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Hmmmm. So does that mean my boys are Silver? They definitely have black stripping in their neck hackles, from what I remember. At least one of them does anyway.
like I said, the top ones are silver ducking, bottom 3 are silver birchen, the odd ball in question is a mix, looks to have a bit of both in him, yet has some red leakage in the shoulders too, so not really a true color just a mix. From what I have seen and been told , duckwings of any breed with a touch of black in the hackle are just showing a little birchen in their blood. Would not be considered true to the standard for the color.
I agree with Aubrey, Silver is a gene, not a pattern and in the case of Phoenix, Duckwing is the typical pattern , so they are expressing the silver where it would be expressed in the Duckwing pattern, and like any breed or color that has their imperfections, they extra black streaks would be just the little imperfections. An other characteristic of Duckwings are that the hens have salmon colored breasts, so my point there is you dont see "Silver" hens without the salmon colored breasts, they are all salmon breasted like all Duckwing based hens. So Silver Phoenix are Silver duckwing colored, Golden Phoenix are Golden duckwing ( Silver with Autosomal Red in the males) and B B Red Phoenix are Red Duckwing, its just that unlike Old English Games, the Duckwing part isnt always used in the name when referring to the bird.
And also like Aubrey said, the bird in the last pics is Birchen ( Silver Birchen).
