It looks like it could be, but it depends. Some people advertise sparkly, but you can get the same overall look with some work crossing wild and Italian and/or pansy. If these were supposed to be pansy, there’s probably a good chance that it’s a vibrant combo of pansy and wild. All of my sparkly males from k dale had bright brown faces except the 1 that was fee. They had more red in the chest than the girls too, but it varried, the brown faces were the real indicators before they were foaming.
Hmmm I thought Pansy was on the same locus as wild type and you got one or the other expressed, I'm still trying to figure out how these traits pass. My first thought when I saw the color was sparkly over fawn, but when I look at the individual feather you see the rust color or pansy and then a white stripe down the center. Fawn is on a different locus, so maybe it's expressing that as well. I can't wait to breed them and see what the heck is going on! I have two hetero pansy fees that came out of the same group, so maybe they just gave me a "mixed bag" with anything that could carry pansy.
