Black D'uccle ? What?

[Doug the Chicken Man]

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black patterned gold millefluer is a normal black millefluer. it is just the way the calculator indicates things.
Blue Paterned Gold Millefluer is a blue millefluer.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Unless one of your cocks is split to lav, you will not get any lavender chicks.

 

[shay20]

Ok here is a pic of that black milli fluer chick, he is a frizzle which means the dad is the red frizzle

and this pic is now from yesterday, i love teh gold markings.

And a milli fluer, dad is the red frizzle and mom is a milli fluer

 

[ESofVA]

I have alsostarted on a project for frizzle d'Uccles. My mille fleur d'Uccle roo crossed with my white frizzle bantam Cochin. I got some black chicks as well but as they matured some had some gold around their necks and some white flecks on their breasts. I had thought I would keep them until this fella came along:




Now I can't wait until next year! In the meantime, I am trying to decide which color of d'Uccle would be best to cross it back to for the best.

 

[ESofVA]

This is one of the black ones I didn't keep after I saw what it would most likely turn out to be. The second pic is of this older sibling, which was the same color as the chick in 1st pic below, shows more than I can describe. It's feathers turned out to be straight as I expected some to be:

 

[ESofVA]

Now for a hen that I purchased as a brown red d'Uccle from a hatchery:



She is totally black with any other color showing in these pictures actually just from my camera or from soil.
She has a beautiful blue and greenish blue sheen.
I have never found mention of black d'Uccles in the US. Has anyone else??? I would say this hen is black!

 

[ESofVA]

How far have you gotten with your project and do you have any recent pics?

 

[shay20]

Your black hen is beautiful, your chicks are to, unfortanatly, i had a few go missing and then something got into my deuccle pen, but i did start my project back up this winter so far no eggs lol, i have had a few peaple ask me for them.

 

[shay20]

Started up my project again this year