Belgian Bearded Mille Fleur d'Uccles? PICS pg 7

[Buck Creek Chickens]

about color, your bird with the white is not a good show bird, but your other bird is good, nice pattern, the black and white are evenly spread, and the size ans shape of the black and white are good. nice dark red too. as the get older (molt) the red will get lighter and the spots a little larger. if you wish to use the whiter hen in a breeding program, her only fault is the white get a roo the is low on the white. but when you breed with a fault it is sometime vary hard to get that fault out.

sorry abut last night

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Okay, I cannot get the link to copy properly. When the browser comes up and says it cannot find the page, you need to add the apostrophe in D'Uccle. For some reason it leaves that out and comes up as DUccle.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote:
Non-bearded is a booted bantam; bearded is a d'uccle. Yes, crossbreeding them will produce partially bearded birds as the gene is incompletely dominant. Note that d'uccles were created by crossing booted bantams with d'anvers.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote:
The birds TYPE is more important than its plumage colouring. Type makes the breed. Not to say that plumage is unimportant, or that a bird with slightly poorer type but stunning plumage would not place above one with a bit better type but poor plumage.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote:
The standard says:

WATTLES: Rudimentary only, preferably none.
...
DEFECTS
Large wattles...

There is nothing that specifies a specific size (such as a BB).​

 

[NateinFL]

Nope you're right it doesnt say a specific size but i think it is safe to think that anything larger than a bb (as in b.b. gun), particularly on a young chick, it too much. So I'm just saying that some of the pictures that have been posted on here of tall roosters with wattles probably arent pure.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote:
Often when you pluck a feather with incorrect colouring its replacement will grow in correctly coloured. So I personally would not consider that cheating; however if you pull out your little paint pots of black white and tan to paint the colours on...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote:
Actually TYPE is the most important. If you have a perfectly coloured bird with perfectly absent wattles he will still place poorly if his body is built like a leghorn or cochin or .... anything other than like a d'uccle.

BIG wattles would be an issue as would poor colouring. As to which would deduct more points...it depends on how the judge perceives them--which one is more of a defect in the particular bird.

 

[NateinFL]

As with any pure bred chicken, I think it is sometimes easy for people to lose sight of what the ORIGINGAL breed standard is. Too many inferior birds are allowed to breed and the original standard is lost easily and VERY hard to get back once lost. If you look at some of the illustrations of mille fleur d'uccles, they are beautiful and I have yet to see one in real life that comes close to the pictures. I think some people are confused as to what a real d'uccle should look like.

 

[wegotchickens]

My prize-winning roo. His eye on this side is funky due to beating up a dog that threatened his girls. He still won 1st place and BV over other roos in shows the past 2 years. He has very small wattles, and with his full beard & muff you can barely see them at all. I think that's what the standard is looking for. Since his molt he is gorgeous, and I thought he was beautiful before that!

One of my hens and a pullet. My hens looked just like the pullet when they were her age. They've molted once. The hens won 1st places and BV the past 2 years, and the pullet won in 2 shows so far this year.

A d'Uccle pullet with a lot of white is strictly pet quality. She'll be too white after molting and be disqualified.