October, 2000 Blue Red (click to enlarge)

Color of Male:
HEAD: Lustrous orange red
NECK: Hackle - Lustrous golden red, free from dark striping and lighter shading at lower extremities of the hackle feathers, to match saddle.
Front of Neck - medium slaty blue, laced with darker blue.
BACK: Lustrous rich red.
SADDLE: Same as Hackle.
TAIL: Main Tail - slaty blue, shafts bluish black.
Sickle & Converts - Lustrous rich red, to match back.
WINGS: Shoulders & Fronts - Slaty blue, evenly laced with darker blue, forming two distinct bars across wing.
Primaries - even shade of slaty blue, except lower feathers outer webs of which should be bay; shafts, bluish slate.
Secondaries - even shade of slaty blue, exposed portion of outer webs forming wing bay, bay; shafts, bluish slate.
BREAST: Slaty blue, laced with darker blue.
BODY & STERN: Body - slaty blue, laced with darker blue.
Stern - fluff, slaty blue, tinged with darker blue.
LOWER THIGHS - same as body.
UNDERCOLOR: Slaty blue in all sections.

Color of Female:
HEAD: Orange Red
NECK: Hackle - light orange, with narrow blue stripe through middle of each feather, terminating in a point near extremity of the feather. Front of neck - light salmon.
BACK & CUSHION: even shade of slaty blue, finely and evenly stippled with golden brown.
TAIL: Main Tail - Slaty Blue, top two feathers finely stippled with golden brown; shafts bluish slate. ConvertS - same as back.
WINGS: Shoulders, Front Bows and converts - even shade of slaty blue, finely and evenly stippled with golden brown.
Primaries - slaty blue, except lower feathers, outer webs of which should be stippled with golden brown.
Secondaries - Slaty blue, exposed portion of outer web forming wing bay, bay, shafts, bluish black.
BREAST: Salmon shading into ashy gray as it blends into body.
BODY & STERN: Body - ashy gray, at sides where surface colors blend into that of the back and wings.
Stern - Fluff, ashy gray.
LOWER THIGHS: Slaty gray, tinged with salmon.
UNDERCOLOR: Slaty blue in all sections.

DISQUALIFICATIONS
Female with surface of back, body, shoulders, Fronts, bows and covert feather that are solid blue with stippled lacing.

DEFECTS
Lemon or light orange extremities in hackle or saddle of male - Red ticking or lacing in breast of male - Light salmon breast in female - Black or dark striping in hackle or saddle of male - red shafting in sickles and coverts of tail of male - Red lacing in male tail covert - Penciling and / or vermiculation in female back, body, shoulders, fronts, bow and covert feathers. These feathers should be stippled over the entire surface right out to the very edge of the feather - Frosty or money lacing of the female breast feathers - Sooty appearance in the breast of the female. 

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