Isabel white 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: isabel.
Neck: hackle isabel; each feather ends with a diamond-shaped pure white spangle and a isabel yellow ornamental fringe on the sides; front of the neck similar to the breast.
Back and shoulders: isabel, each feather with a diamond-shaped white spangle.
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: white
Wings: bow almost white; wing-arch isabel, sparsely with tiny white mottles; greater-coverts isabel, each feather ending in a large, almost round, white spangle, forming a clear white wing-bar when the wing is closed.
Primary-flights: inner-vane white, outer-vane white with a narrow isabel lace and a white mottle at the tip.
Secondary-flights: outer-vane isabel, inner-vane white widening at the end to the-outer vane.
Breast: isabel, each feather with a white spangle.
Belly, thighs, leg- and foot-feathering: approximately similar to the breast.
Down: yellowish to white.
Serious faults
Too light or uneven ground-color. Lavender on the neck-hackle. Coarse and irregular white spangles. Vague blurry pattern. Too much white on the breast and too few spangles on the hackles. Complete lavender tail or wing-flights.
Faults
Uneven ground-color. Some lavender on the neck, wing-flights or tail. Slightly coarse or somewhat irregular spangles. Lavender splashes on white.
Color and pattern female
Head and neck: isabel, each feather ends with a white spangle; front of the neck similar to the breast.
Back, shoulders, breast, bow, wing-coverts and saddle-cushion: isabel, 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 isabel laced, lower end white laced.
Secondary-flights: outer-vane isabel, inner-vane white 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: yellowish to white.
Serious faults
Too light or uneven ground-color. Lavender on the neck-hackle. Coarse and irregular white spangles. Vague blurry pattern. Too much white on the breast and too few spangles. Complete lavender tail or wing-flights.
Faults
Uneven ground-color. Some lavender on the neck, tail or wing-flightsl.Slightly coarse or somewhat irregular spangles. Lavender splashes on white.
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