Beautiful bantams: D’Uccle discussion

[GldnValleyHens]

Anyone else as huge a fan of D’Uccles as I am?? Love to hear your stories and pics of your favorite D’Uccle babies! They are far my favorite bantams, for they are calm, sociable, gorgeous, and very hardy in my cold prairie climate.
I currently have three, Edna Mae is my little diva, a Mille Fleur, and her mate, a Porcelain rooster named Napoleon. Their beautiful and cocky son Edmond lives with the ducks, as he and his jerk of a father don’t get along well at all. I want to transition him back to the chicken coop, but he grew up with the ducks and they all are very close.
Also in my experience D’Uccles are easier to hatch than other bantams, and my hatch ( in a crappy incubator too) was very successful. Edmond and his sister grew and hatched out full of life! Edmond had problems early on with two splayed legs, and I feared he wouldn’t make it, but D’Uccle resilience won out, and today he is in perfect condition!

 

[mymilliefleur]

I love my d'Uccles! I currently have 15, plus some young ones. Here are some (old) photos of 3 of my hens. From top to bottom they are Spots, Miss Stacy, and Buttercup.

 

[GldnValleyHens]

Napoleon Dynamite Bonaparte

Edna Mae





Share some pics of your birds!!!!

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

My mottled serama/mille fleur d'uccle mixes-

Popcorn, pullet

Cheeto, cockerel

Peanut, cockerel

 

[mymilliefleur]

Thank you for the input that Portia is a hen - I got confirmation yesterday when i caught her in the nesting box laying!! Her large comb threw me off. But she’s definitely a hen!

Awesome! Congrats to miss Portia for laying her first egg!

 

[Stick Chicken]

I currently own eight d'uccles: 2 porcelain hens, 1 porcelain cockerel, 3 mille fleur pullets, 1 mille fleur cockerel, and 1 mille fleur roosters. The first time I hatched any was two years ago, and only six hatched with many complications. My rooster is the one I chose to keep from two survivors. Last year, we had better luck and hatched a dozen d'uccles from which we kept three pullets. I don't have many pictures of them, but here's one of my rooster.

 

[Cyprus]

Here is a pic of my blue ribbon late male for anyone needing a comparison pic.

 

[cleoandtheflock]

He is beautiful
This is Millie and Betty
Millie is the white one she is a goldneck
She isn’t really show quality but we showed her once
And Betty she once got 3 best in show, best of class, best variety and best breed

 

[jsr5]

Yay got my Bantams picked up today so my Mille flur's will not be alone any more They will have ten or twelve ( they put in extras just not sure of which breeds.) half and half mille flur and porcelin's. Hoping as we all usually do for a high percentage of pullet to cockerel time will tell. Here they are along with 15 plus silkie and chochins I also got.

 

[Cyprus]

I've got 19-20 viable embryos incubating right now. Some are MF, most are Porcelain. I'm collecting MF eggs for the second set.