Red white mille-fleur

Color and pattern male

Head: warm brown-red.

Neck: hackle warm warm brown-red; each feather ends with a white spangle and a brown-red ornamental fringe on the sides; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back and shoulders: warm brown-red, each feather with a diamond-shaped tiny white spangle.

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

Tail: steering-feathers, sickles and coverts white.

Wings: bow almost white; wing-arch warm brown-red, sparsely ending with a tiny white spangle; greater-coverts warm warm brown-red, each feather ending in a white spangle, forming a clear white wing-bar when the wing is closed.

Primary-flights: inner-vane white, outer-vane white with a narrow warm brown-red lace, lower end with a white spangle.

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

Breast: warm brown-red, each feather ends with a white spangle.

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

Down: light brown-red to white.

Serious faults

Coarse and irregular white spangles. Blurred spangles. Too much white on the breast and insufficient spangeld on the hackles. Too light or uneven ground-color. Too much white in leg- and foot-feathering.

Faults

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

Color and pattern female

Head and neck: warm brown-red, each feather ends with a green-glossy black 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 brown-red, 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 black spangle, similar to the other coverts.

Primary-flights: inner-vane white, outer-vane slightly warm brown-red laced, lower end with a white spangle.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane warm brown-red, 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: light brown-red to white.

Serious faults

Coarse and irregular white spangles. Blurred spangles. Too much or too few spangles. Too light or uneven ground-color. Too much white in leg- and foot feathering.