Isabel  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 isabel yellow.
Neck: hackle warm isabel yellow; 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 isabel yellow spangle, on the sides of the feather a isabel yellow ornamental fringe; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back: dark isabel-yellow, each feather with a diamond-shaped, lavender spangle and a tiny white mottle at the feather tip.
Saddle: hackle similar to the neck-hackle, the lavender shaft stripe pattern as well as the white tip 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 lavender, each feather with a white mottle at the end; sickles and coverts lavender with a small white V-shaped mottle at the end.
Wings: bow feathers almost lavender; shoulder feathers dark isabel-yellow, sparsely with tiny white mottled tips; greater-coverts isabel-yellow each feather ending in a large, almost round, lavender spangle with a V-shaped white mottle, which forms a clear lavender and white wing-bar across the wing.

Primary-flights: inner-vane lavender, outer-vane lavender with a narrow isabel-yellow lace, the lower end white-mottled.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane warm isabel-yellow, inner-vane dull lavender laced feather-end, which is white-mottled.
Breast: isabel-yellow, each feather ends in a large, almost round, lavender spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

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

Down: light gray, fading to a light yellowish gray at the base.

Serious faults

Considerably too light or too dark a shade of isabel-yellow ground color. Lack of contrast between the isabel-yellow and the lavender. Shaft stripe pattern on the neck. Too strong development of the lavender spangle. Coarse white mottles. Completely vague blurry pattern. Too much white in wing-flights and foot-feathers.

Faults

Slightly too little contrast between the isabel-yellow and the lavender and too dark back and shoulders. Slightly too much white in over-aged and olders chickens. Slightly too much white in wing-flights and foot-feathers.

Color and pattern female

Head and neck: warm isabel-yellow, each feather ends with a lavender 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 lavender, 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 lavender spangle, similar to the other coverts.

Wings: bow, shoulder and coverts warm ocher-colored, 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 brown laced , lower end of the feathers white laced.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane isabel-yellow to near the end of the feather, inner-vane lavender 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 isabel-yellow, each feather ends in a large, almost round, lavender spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

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

Down: light gray, fading to a light yellowish gray at the base.

Serious faults

Considerably too light or too dark a shade of isabel-yellow ground color. Lack of contrast between the isabel-yellow and the lavender. Shaft stripe pattern on the neck.  Too little pattern in the breast. Coarse white mottles. Completely vague blurry pattern. Too much white in wing-flights and foot-feathers. 

Faults 

Slightly too little contrast between the isabel-yellow and the lavender .Slightly too much white in over-aged and olders chickens. Slightly too much white in wing-flights and foot-feathers.

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