White lavendercolumbian

Color and pattern male

Head: white.

Neck: each feather of the hackle has a medium-wide, lavender shaft stripe, surrounded by a narrow, silver-white lace, which runs around the feather-tip; front of the neck white.

Back and saddle feathers: upper plumage white, between the shoulders below the neck-hackle lavender and white; saddle-hackle white.

Tail: steering-feathers lavender; support-feathers lavender with white lacing; sickles and coverts lavender; small-coverts lavender with narrow silver-white lacing.

Wings: bow white, may be partly lavender; shoulder arch and wing-bar white.

Primary-flights: lavender with white lace on the outside of the outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane lavender with white lace that runs around the feather tip; outer-vane white so that when the wing is closed it is completely white.

Breast, belly, body and thighs: white.

Down: white, silvery lavender permitted.

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern in the neck-hackle. White in the sickles. Pattern in the saddle-hackle. Strong presence of lavender in the parts that should be white on the surface, such as the wing-coverts,breast, body and thighs. Broken shaft stripe pattern. Strong yellow tint in the ornamental feathers.

Faults

The above serious faults occurring to a lesser extent. Insufficient pattern in the tail support-feathers and the wing-flights.

Color and pattern female

Head: white.

Neck: hackle, starting approximately at the transition of neck and head, has a medium-wide, lavender shaft stripe pattern, completely surrounded by a narrow, silver-white lace; feathers on the front of the neck white.

Shoulders: white.

Back: white, between the shoulders below the neck-hackle lavender and white.

Tail: steering-feathers lavender, except for the top two feathers, which are faintly white-laced; coverts lavender with narrow white lace.

Wings: bow and coverts white.

Primary-flights: lavender with white lace on the outside of the outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane lavender with white lace that runs around the feather tip; outer-vane white, so that when the wing is closed it is completely white.

Breast, belly, thighs and rear-part: white

Down: white, silvery lavender permitted.

Serious faults

Insufficient pattern in the neck-hackle. Broad and indistinct white lace tail-coverts. Strong presence of lavender in the areas that should be white on the surface, such as the wing-coverts, breast and the body. Broken shaft stripe pattern.

Faults

The above serious faults occurring to a lesser extent. Insufficient pattern in the tail support-feathers and the wing-flights.

Note

Very narrow transverse pigment bands are genetically characteristic of lavender. These stripes are darker in color than the rest of the feather, the aim is to achieve color uniformity. The darker transverse stripes are not considered faulty if present in limited numbers.

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