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Black Gold Ameraucana
Proposed Variety Standard, spring 2001
Color of Male
COMB, FACE, AND EARLOBES: Red
HEAD: Golden Bay
BEARD & MUFFS: Light golden brown tinged with grey
NECK: Hackle - Golden bay, slight black striping permitted in lower hackle
Front of Neck - Golden orange
BACK: Golden bay, each feather penciled with a single broad band of black.
SADDLE: Brilliant black, each feather laced with golden orange and with straw colored shafting.
TAIL: Main tail - black with straw color colored shafting
Sickles, Lesser Sickles and Coverts - brilliant black with light orange shafting and thinly laced with light orange
WINGS: Bows - Deep orange bay
Coverts - Orange bay
Primaries - Dull black, leading edge light gold stippled with black, straw colored shafting
Secondaries - Black, lower edge orange-gold stippled with black, producing a wing bay of orange gold heavily stippled with black
BREAST: Upper breast - same as front of neck
Lower breast and Upper Thighs - Orange gold, each feather having a broad single penciling of black
BODY, STERN, AND FLUFF: Dull black irregularly barred with light golden orange
LOWER THIGHS: Same as body and stern
UNDERCOLOR: Slate
Color of female
COMB AND FACE: Red
EARLOBES: Very pale, conforming to color of skin
HEAD: Light golden bay
BEARD & MUFFS: Light golden brown tinged with grey
NECK: Hackle - Light golden bay, striping in lower hackle permitted
Front of Neck and Upper Breast - Golden orange
BACK AND CUSHION: Black, finely laced and shafted with bright golden straw
TAIL: Main tail - Black, finely laced and shafted with bright golden straw
Coverts - Same as main tail
WINGS: Shoulders, Fronts, Bows, and Coverts - Dull black, finely laced and shafted with bright golden straw
Primaries - Dull black, leading edge light bordered with golden straw
Secondaries - Black, shafted with golden straw, leading edge stippled with golden straw
LOWER BREAST: Dull black, each feather shafted and penciled with golden straw
BODY: Black, finely laced and shafted and penciled with golden straw
BODY: Black, finely laced and shafted with golden straw
STERN: Dull black
LOWER THIGHS: Same as lower breast
UNDERCOLOR: Slate
Defects
Failure of single broad penciling on lower breast and back of males. Excessive black on upper breast of males and females. Excessive black striping in hackles of either sex.