Blue 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-colored; each feather ends with a bright-blue spangle with a diamond-shaped pure white mottle and a golden-yellow ornamental fringe on the sides; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back and shoulders: dark reddish ochre-colored, each feather with a diamond-shaped, green-glossy bright-blue spangle and a tiny white mottle at the tip.

Saddle-hackle: similar to the neck-hackle, the shaft-stripe as well as the mottle are less noticeable because the feathers ends thinner than those of the neck-hackle.

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

Wings: bow almost bright-blue; wing-arch reddish ocher-colored, sparsely with tiny white mottles; greater-coverts warm ocher-colored, each feather ending in a large, almost round, bright-blue spangle with a almost V-shaped white mottle, forming a clear blue and white wing-bar when the wing is closed.

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

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

Breast: warm ocher-colored, each feather ends in a large, almost round, bright-blue spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

Belly, thighs, leg- and foot-feathering: approximately 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. Coarse white mottles. Complete vague blurry pattern. Too dark or uneven blue color. Entirely black or white color where blue is desired. Too much white in wing-flights and foot-feathers.

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-colored, each feather ends with a bright-blue spangle with a diamond-shaped pure white mottle; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, breast, bow, wing-coverts and saddle-cushion: warm ocher-colored, each feather ends in a large, almost round, bright-blue spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

Tail: steering- feathers blue, with a diamond-shaped pure white mottle; coverts similar to the breast; the upper-covert on each side is covered by a strongly elongated covert, which is, except for the slightly longer bright-blue spangle, similar to the other coverts.

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

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

Belly, thighs, rear-end, leg- and foot-feathering : approximately 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. Completely vague blurry pattern. Too dark or uneven blue color. Entirely black or white color where blue is required. 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.