What is BBR?
He looks like a Partridge to me. Pink legs is more common on Crele Penedesencas, which have white legs.
I wouldn't read a lot into the leg color in regards to crosses. I have only raised blacks which are supposed to have dark slate legs but I still get fairly light and pinkish legs on a lot of birds. They've never been crossed with any other variety in all the years they've been here.
Keep in mind that while the breed is quite old, it was a landrace fowl that came in all sorts of colors. They weren't standardized into the 4 varieties till the mid 1980s. Many other breeds have been standardized into varieties for a hundred years or even much longer. IMO, that's why you don't see nearly as many aberrations in most other breeds. That means we'll likely see sports and other color variations for a long time. What we can do is select only the birds for breeding that conform to the standards and never to allow out crossing.
To do that, one needs to hatch hundreds of birds, cull hard and only keep the best.
That's the reason I only raise one breed and one variety. I don't have the time or space for more breeds/varieties.
Other than feather and skin/leg color, which varied greatly in the 1800s and 1900s (Penedesencas in those days were mostly black with lots of brown, red and white feathering), the dominant characteristics were dark eggs, white earlobes and carnation combs. IMHO, selecting first for egg color, earlobe color and proper combs as well as proper shape is the way to go. Once those are consistently attained, we can continue to work on proper feather, leg and beak colors.
The reason I say this, is that the egg color and comb color are easily lost and those are two of the characteristics that make them so unique.
There's an old adage in breeding chickens - first build the house, then paint it.
I translated the standards for the black variety from Catalan, Spanish and Irish.
I'll try to do the same for the other varieties some day.
Here is the standard for blacks.
Black Penedesenca Standards
The following is the best and most complete information I've gleaned from the Catalonian and Irish standards. Standards in Argentina are the same as in Spain(Catalonia)
Where the standards are different, I’ve noted that.
COLOR:
COMB, FACE and WATTLES: Red.
EAR LOBES: White enclosed by red.
EYES: Black, with dark honey iris color
BEAK: Black horn of ox.
SHANKS and TOES: Black slate.
EGGS:
Very dark reddish brown (Ireland)
Intense reddish maroon (Spain)
140-160 eggs per year
over 65g (Ireland)
60g (Spain)
CHICK DOWN: Black with white under the neck, beside the eyes, in the abdominal zone and at the tip of the wings.
ROOSTER PLUMAGE: Tight to the body, lustrous metallic black in all sections with dark gray down.
HEN PLUMAGE: Like the rooster in all sections.
WEIGHT: Rooster: 2.5 to 3kg, (5.5 to 6.6 lbs.) Hen: 2 to 2.4kg, (4.4 to 5.3 lbs.)
Rooster Morphology
HEAD: Moderately elongated and wide.
FACE: Flat.
BEAK: Elongated, moderately curved and strong.
EYES: Medium size and oval.
COMB: Simple, mildly large, upright, well sitting on the head, flat, with five or six plain short peaks, with the last and the first smaller than the central ones. The rear spur, with an arched base has a tendency to go toward the back of the neck without touching it and with appendixes to each side of the posterior. The comb, viewed from behind, must resemble a flower.
WATTLES:
Medium sized and hanging.(Ireland)
Fairly large, pendulous and red (Spain)
EAR LOBES:
Mildly lengthened, lightly lined, very united to the head on the upper part, and suspended on the lower part. (Ireland)
Moderately elongated, oblong, slightly wrinkled close to the head at the top and hanging on the lower part. White surrounded with red. (Spain)
NECK: Regularly arched, proportionally long with respect to the body, with abundant hackle resting on the shoulders and back.
WINGS:
Big, well pleated and belted to the body. They mustn't surpass the body. (Ireland)
Large and carried inclined so the imaginary line running from tip to the ground form an angle approximately 45º to the ground, tight to the body without exceeding it.(Spain)
BACK: Wide, inclined from front to back and with abundant hackles, rounded and rather short.
BREAST: Wide, deep, elongated and prominent; with well arched ribs.
TAIL:
Developed, well populated with feathers and open with two longer feathers quite curved in the shape of a sickle, inserted in angle of 45º through the horizontal. (Ireland)
Sickle feathers inserted at an angle between 45º and 90º above the horizontal (Spain).
TORSO: Rather short, wide and tilted toward the back.
ABDOMEN: Not well developed
THIGHS: Half longitude (meaning in the center of the side of the body) and vigorous with tight plumage.
LEGS: Moderately lengthened, flat, very separate and free of feathers.
TOES: Four, strong, open and straight.
APPEARANCE: In harmony and vigorous
Hen Morphology
HEAD, FACE and BEAK: Like the rooster.
COMB: Simple, mildly big, with five or six teeth very definite and jagged, fall toward a side of the face and with appendixes like in the rooster.
WATTLES, EAR LOBES, WING, BACK and BREAST: Like in the rooster.
TAIL: Abundant, long and in angle between 40º and 45º through the horizontal.
THIGHS, SHANKS and TOES: Like those of the rooster.
APPEARANCE: Like that of the rooster.
Undesirable traits –
Discard criteria in Ireland:
a) Red at the ear lobes on more than one third of their surface.
b) Absence of reddish-brown coloration on the egg shell.
c) Absence of the appendixes at the comb.
Serious Defects in Spain:
a) any golden feathers
b) red or silver in the neck;
