Lynne,
I cannot say, with certainty, which is the best down colour for mille fleur. The only mille fleur coloured birds I'd heard about prior to being in USA were the wheaten (the yellow down) & the brown (the dark looking down).
I've only had direct experience with Orpingtons & Sussex which are both wheaten in UK; so thinking this was the way it was done, I made mine on wheaten.
I have read that the pattern takes best on the brown down. It would not have occurred to me to have made a mille fleur pattern on the chipmunk down; if I were starting again it would be the last I'd choose of the three.
That said it seems that various of the mille fleur coloured bantams, at least in USA, are made on a collection of all three down types & mixtures thereof.
I am fascinated by the photos which are being posted. I think this is not the easiest of colour patterns & sharing info to help draw conclusions from results would be helpful to all.
Twinlights.
Interesting chicks. Thanks.
Does the first chick have mottling showing? When they have as much black as that first chick in the juvenile plumage are they mossy in their adult plumage? Is the second chick a brown chick?
Which chick do you think looks the most promising at this age?
I cannot say, with certainty, which is the best down colour for mille fleur. The only mille fleur coloured birds I'd heard about prior to being in USA were the wheaten (the yellow down) & the brown (the dark looking down).
I've only had direct experience with Orpingtons & Sussex which are both wheaten in UK; so thinking this was the way it was done, I made mine on wheaten.
I have read that the pattern takes best on the brown down. It would not have occurred to me to have made a mille fleur pattern on the chipmunk down; if I were starting again it would be the last I'd choose of the three.
That said it seems that various of the mille fleur coloured bantams, at least in USA, are made on a collection of all three down types & mixtures thereof.
I am fascinated by the photos which are being posted. I think this is not the easiest of colour patterns & sharing info to help draw conclusions from results would be helpful to all.
Twinlights.
Interesting chicks. Thanks.
Does the first chick have mottling showing? When they have as much black as that first chick in the juvenile plumage are they mossy in their adult plumage? Is the second chick a brown chick?
Which chick do you think looks the most promising at this age?
