Lemon 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 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 green-glossy black 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, green-glossy black spangle and a tiny white mottle at the feather tip.
Saddle: hackle similar to the neck-hackle, the green-glossy black 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 black, each feather with a white mottle at the end; sickles and coverts green-glossy black with a small white V-shaped mottle at the end.
Wings: bow feathers almost black; shoulder feathers lemon yellow, sparsely with tiny white mottled tips; greater-coverts lemon yellow each feather ending in a large, almost round, glossy green black spangle with a V-shaped white mottle, which forms a clear black and white wing-bar across the wing.

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

Secondary-flights: outer-vane lemon yellow, inner-vane dull black laced feather-end, which is white-mottled.
Breast: lemon yellow, each feather ends in a large, almost round, green-glossy black 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

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

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: lemon yellow, 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 and saddle-cushion: similar to the breast.

Tail: steering- feathers dull black, 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 black spangle, similar to the other coverts.

Wings: bow, shoulder and coverts lemon yellow, each feather ends in a large, almost round, green-glossy black spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

Primary-flights: inne-vane black, 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 dull black 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, green-glossy black spangle with a V-shaped white mottle.

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

Down: blue-grey, changing to greyish buff 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 black spangle pattern in the breast. Coarse white mottles. Completely vague blurry pattern. Too much white in the wing-flights and foot-feathers.

Faults

Slightly too pale or 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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