Body and wing color is a very soft cream-gray blend, shading to a rich golden cream on head and hackle. The wing bars shall be a rich golden cream. The pattern varies with the amount of light colored pigment base. The checker pattern is made up of light and dark colored shades of the same color. It also can include checkers that have had their pigment modified by reduced, milky, pale, and the like, that leaves the checker appearance.
Checkers are various patterns that range from light to dark to velvet T-pattern checks.
Eye, cere, beak, and toenail color varies according to the feather color. Peppery combination of color and white. The grizzling effect is most noticeable on the body, shoulder, neck, and head white nearly absent on the wing and tail bars. Grizzle can be bred in all colors. Tortoiseshell effects are produced when grizzle is in conjunction with checker.