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That is definitely puzzling. I don't have any good ideas about why, but it's interesting to hear about unexpected things like this :)

Which breed was the father and which was the mother? If you crossed a Buff Orpington rooster with a Black Crested White Polish hen, you should get sex-linked chicks (daughters show gold, sons show silver but carry gold.) That would be a simple explanation for the females being darker (gold) and...

I will be watching with interest, because I have also wondered about the effects of some of those gene combinations on down color, and how the down color correlates (or doesn't) with adult color.

That matches what I have read. I thought that was the kind you meant, but I wanted to make sure no-one else reading this thread would get confused the way I was when I was first learning it :)

Two basic points: --the term "spangling" is used for two different color patterns, with very different genetics. the kind of spangling in Spitzhaubens and Hamburgs is different than the kind of spangling found in "Spangled Russian Orloffs" and "Spangled Old English Game Bantams" and "Spangled...