Gold cuckoo-partridge

Color and pattern male

Plumage: basicly similar to gold-partridge but with cuckoo pattern, each black, orange, carmine-red or brown feather several times crosswise interrupted by a lighter-colored, slightly arched, bar which is not sharply defined.; males are allowed in either purebred or impurebred where the difference is that the appearance of the purebred is, because of wider lighter bars, clearly lighter than the female, the impurebred is similar to the female.

Head: orange-red.

Neck and saddle: hackles orange, each feather cuckoo with a middle-stripe, runs parallel to the outline, ends in a point near the tip, no high demands on the sharpness and the intensity; front of the neck similar to the breast; saddle-hackle has more or less distinct middle-stripe, absence is not considered a fault.

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

Wings: front and wing-bar dark blue-gray, crosswise interrupted by light blue-grey slightly arched bars.

Primary-flights: dark blue-gray, crosswise interrupted by light blue-grey, slightly arched, bars.

Secondary-flights: crosswise interrupted by lighter slightly arched bars, inner-web dark blue-gray, outer-web brown, forming a wing-bay when the wing is closed.

Tail and breast: dark blue-gray, crosswise slightly arched interrupted by light blue-grey bars.

Thighs, belly and fluff: grey.

Down: grey.

Serious faults

Complete off-color feathers. White in tail and wing-flights. 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. Incomplete colored wing-bay. Insufficient contrast between the light-grey and dark-grey bars in tail and wing-flights. Entire black feathers.

Color and pattern female

Plumage: basicly similar to gold-partridge but with cuckoo pattern, each feather grey-brown with black peppering several times crosswise interrupted by a lighter-colored, slightly arched, bar without peppering which is not sharply defined.

Head: golden-yellow.

Neck: hackle golden-yellow, each feather cuckoo with a middle-stripe, runs parallel to the outline, ends in a point near the tip, no high demands on the sharpness and the intensity; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, wing-coverts, tail-coverts and saddle: each feather grey-brown with black peppering several times crosswise interrupted by a lighter-colored, slightly arched, bar without peppering, smooth shading between dark and light bars.

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

Secondary-flights: outer-web similar to the back, inner-web similar to the primary-flights.

Tail: main-feathers similar to the primary-flights.

Breast: as even salmon as possible, shading off to ash-silver at the thighs.

Thighs, belly and fluff: ash-silver

Down: greyish.

Serious faults

Complete lack of cuckoo pattern on the neck-hackle. Lack of peppering on the shoulders. Shafts too light. Very coarse or clumped peppering. Cuckoo pattern with to much contrast on back, shoulders, wing-coverts, tail-coverts and saddle. Prominent cuckoo-pattern on the breast. Too pale breast-color. Too little cuckoo-pattern on tail and wings. White on wing-flights.