Blue millefleur

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 ocher brown-yellow.
Neck: hackle warm ochreous; each feather at the tip with a tiny diamond-shaped white mottle, at the inner tip connecting to the tip of the fairly short and tiny, diamond-shaped bright-blue spangle, on the sides of the feather a golden-yellow ornamental fringe; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back: dark, reddish ocherreous, each feather with a diamond-shaped, bright-blue spangle and a tiny white mottle at the feather tip.
Saddle: hackle similar to the neck-hackle, the bright-blue black shaft stripe pattern as well as the white mottle at the end of each feather, are less noticeable than in the neck-hackle, because the feathers of the saddle-hackle ends thinner than those of the neck-hackle.
Tail: steering-feathers bright-blue, each feather with a white mottle at the end; sickles and coverts bright-blue with a small white V-shaped mottle at the end.
Wings: bow feathers almost bright-blue; shoulder feathers reddish ochreous, sparsely with tiny white mottled tips; greater-coverts warm ochereous each feather ending in a large, almost round, bright-blue spangle with a V-shaped white mottle, which forms a clear blue and white wing-bar across the wing.

Primary-flights: inner-vane bright-blue, outer-vane bright-blue with a narrow brown lace, the lower end white-mottled.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane warm ocher brown, inner-vane blue laced feather-end, which is white-mottled.
Breast: warm ochereous, each feather ends in a large, almost round, bright-blue spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

Belly, thighs, leg- and foot-feathering : approximately similar to the breast.
Down: blue-grey, changing to greyish buff at the base.

Serious faults

Considerably too light or too dark shade of the warm ocher brown-yellow ground-color. Shaft stripe pattern on the neck-hackle. Considerably too light breast-color. Too strong development of the bright-blue spangle on the breast. Coarse white mottles. Completely vague blurry pattern. Too dark or uneven blue color.  Entirely black or white color where blue is desired. Too much white in wing-flights and foot-feathers.

Faults

Slightly different shade from the prescribed ground-color. Slightly too much white in over-aged and older chickens. Slightly too much white in the wing-flights.

Color and pattern female

Head and neck: warm ochereous, each feather ends with a bright-blue spangle with a diamond-shaped pure white mottle; front of the neck similar to the breast.                 

Back and saddle-cushion: similar to the breast.

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

Wings: bow, shoulder and coverts warm ochereous, each feather ends in a large, almost round, bright-blue spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

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

Secondary-flights: outer-vane warm ocher-brown to near the end of the feather, inner-vane bright-blue to almost the end of the feather and then broadening to the outer-vane, connecting to a white mottle at the end of the feather.

Breast: warm ochereous, each feather ends in a large, almost round, bright-blue spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

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

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

Serious faults

Considerably too light or too dark a shade of the warm ocher brown-yellow ground-color. Shaft stripe pattern on the neck-hackle. Too few spangles in the breast. Coarse white mottles. Completely vague blurry pattern. Too dark or uneven blue color. Entirely black or white color where blue is required. Too much white in wing-flights and foot-feathers.

Faults

Slightly different in shade from the prescribed ground color. Slightly too much white in over-aged and older chickens. Slightly too much white in the wing-flights.

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