Regarding the Splash Color description:
This is what the APA is using for Modern Game Bantams and I would expect the Marans...or any other breed to have the same description with the exception of the eye color.
This is just for reference until there is an official Marans Splash description. I can't imagine it being different though.....except for the eye color.
Walt
SPLASH MODERN GAME BANTAMS
DISQUALIFICATIONS
Any appearance of rust in the plumage. More than 50% blue in the plumage.
COLOR MALE
COMB, FACE, WATTLES AND EAR-LOBES: Bright red.
BEAK: Varying from horn to black.
EYES: Dark brown.
HEAD: Slate blue and white with faint bluish-gray tinge.
NECK: Hackle blue and white with faint bluish-gray tinge.
Front of neck Sooty white with blue splashes.
BACK: Blue and white with faint bluish-gray tinge.
TAIL: Sooty white with lesser amounts of blue than the body plumage.
WINGS: Shoulders and fronts sooty white with blue splashes.
Bows sooty white with blue splashes.
Coverts sooty white with blue splashes.
Primaries sooty white with lesser amounts of blue than the body plumage.
Secondaries sooty white with lesser amounts of blue than the body plumage.
BREAST: Sooty white with blue splashes.
BODY AND STERN: Sooty white with blue splashes.
LEGS AND TOES: Sooty white with blue splashes.
Shanks and Toes bluish slate.
COLOR FEMALE
COMB, FACE, WATTLES AND EAR-LOBES: Bright red.
BEAK: Varying from horn to black.
EYES: Dark brown.
HEAD: Plumage - Sooty white with blue splashes.
NECK: Sooty white with blue splashes.
BACK: Sooty white with blue splashes.
TAIL: Sooty white with lesser amounts of blue than the body plumage.
WINGS: Shoulders, Fronts, Bows, and Coverts sooty white with blue splashes.
Primaries and Secondaries sooty white with lesser amounts of blue than the body plumage.
BREAST: Sooty white with blue splashes.
BODY AND STERN: Sooty white with blue splashes.
LEGS AND TOES: Lower thighs - sooty white with blue splashes.
Shanks and Toes bluish slate.
