Gold black mille-fleur

Note

As the chickens of the millefleur color varieties age, the amount of white in the pattern will increase. Two-year-old chickens generally have the best pattern distribution.

Color and pattern male

Head: dark ocher brown-yellow.

Neck: hackle warm ocher-color, each feather with a short glossy green-black V-shaped spangle tipped with a white point, connecting tot the the tip of the rather short diamond-shaped glossy green-black spot and a ornamental golden-yellow fringe on the sides, shaft golden; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders and wing-bows: dark reddish ocher-color, each feather with a diamond-shaped glossy green-black and a small white tip.

Wings: front almost black; greater-coverts warm ocher-color, each feather with a almost round glossy green-black with a V-shaped white tip, forming a clear black and white wing-bar when the wing is closed.

Primary-flights: black, outer-web with a narrow brown lace, lower end of the feathers white edged.

Secondary-flights: outer-web warm ocher-brown, inner-web dull black widening at the end to the outer-web connecting to the white tipped end.

Saddle: hackle similar to the neck-hackle plus a short black middle-stripe, spangle and white tip are less noticeable because the feathers are much thinner than those of the neck-hackle.

Tail: main-feathers black, each feather with a white tip; sickles and coverts glossy green-black with a small white tip.

Breast: warm ocher-color, each feather ends in a large almost glossy green-black spangle with a white tip.

Flanks, thighs, belly, fluff, leg- and foot-feathering: roughly similar to the breast.

Down: blue-grey, changing to greyish-buff at the base.

Serious faults

Middle-stripes on the neck-hackle. Considerably too light or too dark ground-color. Considerably too light breast-color. Too strong development of spangles on the breast. Complete vague blurry pattern. Too much white in wing-flights, leg- and foot-feathering.

Faults

Slightly deviating ground-color. Slightly too much white in wing-flights, leg- and foot-feathering. Slightly too much white when over-aged.

Color and pattern female

Head and neck: warm ocher-color, each feather with a glossy green-black spangle and a diamond-shaped white tip, shaft golden; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, wing-coverts, breast and saddle: warm ocher-color, each feather ends in a almost glossy green-black spangle with a white V-shaped tip.

Primary-flights: black, outer-web with a narrow brown lace, lower end of the feathers white edged.

Secondary-flights: outer-web warm ocher-brown, inner-web dull black widening at the end to the outer-web connecting to the white tip.

Tail: main-feathers dull black, with a diamond-shaped white tip; coverts similar to the back, the upper ones with a slightly longer spangle.

Flanks, thighs, belly, fluff, leg- and foot-feathering : roughly similar to the breast.

Down: blue-grey, changing to greyish buff at the base.

Serious faults

Middle-stripes on the neck-hackle. Considerably too light or too dark ground-color. Too few spangles on the breast. Coarse white tips. Complete vague blurry pattern. Too much white in wing-flights, leg- and foot-feathering.