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Silver Standard Description
Blue Egg Acres:
Does the APA Standard have pictures of the Blue Silver and Silver Blue varieties? In what breed(s) do these varieties occur?
Michael, are you bringing some Blue Silvers to the National? Sure would love to see some!
Barbara
bantamhill:
Barbara,
I will be happy to bring the cock along or we could drive to my house to visit.
Michael
John:
--- Quote ---I am totally okay now . . . I was assuming we would try to fit into a color instead of propose a new color standard . . . I missed that somewhere!
--- End quote ---
The same here and I\'ll repeat what I said. Assuming we were sticking to an existing description and not knowing if the Leghorn description would change to include saddle striping I said duckwing would be better than hackle striping without saddle striping. I would like to have striping in both areas or neither. It\'s just my opinion and I have no reason to believe the ABA has changed the silver description that now applies to Ameraucanas.
Now if the Dutch silver description works it would be fine and don\'t know why a new one couldn\'t be written to include full striping in the hackles and saddles if we so decide.
Blue Egg Acres:
I too think the hackles and saddle should match. Either both have striping or both without. I\'m partial to the striping but have to admit my eye is drawn to those males that are \"clear\" white at the tops of the hackles and saddle with the striping at the lower ends of the feathers, as in the photo of the LF silver on page 197 of the APA Standard.
Mike Gilbert:
I agree with Barbara\'s latest comments, and it seems like a good compromise. So then the APA standard picture is correct, but the wording is incorrect in that it refers the silver color to that of the Silver Leghorn, which calls for no saddle striping at all. Sam, when is the next deadline for proposals to change the A.P.A. Standard?
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