Ochre millefleur / Millefleur / e^b

Ochre-yellow 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: medium ochre-brown.
Neck: hackle ochreous; each feather at the tip with a tiny diamond-shaped white spangle, on the sides of the feather a golden-yellow ornamental fringe; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back: dark, ocher-brown, each feather with a diamond-shaped white spangle.
Saddle: hackle similar to the neck-hackle ,with a short white shaft stripe pattern, this is less noticeable than in the neck-hackle, because the feathers end much thinner than those of the neck-hackle.

Tail: steering-feathers, sickles and coverts white.
Wings: bow feathers almost black; shoulder feathers ochreous, sparsely with tiny white spangles; greater-coverts ochreous, feathers ending in a white spangle, which forms a clear white wing-bar across the wing.

Primary-flights: inner-vane white, outer-vane white with a narrow ochreous lace, the lower end with a white spangle.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane mid ochreous-brown, inner-vane white laced extending to the feather tip.
Breast: mid-ochreous brown, each feather ends with a white spangle.

Belly and thighs: approximately similar to the breast.
Down: light yellowish to white.

Serious faults

Coarse and irregular white spangles. Vague blurry pattern. Too much white in the breast and too few spangles on the neck- and saddle- hackle. Too light or uneven ground-color.

Faults

Slightly coarse or somewhat slightly irregular spangle. Uneven ground-color. Black splashes in the white spangles.

Color and pattern female

Head and neck: medium ochre brown, each feather ends with a white spangle; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back and saddle-cushion: similar to the breast.

Tail: steering- feathers white; 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 white spangle, similar to the other coverts.

Wings: bow, shoulder and coverts warm ochreous, each feather ends with a white spangle.

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

Secondary-flights: outer vane ochreous-brown to near the end of the feather, inner vane white to almost the end of the feather and then broadening to the outer vane, connecting to a white feather-end.

Breast: warm ochreous, each feather ends with a white spangle.

Belly, thighs and rear-end: similar to the breast.

Down: light yellowish to white.

Serious faults male and female

Coarse and irregular white spangles. Vague blurry pattern. Too much white in the breast and too few spangles. Too light or uneven ground-color.

Faults male and female

Somewhat coarse or slightly irregular spangles. Uneven ground-color. Black splashes in the white spangles.