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Now to get to the necks that you sent me photos of. The cree colors
are
there, but not in the density and segregation to call it cree. As mentioned in a previous post, a dark badger with ginger and cream bars would have the cree colors, but wouldn't be a cree. The underlying larger feathers are a giveaway as to the pedigree of the neck. If the feathers are badger, it is unlikely a cree variant (photo 5). If the larger feathers maintain barring and the color scheme doesn't fall apart, it is probably a cree variant (photo 1). The first photo is of a nice med.-barred ginger variant, a step to getting cree. It has cree colors, but not in well-defined bands, especially the dark bar being well defined and all the way across- even in the small neck feathers. The small neck feathers are usually the first ones to lose the black bar and just show up as a dark bar ginger. This bird would have to be bred to a grizzly again to bring back the dark bars, thus a better grade of cree. Remember though, that the offspring is a mix, with many variations (variants) and a few cree, and few of these true crees being high quality crees. This 1st neck is a nice one and a keeper- just shy of being cree. It is not speckled, but barred. One must look at an individual feather, not the cape, in assessment of speckling, as it really goes down to the barb itself. I like this neck. See part 3
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