Red 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: intensive dark-red.

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

Back and shoulders: intensive dark red, 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, 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 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; wing-arch intensive dark-red sparsely spangled with tiny white mottles; greater-coverts intensive dark-red each feather ending 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 dark-red lace and a white mottle at the tip.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane intensive dark-red, inner-vane dull black widening at the end to the-outer vane connecting to the white mottle.

Breast: intensive dark-red, each feather ends in a large, almost round, green-glossy black spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

Belly and thighs: approximately similar to the breast.

Down: dark-grey

Serious faults

Considerably too light or too dark tint of ground-color. Shaft-stripes on the neck-hackle. Considerably too light breast-color. Too strong development of the spangles on the breast. Coarse white mottles. Complete vague blurry pattern. Too much white in the wing-flights.

Faults

Ground-color slightly different tinted. Slightly too much white in wing-flights. Slightly too much white in over-aged chickens.

Color and pattern female

Head and neck: intensive dark-red, 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, breast and saddle-cushion: intensive dark-red, each feather ends in a large, almost V-shaped, green-glossy black spangle with a white mottle.

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

Wings: bow, shoulder and coverts intensive dark-red, each feather ends in a large, almost round, green-glossy black spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

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

Secondary-flights: outer-vane intensive dark-red, inner-vane dull black widening at the end to the-outer vane connecting to the white mottle.

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

Down: dark gray

Serious faults

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