Color Standards

Golden Duckwing Plumage Color Standard

Golden Duckwing Plumage

Color of Male
HEAD: Creamy white.
NECK: Hackle - creamy white, free from dark striping.  Front of Neck - black.
BACK: Lustrous rich golden
SADDLE: Lustrous light golden, free from dark striping.
TAIL: Main Tail - black, Sickles, Lesser Sickles and Coverts - lustrous bluish black, Lesser Coverts - lustrous light golden.
WINGS: Shoulders & Fronts - black, Bows - lustrous rich golden.  Coverts - lustrous bluish black forming a distinct bar across wings.  Primaries - black, lower edge of lower web edged with white.  Secondaries - black, exposed portion of outer web forming wing bay, creamy white.
BREAST: Lustrous black. 
BODY, STERN & LOWER THIGHS: Black.
UNDERCOLOR: Slate in all sections.

Color of Female
HEAD: Ashy gray.
NECK: Hackle - ashy gray, with narrow, brownish black stripe through middle of each feather ending in a point near extremity of feather.  Front of Neck - rich salmon.
BACK & CUSHION: Deep gray, stippled with lighter gray.
TAIL: Main Tail - black, except two top feathers, which should be deep gray, stippled with lighter gray.  Coverts - same as back.
WINGS: Shoulders, Fronts, Bows and Coverts - deep gray, stippled with lighter gray.  Primaries - dark brown.  Secondaries - dull brownish black, exposed portion of outer web forming wing bay, deep gray stippled with lighter gray.
BREAST: Rich salmon.
BODY, STERN AND LOWER THIGHS: Ashy gray.
UNDERCOLOR: Slate in all sections.

Disqualifications
Positive white in main tail or sickle feathers.

Defects
Jet black striping in hackle and saddle of male - Reddish tinge in surface color of female wings - Lacing or frosting in breast of female - Traces of red in breast of male - Excess of white fluff at base of main tail - Penciling and/or vermiculation in female back, body, shoulders, fronts, bows and covert feathers.  These feathers should be stippled over the entire surface right out to the very edge of the feather.

Eyes: Reddish Bay
Beak and Legs: Yellow
Ear Lobes: Red