Salmon German

This reddish salmon color is based on a special enhancement of the so-called "salmon red."

Color and pattern of the male

Head: creamy-yellow

Neck- and saddle-hackle: creamy yellow, covering the brownish-red hue of the inner portion of the hackles; a rusty-red patch is required on either side of the neck-hackle.

Back, shoulders and shoulder-arch: brownish-red with lighter shades of yellowish to cherry-red, copper-colored edged, lighter in older male's.

Wing-bar: black, forming a greenish or bluish, moderately glossy band.

Primary-flights: black with a narrow white edge on the outer-vane.

Secondary-flights: inner-vane black; outer-vane white, when the wing is closed a white wing-triangle appears.

Beard, breast and thighs: black.

Belly, leg- and outer-toe feathers: black to grayish-black.

Down: white to light blue-gray.

Serious faults

Lack of red on the back- and shoulder-feathers. Extensive white on the beard, breast and thighs.

Small white feather-tips in the beard, breast, and thighs. Other than a white wing triangle.

Color and pattern of the female

Head and neck hackle: deep salmon-red, each feather with a creamy-white shaft and lacing.

Back, shoulders, and saddle: a uniform salmon-red, each feather with a creamy-white shaft and lacing.

Tail: steering-feathers salmon-red, some blue-gray is permitted; coverts similar to those of the back.

Primary-flights: outer-vane salmon-colored; inner-vane salmon-colored with gray-black interspersed.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane salmon-colored; inner-vane black-gray.

Beard, breast, and thighs: creamy-white.

Belly, flanks, body, leg- and outer-toe feathers: slightly lighter than breast and thighs.

Down: white, blue-gray with a white shaft under the red feather parts.

Serious faults

Uneven salmon-color. Rust.

Faults

Somewhat irregular feather-color and faded feather-lacing

 

 

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