Red white mille-fleur

Color and pattern male

Head: warm brown-red.

Neck: hackle 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: warm brown-red, each feather with a diamond-shaped tiny white spangle at the tip.

Saddle: hackle similar to the neck-hackle plus a short white shaft-stripe, spangles are less noticeable because the feathers are much thinner than those of the neck-hackle.

Tail: white.

Wings: bow almost white; shoulder and wing-arch warm brown-red, sparsely with tiny white spangles; greater-coverts warm warm brown-red, each feather ends 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, a white quill on the lower end.

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

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

Thighs, belly, rear-part, leg- and foot-feathering: roughly 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 in a green-glossy black spangle with a diamond-shaped pure white mottle; front of the neck similar to the breast.

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

Tail: steering-feathers white, coverts similar to the back; the upper ones with a slightly longer white spangle.

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.

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

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

Secondary-flights: outer-vane warm ocher-brown, inner-vane dull black widening at the end to the-outer vane connecting to the white mottle.

Thighs, belly, rear-part, leg- and foot-feathering : roughly similar to the breast.

Down: blue-grey, changing to greyish buff at the base.

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.