Gold 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 green-glossy black V-shaped spangle and a tiny mottle at the tip, on the sides a golden-yellow ornamental fringe; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back: dark reddish ocher-color, each feather with a diamond-shaped, green-glossy black spangle and a tiny white mottle at the tip.

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

Tail: steering-feathers black, each feather with a white mottle at the tip; sickles and coverts green-glossy black with a tiny white almost V-shaped mottle at the tip.

Wings: bow almost black; shoulder and wing-arch reddish ocher-color, sparsely with tiny white mottles; greater-coverts warm ocher-color, each feather ends in a large, almost round, green-glossy black spangle with a almost V-shaped white mottle, forming a clear black and white wing-bar when the wing is closed.

Primary-flights: inner-vane black, outer-vane black with a narrow brown lace and a white mottle at the tip.

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

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

Thighs, belly, rear-part, leg- and foot-feathering: roughly similar to the breast.

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

Serious faults

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

Faults

Ground-color slightly different tinted. Slightly too much white in wing-flights,leg- and foot-feathering. Slightly too much white in over-aged chickens.

Color and pattern female

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

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

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

Primary-flights: inner-vane black, outer-vane slightly brown laced , lower end of the feathers white laced.

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

Thighs, belly, rear-part, leg- and foot-feathering : roughly similar to the breast.

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

Serious faults

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

Faults

Ground-color slightly different tinted. Slightly too much white in wing-flights, leg- and foot-feathering. Slightly too much white in over-aged chickens.