Buff mottled

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: medium ocher-brown.

Neck: hackle ocher-colored; each feather ends with a tiny spangle and a golden-yellow ornamental fringe on the sides; front of the neck similar to the breast.       

Back and shoulders: dark ocher-brown, each feather with a diamond-shaped white spangle.

Saddle-hackle: similar to the neck-hackle, with a short white shaft stripe pattern, this is less noticeable because the feathers ends thinner than those of the neck-hackle.

Tail: white.

Wings: bow almost white; wing-arch ocher-colored, sparsely with tiny white spangles; greater-coverts ocher-colored ending in a white spangle, which forms a clear white wing-bar.  

Primary-flights: inner-vane white, outer-vane white with a narrow ocher-colored lace, the lower end with a white spangle.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane warm ocher-brown, inner-vane white encircling to the feather-end.

Breast: middle ocher-brown, each feather ends with a white spangle.

Belly, thighs, leg- and foot-feathering: approximately similar to the breast. 

Down: light yellowish to white.

Serious faults

Coarse and irregular white spangles. Vague blurry pattern. Too much white in the breast and too few spangles on the hackles. Too light or uneven ground-color.

Faults

Slightly coarse or somewhat slightly irregular spangled. Uneven ground-color. Black splashes in the white spangles.

Color and pattern female

Head and neck: middle ochre brown,, each feather ends with a white spangle; front of the neck similar to the breast.         

Back, shoulders, breast, bow, wing-coverts and saddle-cushion: warm ochre-brown, each feather ends with a white spangle.

Tail: steering- feathers white; 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 white spangle similar to the other coverts.

Primary-flights: inner-vane white, outer-vane slightly ocher-brown laced , lower end white laced. 

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

Belly, thighs, rear-end, leg- and foot-feathering : approximately similar to the breast. 

Down: light yellowish to white.

Serious faults

Coarse and irregular white spangles. Vague blurry pattern. Too much white in the breast and too few spangles. Too light or uneven ground-color

Faults

Slightly coarse or somewhat slightly irregular spangled. Uneven ground-color. Black splashes in the white spangles.

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