Cuckoo gold-partridge

Color and pattern male

Plumage: basicly similar to gold-partridge; feathers with cuckoo pattern dark-grey, three or four times crosswise interrupted by a light-grey slightly arched bar which is not sharply defined; in male ornamental feathers the number of crosswise bars is larger in proportion to the length the bars tends towards an inverted V; males are allowed in either purebred or impurebred where the difference is that the appearance of the purebred is clearly lighter than the female an the impurebred is similar to the female.

Head: orange-red.

Neck and saddle: hackle orange, each feather with a cuckoo pattern shaft-stripe, no high demands on the sharpness and the intensity; front of the neck similar to the breast; saddle-hackle has more or less distinct shaft-stripe, absence is not considered a fault.

Back, shoulders and wing-arch: carmine-red, some cuckoo pattern visible.

Wings: bow and wing-bar cuckoo pattern.

Primary-flights: cuckoo pattern with a narrow brown edge along the outer vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane cuckoo pattern, outer-vane brown, forming a brown wing-triangle when the wing is closed.

Tail and breast: cuckoo pattern.

Thighs, belly and rear-part: grey.

Down: grey.

Serious faults

Complete off-color feathers. White in wing-flights and sickles or large steering-feathers. Excessive brown in the breast, thighs and belly. Straw-yellow in the lower part of the neck-hackle. Too little cuckoo pattern in wings, tail and breast of impurebred.

Faults

Serious faults to a lesser degree Minor deviations in color and pattern. Incomplete colored wing-triangle. Insufficient contrast between the light- and dark-grey bars in tail and wing-flights. Entirely black feathers.

Color and pattern female

Plumage: basicly similar to gold-partridge, feathers with cuckoo pattern dark-grey, three or four times crosswise interrupted by a light-grey slightly arched bar which is not sharply defined.

Head: golden-yellow.

Neck: hackle golden-yellow, each feather with a cuckoo pattern shaft-stripe, no high demands on the sharpness and the intensity; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, bow, wing-coverts, tail-coverts and saddle: each feather light greyish-brown with black peppering and cuckoo pattern without peppering in the light-grey bars.

Primary-flights: blackish-brown crosswise interrupted by a slightly lighter bar, smooth transition between dark and light bars.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane brownish-grey with black peppering, crosswise interrupted by a slightly lighter barring without peppering, smooth transition between dark and light bars; inner-vane blackish-brown crosswise interrupted by a slightly lighter bars, smooth transition between dark and light bars.

Tail: steering-feathers steering-feathers blackish-brown and crosswise interrupted with slightly lighter bars, smooth transition between dark and light bars.

Breast: as even salmon as possible.

Thighs, belly and rear-part: ash-silver

Down: greyish.

Serious faults

Complete lack of cuckoo pattern on the neck-hackle. Lack of peppering on the shoulders. Too light veining. Very coarse or clumped peppering. Prominent cuckoo-pattern on the breast. Too pale breast-color. Too little cuckoo-pattern on the tail and wings. Excessively contrasting cuckoo-pattern on the back, shoulder-arch, wing-coverts, saddle and tail-coverts. Complete white feathers in wing-flights young chickens.