; plumage, slaty blue, tipped with white, the wide web edged with beige.
Head: Beige, each feather tipped with a small white spangle, a narrow slaty blue bar dividing the white from the balance of the feathers.
Neck: Hackle Lustrous straw, each feather having a slaty blue stripe extending lengthwise through the middle of the feather and terminating short of the end of the feather, tipped with a diamond shaped white spangle. Front of Neck - same as breast.
Back: Lustrous straw, each feather having a slaty blue stripe extending lengthwise through lower part of feather, terminating near end of the feather, tipped with a diamond shaped white spangle, the slaty blue stripe broadening out to edge of feather where it joins the spangle.
Saddle: Same as hackle.
Tail: Main Tail light slaty blue, each feather tipped with white. Sickles & Lesser Sickles light slaty blue, each feather tipped with a V shaped white spangle. Coverts same as lesser sickles.
Wings: Shoulder & Fronts same as breast. Bows lustrous beige, each feather tipped with a pure white spangle. Coverts beige, each feather having a V-shaped pure white spangle at end of feather, a V-shaped slaty blue bar diving white spangle form balance of feather, the V-shaped bar and spangle being larger and more pronounced than other spangling, the whole forming two distinct bars across wings. Primaries Slaty blue, ower edges slightly edged with beige, lower portion of feather edged with white.
Secondaries outer webs beige; inner webs slaty blue extending into outer webs near end of feather, end of each feather tipped with white.
Breast: Beige, each feather tipped with a V shaped white spangle, a V-shaped bar of slaty blue dividing white from rest of feather.
Body & Stern:Same as breast.
Lower thighs: Same as Back
Undercolor:White, with slight graying tinge in all sections.
Color of Female:
Head:Beige, each feather marked with V-shaped spangle of slaty blue near end of feather, end of feather tipped with V-shaped white spangle.
Neck: Hackle same as head. Front of Neck same as breast.
Back & Cushion:Rich beige, otherwise same as head.
Tail: Main Tail- Light slaty blue, each feather tipped with white, two top feathers with some beige on upper web. Coverts same as back.
Wings: Shoulder, Fronts, and Bows same as back. Coverts- same as bows except bar and spangle are larger and more pronounced, the whole forming two distinct bars across wings. Primaries inner webs slaty blue, outer webs slaty blue edged with beige.
Secondaries outer webs, beige extending nearly to end of feather; inner web slaty blue, extending nearly to end of feather and broadening out into outer web nearly to end of feather where it joins white spangle at tip, the whole forming a spangled effect when wing is folded.
Breast, Body & Lower Thighs: Same as back, Fluff very light gray shading to white.
Undercolor: White, with graying tinge, in all sections.
Disqualifications:
Two or more solid white, black, or red feathers in any section of plumage.
Defects:
White spangles that run into the blue sections- White feather shafting varying shades of red in plumage lack of spangling in back and breast Large white spangling giving bird an overall too white appearance - Unevenness in ground color of female The slaty blue crescent or V-shaped bar separating the white spangle form the rest of the feather so large as to give an overall blue appearance.
Judging Instructions:
More attention should be given to brightness and sharpness of spangling than whether bird appears lighter or darker that ones preference.
