Breeding a Millie fleur?

[HonkABC]

Can I make a chicken with the Millie fleur coloring with my porcelain D'uccle and my buff Silkie rooster? Thank you.

 

[BDutch]

Can I make a chicken with the Millie fleur coloring with my porcelain D'uccle and my buff Silkie rooster? Thank you.

Try the chicken calculator :
https://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Can I make a chicken with the Millie fleur coloring with my porcelain D'uccle and my buff Silkie rooster? Thank you.

Yes. Porcelain is just mille fleur with the lavender gene, which is recessive. However, mottling (white spots) is also recessive, so you would have to cross the resulting offspring back to the d’uccle.

 

[HonkABC]

So first I breed out the lavender gene, then if I cross them back to the original d'uccle, then the some of the offspring would be porcelain, some would be Millie fleur, and some would be a different color? (I am not very good at chicken genetics.)

 

[NatJ]

Can I make a chicken with the Millie fleur coloring with my porcelain D'uccle and my buff Silkie rooster? Thank you.

Cross the two and you'll get chicks that aren't what you want. When those chicks grow up, breed one back to the porcelain d'Uccle and I think you will get a few chicks that have Mille Fleur coloring. I expect that color in about 1/4 of the chicks you hatch, or maybe less than that. The other colors will include porcelains, and some that look sort-of buff or buff columbian colored, and some that look very pale (like the buff or buff columbian colored ones, but diluted by the lavender gene.) You might get a few other colors that I'm forgetting right now.

Since your rooster is a Silkie, you will probably have chicks with crests, extra toes, and oddly shaped combs. You might see all those traits in one chick, or some in one chick and some in another. There might be some with black skin too.

If you want Mille Fleur coloring on chickens that only have d'Uccle traits, you will want to take the Mille Fleur colored chicks (from backcrossing to the Porcelain d'Uccle), and breed them back to d'Uccle for a few more generations, each time selecting for Mille Fleur coloring and the best other traits. I don't know how many generations it will take to get them correct enough to look like purebreds.

 

[HonkABC]

Cross the two and you'll get chicks that aren't what you want. When those chicks grow up, breed one back to the porcelain d'Uccle and I think you will get a few chicks that have Mille Fleur coloring. I expect that color in about 1/4 of the chicks you hatch, or maybe less than that. The other colors will include porcelains, and some that look sort-of buff or buff columbian colored, and some that look very pale (like the buff or buff columbian colored ones, but diluted by the lavender gene.) You might get a few other colors that I'm forgetting right now.

Since your rooster is a Silkie, you will probably have chicks with crests, extra toes, and oddly shaped combs. You might see all those traits in one chick, or some in one chick and some in another. There might be some with black skin too.

If you want Mille Fleur coloring on chickens that only have d'Uccle traits, you will want to take the Mille Fleur colored chicks (from backcrossing to the Porcelain d'Uccle), and breed them back to d'Uccle for a few more generations, each time selecting for Mille Fleur coloring and the best other traits. I don't know how many generations it will take to get them correct enough to look like purebreds.

I am just trying to make a chicken with the Millie Fleur coloring, I don't mind any other traits. Thanks!

 

[NatJ]

I am just trying to make a chicken with the Millie Fleur coloring, I don't mind any other traits. Thanks!

Getting just the color is faster than trying to get the other traits too.

I hope the project goes well for you!