Quote: Shafting is the incorrect color/incomplete color in the direct vein of the feather.
Shafting..all though beautiful in this type of bird, it is correct, but not wyndottes.
I wish I could post pictures from the SOP(BLRW are NOT in the SOP yet). I pulled these off the net. These are not wyndottes obviously, but perhaps because they are not you can see a difference. Not all feathers are going to be perfectly colored. Go to
http://www.bluelacedred.com/color standard.html to find a ruff draft of the outline. Right now I do not think shafting is a culling offence since that is not a top problem of the BLRW. They need more consistency. I have 50 chicks and no consistency. Most are culls. I know that is the name of the game in the beginning. I know that is the name of the game in the beginning of any project and I give so much credit for all the people who have worked for so many years on this project. It has a good 5 more years worth of work before anything even formalizes. I am going to show them. I was hoping for later this year. I am still hoping. It might have to wait for another NYD hatch and next year. I have all dark birds...but I also have orange, and the wrong leg color from going so dark. Leg color is hard to get right. Once correct and bred correct it should work fine, but that darn orange. It is dark..but it is orange. I have beautiful mahogany too. But I have some beautiful round building blocks. Solid, round, beautiful. I have beautiful clean combs. My beaks are to long. I am jealous of all the short tiny beaks. I have one pullet i am keeping just for her beak. her color is awful..smudgy..but that beak..perfect. I have a male..beautiful color, beautiful round body..tiny..he is sooo tiny. I want to keep him..but I know it will set me back, he also has darker legs. Not that nice yellow. I wish I know someone who was doing a bantam project. OK enough of what is going on with my problems in my breeding.