Silver 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: silvery-white.
Neck: hackle silvery-white; 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 golden-yellow ornamental fringe; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back: silvery-white, 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 silvery white; greater-coverts silvery white 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 white lace, the lower end white-mottled.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane silvery white, inner-vane dull black laced feather-end, which is white-mottled.
Breast: silvery-white, 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: grey.

Serious faults

Too strong development of the black spangles on the breast. Coarse or too few white mottles. Completely vague blurry pattern. Too much white in the foot-feathers.

Faults

 Shaft stripe pattern on the neck-hackle. Slightly too much white in over-aged and older chickens.

Color and pattern female

Head and neck: silvery-white, 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 silvery-white, 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 silvery white laced, lower end of the feathers white laced.

Secondary-flights: outer-vane silvery-white 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: silvery-white, 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: grey.

Serious faults

Too few spangles on the breast. Coarse or too few white mottles. Completely vague blurry pattern. Too much white in the foot-feathers.

Faults

Shaft stripe pattern on the neck-hackle. Slightly too much white in over-aged and older chickens.

Feather details from: http://www.kippenencyclopedie.nl

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