Sold to Jake Stein, Ohio
The Bantam Standard: BLUE Plumage Description
"Color Of Male
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.
WINGS: Shoulders,
Fronts, Bows, and Coverts - uniform 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 webs clearly and sharply laced with
bluish black, a lustrous bluish black shafting.
BREAST, BODY, STERN,
& LOWER THIGHS: a uniform shade of plain slaty blue clearly and sharply
laced with lustrous bluish black.
UNDERCOLOR: Uniform
slaty blue in all sections.
Color Of Female
HEAD: Slaty Blue.
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.
WINGS: Shoulders,
Fronts, Bows, and Coverts - a uniform 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 webs clearly and sharply laced with
bluish black, a lustrous bluish black shafting.
BREAST, BODY, STERN,
& LOWER THIGHS: a uniform shade of plain slaty blue clearly and sharply
laced with lustrous bluish black.
UNDERCOLOR: Uniform
slaty blue in all sections.
Judging
instructions. Lacing in the 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." From the Bantam Standard (ABA) Order
a copy here.
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"Blue: Thirty-one breeds have blue varieties but only the Blue Andalusian meets the
requirement for blue plumage. Of these other blues, some show very
little edging of the feathers which qualifies them as poor blues . . .Others
show the required dark hackle plus rather distinct edging - - in other words they
approach but do not reach the ideal as found in the Blue Andalusian".. .
. Bantam Chickens by Fred P. Jeffrey
"The genotype of the laced plumage pattern of the Blue
Andalusian is E/E Bl/bl+ Co/Co (Ml-Pg)/(Ml-Pg)." . . From
Inheritance of the laced plumage pattern of the blue Andalusian
bantam by W. C. Carefoot.
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Additonal
Araucana Breeders Currently Working on the APA
Blue Variety in Large Fowl Araucana
1) Jan Burke, Pocola, Oklahoma
2) Thom Wright, Queen Creek, Arizona
3) Jake Stein, Madison, Ohio
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