Porcelain d’Uccle

Comb, Face, Wattles & Ear Lobes:   Bright Red

Beak:                                                    Horn.

Eyes:                                                    Reddish Bay                

Beard & Muffs:                                  same as Breast 

Shanks and Toes:                                Light slate in males and pinkish slate in females; lighter in later years; plumage,

                                                             slaty blue, tipped with white, the wide web edged with beige.

Head:                                                  Beige, each feather tipped with a small white spangle, a narrow slaty blue bar dividing

                                                            the white from the balance of the feathers.

Neck:                                                  Hackle – Lustrous straw, each feather having a slaty blue stripe extending lengthwise

                                                            through the middle of the feather and terminating short of the end of the feather, tipped

                                                            with a diamond shaped white spangle.  Front of Neck - same as breast.

Back:                                                  Lustrous straw, each feather having a slaty blue stripe extending lengthwise

                                                            through lower part of feather, terminating near end of the feather, tipped

                                                            with a diamond shaped white spangle, the slaty blue stripe broadening out to edge of

                                                            feather where it joins the spangle.

Saddle:                                                Same as hackle.

Tail:                                                    Main Tail – light slaty blue, each feather tipped with white. Sickles & Lesser Sickles

                                                            light slaty blue, each feather tipped with a V – shaped white spangle.  Coverts – same

                                                            as lesser sickles.

Wings:                                                Shoulder & Fronts – same as breast.  Bows – lustrous beige, each feather tipped with

                                                            a pure white spangle.  Coverts – beige, each feather having a V-shaped pure white

                                                            spangle at end of feather, a V-shaped slaty blue bar diving white spangle form balance

                                                            of feather, the V-shaped bar and spangle being larger and more pronounced than other

                                                            spangling, the whole forming two distinct bars across wings.  Primaries – Slaty blue,

                                                            lower edges slightly edged with beige, lower portion of feather edged with white.

                                                            Secondaries – outer webs beige; inner webs slaty blue extending into outer webs near end

                                                            of feather, end of each feather tipped with white.

Breast:                                               Beige, each feather tipped with a V – shaped white spangle, a V-shaped bar of slaty blue

                                                           dividing white from rest of feather.

Body & Stern:                                  Same as breast.

Lower thighs:                                   Same as Back

Undercolor:                                     White, with slight graying tinge in all sections.

Color of Female:

Head:                                   Beige, each feather marked with V-shaped spangle of slaty blue near end of feather, end

                                                       of feather tipped with V-shaped white spangle.

Neck:                                             Hackle – same as head.  Front of Neck – same as breast.

Back & Cushion:                           Rich beige, otherwise same as head.

Tail:                                               Main Tail- Light slaty blue, each feather tipped with white, two top feathers with some

                                                       beige on upper web.  Coverts – same as back.

Wings:                                           Shoulder, Fronts, and Bows – same as back.  Coverts- same as bows except bar and 

                                                       spangle are larger and more pronounced, the whole forming two distinct bars across  

                                                       wings.  Primaries – inner webs slaty blue, outer webs slaty blue edged with beige.  

                                            Secondaries – outer webs, beige extending nearly to end of feather; inner web slaty blue,

                                                      extending nearly to end of feather and broadening out into outer web nearly to end of

                                                      feather where it joins white spangle at tip,  the whole forming a spangled effect when

                                                      wing is folded.

Breast, Body & Lower Thighs:   Same as back, Fluff – very light gray shading to white.

Undercolor                                   White, with graying tinge, in all sections.

Disqualifications

                                                    Two or more solid white, black, or red feathers in any section of plumage.

Defects

                                     White spangles that run into the blue sections- White feather shafting – varying shades of red in

                                      plumage – lack of spangling in back and breast – Large white spangling giving bird an overall

                                      too white appearance -  Unevenness in ground color of female – The slaty blue crescent or

                                     V-shaped bar separating the white spangle form the rest of the feather so large as to give an overall

                                      lue appearance.

Judging Instructions:

                                     More attention should be given to brightness and sharpness of spangling than whether bird appears lighter

                                     or darker that one’s preference.