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Blue Wheaten Plumage

Color of Male
HEAD: Lustrous orange red.
NECK: Hackle - lustrous golden red, free from dark striping and lighter shading at lower extremities of hackle feathers, to match saddle.  Front of Neck - medium slaty blue, laced with darker blue.
BACK: Lustrous rich red.
SADDLE: Same as hackle.
TAIL: Main Tail - slaty blue, shafts bluish black.  Sickles & Coverts - lustrous slaty blue; shafts, bluish black.
WINGS: Shoulders & Fronts - slaty blue, evenly laced with darker blue.  Bows - lustrous rich red, to match back.  Coverts - slaty blue, evenly laced with darker blue, forming two distinct bars across wing.  Primaries - even shade of slaty blue, except lower feathers, outer webs of which should be bay; shafts, bluish black.  Secondaries - even shade of slaty blue, exposed portion of outer webs forming wing bay, bay; shafts bluish slate.
BREAST: Slaty blue, laced with darker blue.
BODY & STERN: Body - slaty blue, laced with darker blue.  Stern - fluff, slaty blue, tinged with darker blue.  Lower Thighs - same as body.
UNDERCOLOR: Slaty blue in all sections.

Color of Female
HEAD: Light golden wheaten.
NECK: Hackle - light wheaten.  Front of Neck - light creamy wheaten.
BACK & CUSHION: Light wheaten.
TAIL: Main Tail - light blue, outer web edged with light wheaten, top two feathers stippled with light wheaten.  Coverts - light wheaten.
WINGS: Shoulders, Fronts, Bows and Coverts - light wheaten.  Primaries - light blue, outer webs light wheaten.  Secondaries - light blue, stippled with light wheaten, exposed portion of outer web forming wing bay, light wheaten.
BREAST, BODY, STERN AND LOWER THIGHS: Light creamy wheaten.
UNDERCOLOR: Very light slate in back; white in breast and body.

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