Porcelain Plumage Color Standard

Porcelain Plumage

Color of Male
HEAD: Beige, each feather tipped with a small white spangle, a narrow slaty blue bar dividing the white from the balance of the feather.
NECK: Hackle - lustrous straw, each feather having a slaty blue stripe extending lengthwise through the middle of the feather and terminating short of the end of the feather, tipped with a diamond-shaped white spangle.  Front of Neck - same as breast.
BACK: Lustrous straw, each feather having a slaty blue stripe extending lengthwise through lower part of feather, terminating near end of feather, tipped with a diamond-shaped white spangle, the slaty blue stripe broadening out to edge of feather where it joins the spangle.
SADDLE: Same as hackle.
TAIL: Main Tail - light slaty blue, each feather tipped with white.  Sickles & Loesser Sickles - light slaty blue, each feather tipped with a V-shaped white spangle.  Converts - same as lesser sickles.
WINGS: Shoulders & Fronts - same as breast.  Bows - lustrous beige, each feather tipped with a pure white spangle.  Coverts - beige, each feather having a V-shaped pure white spangle at end of feather, a V-shaped bar and spangle being larger and more pronouned than other spanglings, the whole forming two distinct bars across wings.  Primaries - slaty blue, lower edges slightly edged with beige, lower portion of feather edged with white.  Secondaries - outer webs beige; inner webs slaty blue extending into outer webs near end of feather, end of each feather tipped with white.
BREAST: Beige, each feather tipped with a V-shaped white spangle, a V-shaped bar of slaty b lue dividing white from rest of feather.
BODY & STERN: Same as breast.
LOWER THIGHS: Same as back.
UNDERCOLOR: White, with slight graying tinge in all sections.

Color of Female
HEAD: Beige, each feather marked with V-shaped spangle of slaty blue near end of feather, end of feather tipped with V-shaped white spangle.
NECK: Hackle - same as head.  Front of Neck - same as breast.
BACK & CUSHION: Rich beige, otherwise same as head.
TAIL: Main Tail - light slaty blue, each feather tipped with white, two top feathers with some beige on upper web.  Coverts - same as back.
WINGS: Shoulders, Fronts & Bows - same as back.  Coverts - same as bows, except bar and spangle are larger and more pronounced, the whole forming two distinct bars across wings.  Primaries - inner webs slaty blue, outer webs slaty blue edged with beige.  Secondaries - outer webs, beige extending nearlly to end of feather; inner webs slaty blue, extending nearly to end of feather and broadening out into outer web nearly to end of feather where it joins white spangle at tip, the whole forming a spangled effect when wing is folded.
BREAST, BODY & LOWER THIGHS: Same as back.  Fluff - very light gray shading to white.
UNDERCOLOR: White, with graying tinge, in all sections.

Disqualifications
Two or more solid white, black, or red feathers in any section of plumage.

Defects
White spangles that run into the blue sections - White feather shafting - Varying shades of red in plumage - Lack of spangling in back and breast - Large white spangling giving bird an overall too white appearance - Unevenness in ground color of female - Strive for uniformity of color pattern - More attention should be given to brightness and sharpness of spangling than whether bird appears lighter or darker than one's preference - The slaty blue crescent or V-shaped bar separating the white spangle from the rest of the feather so large as to give an overall blue appearance.

Eyes: Reddish Bay
Beak and Leg: yellow preferred, swarthy allowed
Ear Lobes: Red