Isabel 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 isabel yellow.

Neck: hackle warm isabel yellow; each feather ends with a green-glossy black spangle with a diamond-shaped pure white mottle and a isabel yellow ornamental fringe on the sides; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back and shoulders: dark dark isabel-yellow, each feather with a diamond-shaped, lavender spangle and a tiny white mottle at the feather 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 lavender, each feather with a white mottle at the tip; sickles and coverts lavender with a tiny white almost V-shaped mottle at the tip.

Wings: bow almost lavender; wing-arch dark dark isabel-yellow, sparsely with tiny white mottles; greater-coverts isabel-yellow, each feather ending in a large, almost round, lavender spangle with a almost V-shaped white mottle, forming a clear lavender and white wing-bar when the wing is closed.

Primary-flights: inner-vane warm isabel-yellow, outer-vane lavender with a narrow isabel-yellow lace and a white mottle at the tip.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane warm isabel-yellow, inner-vane dull lavender widening at the end to the-outer vane connecting to the white mottle.

Breast: isabel-yellow, each feather ends in a large, almost round, lavender spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

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

Down: light gray, fading to a light yellowish gray at the base.

Serious faults

Considerably too light or too dark ground-color. Lack of contrast between the isabel-yellow and the lavender. Shaft-stripes on the neck-hackle. Considerably too light breast-color. Too strong development of the spangle. Complete vague blurry pattern. Coarse white mottles. Too much white in wing-flights, leg- and foot-feathering..

Faults

Slightly too little contrast between isabel-yellow and lavender . Too dark back, shoulders and wing-arch. Slightly too much white in wing-flights and foot-feathers. Slightly too much white in over-aged chickens.

Color and pattern female

Head and neck: warm isabel-yellow, each feather ends with a lavender 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 isabel-yellow, each feather ends in a large, almost round, lavender spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

Tail: steering- feathers lavender, 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 lavender spangle, similar to the other coverts.

Primary-flights: inner-vane lavender, outer-vane slightly isabel-yellowd , lower end of the feathers white laced.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane warm isabel-yellow, inner-vane lavender 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: light gray, fading to a light yellowish gray at the base.

Serious faults

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

Faults

Slightly too little contrast between the isabel-yellow and the lavende . Slightly too much white in wing-flights and foot-feathers. Slightly too much white in over-aged chickens.