Red white double-laced

Color and pattern male

Head: white.

Neck and saddle: hackles white with some reddish tinge, each feather has a broad white middle-stripe with a reddish-brown center, formed by a narrow reddish-brown stripe on either side of the brown shaft, outer-lace reddish-brown, in the lower part of the hackle with white lacing, which widens downwards into a white feather-end; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back: reddish-brown, each feather with a broad white lacing.

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

Wings: front white; wing-bar white, lacing allowed.

Primary-flights: white, with a narrow reddish-brown lace on the outer-web.

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

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

Breast: white, some narrow brown lacing allowed.

Flanks, thighs and fluff: white.

Down: 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 white. Shaft-color too light. Absence of brown in wing-flights.

Faults

Some brown on breast, flanks, thighs and belly. Too much white in hackles. Too little pattern in hackles, back, shoulders and wing-coverts. Slightly too light shaft-color.

Color and pattern female

Head: white.

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

Back, shoulders, wing-coverts, saddle, breast, flanks, thighs and belly: each feather dark-golden-brown sharpley white 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 white stripe along the shaft, which is white at that location.

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

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

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

Fluff: dark golden-brown

Down: 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 the inner-lace. Dark reddish-brown or hard rusty-red. Too light dark golden-brown. Too much brown in the hackle. Strong peppering in dark golden-brown. Too light shaft-color.