Red black double-laced

Color and pattern male

Head: black.

Neck and saddle: hackles black with slight red glow, each feather with a broad green-glossy black middle-stripe and a red-brown center, formed by a narrow red-brown stripe on either side of the brown shaft, outer-lace red-brown, in the lower part of the hackle with a blackish lacing, which widens downwards into a black feather-end; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back: red-brown, each feather with a broad glossy green-black lacing.

Shoulders and wing-bows: similar to the neck-hackle, blackish lacing is wider and more lacing allowed.

Wings: front glossy green-black; wing-bar green-glossy black, red-brown lacing allowed.

Primary-flights: black, with a narrow red-brown lace on the outer-web.

Secondary-flights: inner-web black, outer-web red-brown preferably with a narrow black lace, forming a red-brown wing-bay with a narrow black lace when the wing is closed.

Tail: main-feathers black, sickles and coverts glossy green-black, at the base of the lesser-sickles some red-brown lacing allowed provided it is not visible from outside the cage.

Breast: glossy green-black, some narrow red-brown lacing allowed.

Flanks, thighs and fluff: black

Down: dark-grey.

Serious Faults

Too much red in the hackles. Absence of pattern in hackles, back, shoulders and wing-bows, both on the front and back of the feather, the outer lacing of which must be black. Shaft-color too light. Absence of red-brown in wing-flights. White in wing-flights and tail.

Faults

Too little pattern in hackles, back, shoulders and wing-bows. Slightly brown on flanks, thighs and belly. Too much black in hackles. Slightly grey in wing-flights. Slightly too light shaft-color.

Color and pattern female

Head: black.

Neck: each hackle-feather with black lacing, wide enough to make the hackle black and a dark golden-brown center with a wide middle-stripe, some brown in the upper part of the hackle allowed, brown shaft; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, wing-coverts, saddle, breast, flanks, thighs and belly: each feather dark golden-brown sharpley glossy green-black double-laced, parallel to each other and the outline, the outer-lace is broader then the inner-lace; the larger feathers of the saddle and the lower breast also have a black stripe along the shaft, which is black at that location.

Primary-flights: inner-web black, outer-web dark golden-brown.

Secondary-flights: inner-web black, outer-web dark golden-brown preferably with a narrow black lace, some coarse black marking in the dark golden-brown allowed.

Tail: main- feathers black except for the upper ones on both sides, which are irregularly dark golden-brown patterned; coverts double-laced with a black stripe along the shaft, which is black at that location.

Fluff: dark golden-brown.

Down: dark-grey

Note

An even dark golden-brown ground-color is highly valued. The presence of a complete multiple lace is not considered a fault in older females.

Serious faults

Too heavy, irregular or incomplete outer-lacing. Absence of inner-lace. Dark red-brown or hard rusty-red. Too much brown in the neck. Strong peppering in dark golden-brown. Too light shaft-color.