Mille Fleur dUccle
Comb, Face, Wattles & Ear Lobes: Bright Red
Beak: Horn with slight gray shading.
Eyes: Dark Brown.
Beard & Muffs: same as breast
Boots: Black, edged and tipped with white.
Shanks and Toes: Slaty Blue; plumage, black tipped with white, the wide web being edged
with golden buff.
Plumage: Color of Male:
Head: Brilliant light orange vermillion, each feather tipped with a small white spangle,
a narrow V-shaped bar of
black dividing the spangle from the remainder of the feather. Champion 2000 National
Neck: Brilliant light orange vermillion, with a metallic sheen, each feather having a
lustrous greenish black stripe extending
lengthwise through lower part of feather, terminating near end of feather, tipped
with a diamond-shaped pure white spangle, Front of neck- same as breast.
Back: Brilliant light orange vermillion, each feather having a lustrous greenish black
stripe extending lengthwise through lower part of feather terminating near end of
feather, tipped with a diamond-shaped pure white spangle, the black strip broadening
out to edge of feather where it meets with white spangle.
Saddle: Same as Hackle.
Tail: Main Tail- Black- each feather tipped with white.
Sickles, Lesser Sickles & Coverts- lustrous greenish black, each feather tipped
with a V-shaped pure white spangle.
Wings: Shoulder & Fronts- Same as breast.
Bow- rich light orange vermillion, each feather tipped with a pure white spangle.
Coverts- deep bay, each feather having a V-shaped pure white spangle at end of
feather, a V-shaped black bar dividing white spangle from balance of feather, the
V-shaped bar and spangle being larger and more pronounced that other spangling,
the whole forming two distinct bars across wing . Primaries- inner webs, black;
outer webs black. slightly edged with bay, lower portion of feather edged with
white. Secondaries- outer webs bay; inner webs dull black, extending into outer
webs near end of feather; end of feather tipped with white.
Breast Golden bay, each feather tipped with a V-shaped white spangle, a V-shaped bar
of black dividing white from remainder of feather.
Body & Stern: Body- same as breast. Stern- fluff, slaty buff tipped with white.
Lower Thighs: Same as Breast
Undercolor: Slate, shading to slaty buff at base, in all sections.
Color of Female:
Head: Rich golden buff, each feather marked with a V-shaped bar of black near end of
feather, end of feather tipped with a V-shaped pure white spangle.
Neck Hackle Rich golden buff, each feather marked with a V-shaped bar of black
near end of feather, end of feather tipped with a diamond-shaped pure white
spangle. Front of Neck- same as breast.
Back & Cushion: Rich golden buff, each feather marked with a V-shaped bar of black near
end of feather, end of feather tipped with a V-shaped pure white spangle.
Tail: Main Tail dull black, tipped with pure white, top two feathers with some buff on
upper web. Coverts same as back.
Wings: Shoulders, Fronts & bows same as back.
Coverts same as back except that the V shaped spangled are larger and more
pronounced. the whole forming two distinct bars across wings. Primaries- inner
webs black; outer webs black, edged with bay. Secondaries outer webs golden
buff extending nearly to end of feather: inner webs dull black, extending nearly
to end of feather and broadening out into outer webs nearly to end of feather,
where it joins spangle at tip, the whole forming a spangled effect at the end of the
Secondaries, when wing is folded and held in its natural position.
Breast: Same as Back
Body & Stern: Body same as breast, Stern fluff, slaty buff, tipped with white.
Lower thighs: Same as Breast
Undercolor Medium Slate, shading to pale salmon at base, in all sections.
Disqualifications:
Two or more solid white feathers in any section of plumage.