Blue doublelaced

Color and pattern male

Head: blue

Neck: the neck hackle shows bright blue with

some reddish glow. Each feather with broad, blue shaft stripe markings with a reddish-brown center, formed by a narrow reddish-brown stripe on either side of the brown shaft. The outer edge of the neck feather is reddish-brown. The tip of the neck hackle feathers has a blue edging, which widens downwards into a bright blue feather tip; front of the neck bright blue.

Back: reddish-brown, every feather with a broad, blue edging.

Saddle: saddle hackle colored and marked like the neck hackle.

Tail: sickles, tail coverts, and tail feathers blue; at the base of the secondary sickles, some edging is permitted provided it is not visible from outside the cage.

Shoulder coverts Wings: shoulder blue; coloured and marked like the neck hackles, the bright blue edging is broader on the shoulders and more edging at the feather edge is permitted; wing band formed by two rows of bright blue wing coverts, edging pattern in the wing band is permitted; large flight feathers blue, with the exception of a narrow reddish-brown edging at the outer vane; small flight feathers inner vane blue, outer vane reddish-brown preferably with a narrow blue border along the outer edge of the feather, forming a reddish-brown wing triangle with a narrow blue border edge when the wing is closed.

Breast: bright blue, some edging pattern is permitted

Thighs and flanks: bright blue

Down colour: dark grey.

Color and pattern female

Head: bright blue

Neck: neck collar feathers bright blue with brown shafts, transitioning to dark golden brown with a broad shaft stripe towards the body, provided that the outer bright blue edging is broad enough to make the neck collar appear bright blue; some brown in the upper part of the neck is permitted; feathers on the front of the neck dark golden brown with broad blue edging and within that a narrower similar edging, parallel to the outer one.

Back, shoulder, saddle, wing coverts, breast, belly, thigh, and flank feathers: dark golden brown with double bright blue edging, the outer one running along the edge of the feather being broader than the inner one running parallel to it. The large feathers of the saddle and those of the lower breast also have a bright blue stripe along the shaft, which is also bright blue at that location.

Tail: tail feathers bright blue with

except for the uppermost feather on both sides, which is irregularly marked with dark golden brown; tail coverts double-edged and additionally provided with a blue stripe along the shaft, the shaft is blue at that location.

Wings: small flight feathers inner vane

blue, outer vane dark golden brown preferably with a narrow blue edging on the outside of the feather but some coarse blue marking in the golden brown feather field is permitted. Large flight feathers: inner vane blue; outer vane dark golden brown.

Down colour: dark grey

Serious Faults

Excessively heavy, irregular, or incomplete outer edging

absence of the inner edging

dark reddish-brown or harsh rust-red feather color

too light feather color

too much brown in the neck

strong peppering in the feather color

much too dark or much too light blue color

many black color splashes or too light spots in the blue

rust stains in the blue

too light shaft color.

Faults

The above Serious Faults present to a lesser degree.

Note:

When judging the double-laced color variety, due attention must be paid to the color of the dark golden brown. An even base color is highly valued.

In older hens, the presence of a full triple lace is not considered a fault.

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