Can someone explain the partridge color to me?

[SpeckledPullet]

If I am looking at a roo that is a partridge, but is mostly all red with almost no black ... is he a true partridge? Or is this considered poor color quality? Does a good partridge color have to have a black bottom on the roo? Should roos have any barring like the hens do? Thanks!

 

[Chris09]

Here is a link to a old ASOP,page 60 has a discripshion of the Partridge color as on a Partridge Rock...
http://www.google.com/books?id=rAYY...andard+of+Perfection&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Not My Birds --

Chris

 

[SpeckledPullet]

Thank you! That was a big help and answered all of my questions.

 

[seedcorn]

For me, the largest fault on partridge is red breast. Roosters look very similiar to a BBR rooster. A lot of breeders run a hen line and rooster line, because it is so hard to run quality from just one line for both hen/rooster.

 

[SpeckledPullet]

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Wow, also did not know this. Thank you for that info. It will help a lot. The roo I was looking at has a red breast.

 

[RAREROO]

And also know that the Partridge here in the US is different than the Partridge in the UK.

Here we have laced partridge where the hens hace narrow black penciling. In the UK, when they refer to partridge, is is the Red Duckwing color that we call Black Breasted Red ( BBRed) here in the US. The hens have no penciling and salmon colored breasts.

 

[seedcorn]

If you look on the breasts of the roosters, you will see some flecking (hard to not get any). When real young or real old, you will have more red flecking.

If you can tell on their butts they don't have a typical wyandotte tail. This is a fault of this breed as I haven't seen any bantams w/wyandotte tail. The SLW & whites have a much better type.

American hens are darker than European hens, that I like.