NON-BEARDED AND BEARDED BLUE SILKIE BANTAMS
Color Male and Female
PLUMAGE: Refer to the Blue color description.
COMB, FACE, AND WATTLES: Deep mulberry.
BEAK: Bluish black.
EYES: Black.
EARLOBES: Turquoise blue.
SHANKS AND TOES: Bluish Black.
From The American Standard of Perfection 2010
American Poultry Association, Inc.
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Blue Color description :
From The American Standard of Perfection 2010
American Poultry Association, Inc.
Permission to make quotations from the test of this book is granted solely
for the purpose of dissemination of knowledge, provided proper credit is cited.
MALE
Head: Glossy Black.
Neck: Hackle an even shade of clear bluish slate, distinctly laced with glossy black. Front of Neck: same as breast.
Back: Back and Saddle an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather distinctly laced with glossy black.
Tail: Main Tail, Main and Lesser Sickles, Coverts an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather distinctly laced with glossy black.
Wings: Fronts and Bows an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather distinctly laced with glossy black.
Coverts an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather having a sharply defined lacing of black.
Primaries an even shade of clear bluish slate.
Secondaries lower webs, an even shade of clear bluish slate; upper webs, clear bluish slate, each feather distinctly laced with black.
Breast: an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather having a sharply defined lacing of black.
Body and Fluff: Body- an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather having a sharply defined lacing of black.; Fluff clear bluish slate laced with black.
Legs and Toes: Lower Thighs- an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather having a sharply defined lacing of black.
Undercolor of All Sections: Bluish Slate
FEMALE
Head: Bluish Slate.
Neck: Hackle an even shade of clear bluish slate, distinctly laced with black. Front of Neck: same as breast.
Back: Back - an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather distinctly laced with black.
Tail: Main Tail and Coverts an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather distinctly laced with black.
Wings: Fronts and Bows and Coverts an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather having a sharply defined lacing of black.
Primaries an even shade of clear bluish slate.
Secondaries an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather distinctly laced with black.
Breast: an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather distinctly laced with black.
Body and Fluff: Body- an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather distinctly laced with black.; Fluff an even shade of clear bluish slate, laced with black.
Legs and Toes: Lower Thighs- an even shade of clear bluish slate, each feather distinctly laced with black.
Undercolor of All Sections: Bluish Slate
Applies to all blue varieties.
NOTE: All Blue varieties are considered parti-colored except self-blue.
NOTE: Blue Fowl, actually of a bluish slate color genetically are black fowl in which the black pigment granules are modified in shape and distribution on the surface of the feather, creating a dilution of black and causing the characteristic bluish slate color. This condition is the hybrid expression of two hereditary color factors, black and a form of white (usually with some splashing), neither of which is dominant over the other, but which are blending in character. Blue to blue will produce offspring one-half blue, the other half evenly divided in black and splashed whites: and blue to black, and blue to splashed will produce the parent types equally, while black to splashed will produce all blues.
