Why is a green or purple sheen in black feathers an issue?

[Sonoran Silkies]

I read through the whole of the "Color Faults - Black Varieties" and it was amusing to read : "Small patches of white may be stained or dyed black".

Perhaps it's no worse than using bluing in the wash water for a white bird, but seems like faking to me.

You can pluck a feather and hope it grows back the proper colour (and often it will), but staining or dying a feather IS faking.

 

[Poultriary]

I have discovered a "breed" for which the purple sheen is part of its standard, it it was practically under my nose. The Bantam Standard calls for it in "Light Brown as in Red Junglefowl Plumage": "Tail: . . . Sickles & Lesser Sickles - jet black with rich purple sheen, Coverts - jet black, with rich purple sheen." The description for the wing coverts is similar.

 

[Poultriary]

I also recently read over another breed in the Standard of Perfection, the Redcap. There standard calls for blue sheen. Not purple or green, but right in between (at least in terms of the refractory spectrum of white light).

 

[nicalandia]

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what breed of Bantams?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

junglefowl...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Unfortunately, redcaps are an inactive breed, so their colour description is not in the current standard

 

[nicalandia]

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Bantam Jungle Fowl? or Game Jungle Fowl because I see that name used alot too, anyways the Red Jungle Fowl has green shine

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Bantam junglefowl; reds are active; green, grey and ceylon are inactive

 

[nicalandia]

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what do you mean by active or Inactive? Sonoran when you say Bantam joungle fowl you mean a wild mutation that happened to the Red Jungle Fowl without any human affecting the outcome? and you say something about the SOP? Jungle Fowls dont have SOP

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

That is how they are listed in the standard. Basically, not enough are shown to make it worth the cost to include the description in the printed standard. You can write the ABA to get copies, but I would imagine that at most they only get a handful of requests per year. And if they start getting sufficient requests, or the birds start appearing back in the showrooms with any regularity they will be included in the next edition of the standard.