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Thank you. This is actually what I was thinking, I didn't want to suggest anything though and sway opinion.
(and I really do not know, it was a lucky guess inside my head)
Is there any significance/name to that pattern around her neck? Is that called Columbian? Colombian?
Hackle black.
The columbian effect is not very noticable on wheaten hens since their body is already free of most black pattern.
On the males however it would be the substitution of the black breast and wingbands with the gold groundcolor;
the body is groundcolored.
On the hen it also equalizes the groundcolor; less red and wheaten, more gold in hue.
On a wheaten hen there would be little hackle black. Melanizers (black enhancers) like melanotic or charcoal, are necessary to make a hackle pattern like hers.
Hard to tell which it is, also because many melanizers are unknown.
