| Key 15 : | Key for Patterns |
| Note: Black can be diluted to blue, lavender, chocolate, khaki or white. | |
| The chicken is barred or transverse pencilled but the neck and male saddle (if not henny feathered) are not barred or pencilled and have a silver, gold or red groundcolor.
The pattern is not blurred and does not persist in the underfluff. Green sheen is possible. The males are patterned like the females and both sexes can have a purplish face. Campine type autosomal barring. | |
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| The female chicken is barred, transverse pencilled or transverse flecked (wheatear) and the neck is groundcolor, little to no black pattern. The males are mainly groundcolor with a (diluted) black tail but may have started off like the females.
Dimorphic autosomal barring. Eg Friesian fowl, Hamburgh. | |
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| go to next step ... Key for Groundcolor | |
| The chicken has concentric pattern, single, double lacing or pencilling.
Can be less obvious for the males, so look at female relatives. | |
| go to next step ... Key for Lacing, Double lacing and Pencilling | |
| The chicken has feathers with a dark/black spangle on a light groundcolor background. | |
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| go to next step ... Key for Groundcolor | |
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