Lemon 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: lemon yellow.
Neck: hackle warm lemon 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 bright blue spangle, on the sides of the feather a lemon yellow ornamental fringe; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back: lemon yellow, 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 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 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 lemon yellow, sparsely with tiny white mottled tips; greater-coverts lemon yellow each feather ending in a large, almost round, bright blue spangle with a V-shaped white mottle, which forms a clear bright blue and white wing-bar across the wing.

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

Secondary-flights: outer-vane lemon yellow, inner-vane blue laced feather-end, which is white-mottled.
Breast: lemon yellow, 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 to a grayish pale yellow at the base.

Serious faults

Pale or uneven ground-color. Ground-color too warm, resembling ochre. Shaft stripe pattern in te neck-hackle. Too strong development of the bright blue spangle pattern in the breast. Coarse white mottles. Completely vague blurry pattern. Too much white in the wing-flights and foot-feathers. Too dark or uneven blue color, black or white in the parts that require bright blue.

Faults

Slightly too pale or somewhat uneven ground color. Slightly too warm and therefore not distinct from ochre. 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 lemon yellow, 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 bright 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 lemon yellow, 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 lemon yellow , lower end of the feathers white laced.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane lemon yellow 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: lemon yellow, each feather ends in a large, almost round, bright blue spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

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

Down: blue-grey, to a grayish pale yellow at the base.

Serious faults

Pale or uneven ground-color. Ground-color too warm, resembling ochre. Shaft stripe pattern in te neck-hackle. Too strong development of the bright blue spangle pattern in the breast. Coarse white mottles. Completely vague blurry pattern. Too much white in the wing-flights and foot-feathers. Too dark or uneven blue color, black or white in the parts that require bright blue.

Faults

Slightly too pale or somewhat uneven ground color. Slightly too warm and therefore not distinct from ochre. Slightly too much white in over-aged and older chickens. Slightly too much white in the wing-flights.

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