COLOUR VARIETIES:
DARK: brown-yellow (barred)
Autosexing.
Down colour in male chick is dark brown with a quite large diffuse neck spot.
Down colour in female chick is dark grey-brown with a small light neck spot.
PLUMAGE:
ROOSTER:
Head and neck feathers: almost white (light), with corn yellow barring in the lower parts of the feathers towards the back, shoulders and chest.
Back and saddle feathers: whitish (light) with a grey-brown-yellow colour along the shaft and golden-yellow border, which has a faint hint of blurred barring.
Tail: Control feathers white with a touch of light grey in the outer part of the feather. Side and main sickle feathers as control feathers but with a faint hint of grey-brown irregular barring in the outer part of the feather.
Wings: Wing bow - light golden yellow interspersed with some white. Wing
bar/speculum - in the visible dark grey-brown with faint distinct barring Flight feathers almost white (a slight hint of grey is not considered a significant flaw).
Chest, abdomen and thighs: Upper chest (foreneck) is almost a mixture of white (light) with a very yellowish tint, that changes into a more grey-brown-yellow at the chest, irregular barring. This barring grows stronger in colour and more distinct especially on the abdomen and thighs.
NOTE: The light feather colour in the roosters can vary quite significantly, but should still always show a certain hamony in allround impression.
HEN:
Head and neck: Yellowish with yellow-brown irregular barring that grows stronger and more distinct at chest and abdomen.
Back: Dark brown-yellow irregular barring, the barring grows more indistinct and fainter at the base of tail.
Tail: Dark brown with a lighter, though still dark brown-yellow speckling.
Wings: Wing bows and bar, with a broad dark grey-brown and yellowish white barring, that grows more indistinct and converging towards the wing bar. Flight feathers primaries grey-brown with a lighter brownish spattering. Secondaries are almost uniformly grey-brown. There can be an amount of white in the flight feathers; all white flight feathers are not considered a significant flaw.
Chest: A relatively distinct and quite broad barring of grey and light yellow-brown colouring, that subsides and becomes more grey towards abdomen, thighs and bottom down.
NOTE: The overall impression in the colouring is more even in the hen than in the rooster; the barring mentioned above is not sharply defined in any of the parts of the feathers.
A-faults: Entirely asymmetrical colouration and pattern, which is largely disturbing the overall impression. Straw colour in wing and tail feathers.
Faults: Lesser colouration and pattern flaws compared to the above.
