Ah okay that must explain why I have so many feathers in and around my run lol. I don't have any adults old enough to do the adult molt so I was wondering about that.
Alright, I have a dumb question. One of my pullets is starting to get the white in her Mille Fleur pattern. It doesn't seem that these are new feathers, so how does the white "appear"?
My d'Uccle chicks are one month old as of yesterday. Is the amount of black an indicator of how heavy and even the mille fleur pattern will be? The color on the guys is also quite light and golden (some more than others). I have a lot of variation so far in the heaviness of leg and hock...
I just hatched seven little d'Uccles from 12 shipped eggs (six yesterday and the last straggler I had to help out this morning as the humidity dropped overnight and it got stuck). The roo was a blue MF and the hens MF and buff. It looks like I have 2 or 3 buff, 3 MF, and one looks like it could...
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I used 2x3 or 2x4 for all of my birds (chickens, guineas, and turkeys), wide end up. Even roosting in trees, they would choose a very broad branch that keeps their feet relatively flat and lets them balance properly rather than a tiny one that their toes would wrap around like a canary...