D'uccle Thread - Page 8

Oh.........no mutts from him.......he needs the best he can get. There must be someone out there with a hen they can spare for him. A bird like that needs to be paired up well. It's for the improvement of the breed not for personal gain. I'll start looking for you. Where are you?
There's a young man in our local club that is really into Porcelains. I don't know if he would know anyone or not, but I'll ask. You can't just let him sit around and do nothing.
Do you have anymore pics of him? I'd really like to see if that picture just captured a particularly good angle on him, or he really IS that drop-dead gorgeous. Something with his feet in it also.
I'm just stunned by him.

Mine are just babies so far. Adorable curious babies.


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ignore the presents they decided to leave me on the metal hood by their box. *sigh*

They are precious aren't they.

Incredibly. I put them outside with their EEer sisters right after those pictures and they handled last night wonderfully. Tough and adorable little things they are and certainly already my favorite breed. I even love the way they walk with those puffy feathery feet of theirs and how when they sit it looks like they're sitting on a nest of feathers <3

I AM WORRIED   My six chicks fight a lot. They are still in the house in a large dog arate. I got them the first of february. They were about three to one week old at the time which makes them five to nine weeks old now. The lavender which is the biggest and has the largest comb and wattles is trying to cooka-doodal-do and I am not sure if any others are but they are all developing combs except the smallest porcelain. Could I have five cockrels ? I am so worried. One or two is OK but not more, please tell me if the hens do have combs at this age !

In reviewing the threat, I can't help but wonder if there might be too much of a spread in their ages? Sometimes when they are raised together it can be OK, but other time it is not. In the case of many bantams, they can get pretty scrappy, particularly certainly lines or strains. I've had some birds that are very, very docile and others that were little monsters. In my book the difference is like night and day. I'd separate the smaller ones from the older ones and try different groups to see if that makes a difference. It could also be there is 1 in there that is causing all the trouble. Experiment.......
It won't get any better if left alone, so you might as well start switching and trying to find a combination that works.

I do appreciate you answer and will see if I can seperate them into groups. I do know that if I take one out to cuddle with it it makes a bee flight back to the others. Zip Zip  Zip  !        They  all want to be part of the flock.

But how do you differentiate the sexes at this point ? The lavender roo is the same size as one porcelain bird but the comb is not large yet but all of the birds are developing combs except the smallest porcelain.

Do lavenders develop faster than the porcelain ? Do all of chicks have comb development at this age.  Am I letting these little birds drive me nutsy ?

Maybe just a little but I can relate, I do the same thing.
No I don't think that lavender develops quicker than the rest, if anything they may be a little behind the rest. If you've got chicks with combs at this early stage, be prepared for that many roos. I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but it doesn't sound good regarding the number of roos to hens.
When you take chicks out, try taking two at a time, that way they have someone with them rather than feeling so vulnerable. Running back to the others is just a matter of familiarity.

So how exactly do you pronounce d'uccle.

I'm inclined to say Duh Uncle, but I'm sure that's not right.  :-)

I pronounce it due-clay....