Blue Plumage

HEAD:  Lustrous bluish black

Neck:  Hackle-a uniform shade of plain slaty blue clearly and sharply laced with lustrous bluish black.  Front of neck-same as breast.

BACK:  A uniform shade of plain slaty blue clearly and sharply laced with lustrous bluish black. 

SADDLE:  Same as hackle

TAIL:  Main Tail- a uniform shade of plain slaty blue clearly and sharply laced with bluish black.  Sickles, Lesser Sickles and Coverts-same as main tail.

WINGS:  Shoulders, Fronts, Bows, & Coverts-a uniform shade of plain slaty blue clearly and sharply laced with bluish black.

Primaries-a uniform shade of slaty blue

Secondaries-a uniform shade of plain slaty blue, outer web clearly and sharply laced with bluish black, lustrous bluish black shafting.

BREAST, BODY, STERN & LOWER THIGHS:  A uniform shade of plain slaty blue clearly and sharply laced with bluish black.

UNDERCOLOR:  Uniform slaty blue in all sections.

Judging instructions

Lacing in the male hackle, back, wing bows, and saddle should be lustrous without a green sheen.  The overall dark appearance in these sections of the male, as well as the hackle of the female, is the result of overlapping feathers.  The ground color of the male should match the female.

Disqualifications

Red, yellow, orange or positive white in any section of the plumage.

Defects

Surface of feathers not laced with darker shade-Black in various sections of the plumage