ABA Standard Description
Ginger Red Old English Game Bantam

COMB, FACE, WATTLES AND EAR LOBES: Bright red.
BEAK: Horn.
EYES: Red.
SHANKS & TOES: Medium shade of slaty blue.
PLUMAGE: Refer to ginger red color description.

GINGER RED PLUMAGE:

Color of Male:
HEAD: Lustrous red.
NECK: Hackle lustrous bright orange yellow free from striping. Front of Neck - ginger yellow.
BACK: Lustrous rich red.
SADDLE: Lustrous bright orange yellow, free from striping.
TAIL: Main Tail - black. Sickles and Lesser Sickles - lustrous black, with beetle green sheen. Coverts - lustrous greenish black, laced with red.
WINGS: Shoulders, Fronts, Bows and Coverts - rich red. Primaries - dull black, lower edges ginger red. Secondaries - dull black, outer edges forming wing bay, ginger red.
BREAST: Ginger red, becoming darker as thighs are approached.
BODY, STERN & LOWER THIGHS: Dusky red. Stern - Fluff, slate tinged with red.
UNDERCOLOR: Slate in all sections.

Color of Female:
HEAD: Soft ginger yellow.
NECK: Hackle - golden yellow, striped with black. Front of Neck - ginger yellow.
BACK & CUSHION: Ginger yellow, stippled with black.
TAIL: Main Tail - Dull black, except two top Feathers which should be stippled with ginger. Coverts - same as back.
WINGS: Shoulders, Fronts, Bows & Coverts - ginger yellow, stippled with black. Primaries - dull black, lower edges light ginger. Secondaries - dark ginger, lower edges forming wing bay, lightly stippled with black.
BREAST: Even shade of ginger yellow.
BODY & STERN: Body - dull ginger. Stern - fluff, slate, tinged with ginger.
LOWER THIGHS: Dull ginger.
UNDERCOLOR: Slate in all sections.

Disqualifications:
White in any section of the plumage.

Defects:
Frosty or mooney lacing in breast of female - Striping in hackle and saddle of male - Sooty appearance in breast of female.

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