Brown Red Mottled D’Uccles Project

[Egg Snatcher]

One week old!! They’re getting so big!

The muffs are ok, color is good. The feathered feet…. not so much.

The muffs are beautiful. The color, we’ll see. This one’s feathered feet are ok.

Muffs and color and feet are ok.

Muffs aren’t the best, but I like the color. The feet look pretty good.

Muffs are good, feet are good, but color is not what I’m looking for.

Mugs at iffy, feet are ok, color we'll see.

And here’s the 2 that look like Millies

 

[PippinTheChicken]

One week old!! They’re getting so big!

The muffs are ok, color is good. The feathered feet…. not so much.View attachment 3198438View attachment 3198439

The muffs are beautiful. The color, we’ll see. This one’s feathered feet are ok.
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Muffs and color and feet are ok.
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Muffs aren’t the best, but I like the color. The feet look pretty good.
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Muffs are good, feet are good, but color is not what I’m looking for.
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Mugs at iffy, feet are ok, color we'll see.
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And here’s the 2 that look like Millies
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So cute! The third one has eyebrows!

 

[AngBantamLuv]

The second one has false eyelashes... too young for that!!

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Update one the F2 eggs (F1xF1). 7 out of 13 eggs have internally piped!! Babies will be here soon!

 

[Egg Snatcher]

8 little babies so far!!
3 Millie Fleur colored
2 all white with a dot on the head
3 correctly colored
I had one chick in the cluch that died with a dot on its head, I’m existed to see what they’ll look like. I thinking mottled.

This one has the best feathered feet so far!

This little Mille Fleur one doesn’t have any feathers on it’s feet. @U_Stormcrow shared in a thread that “The gene is incompletely dominant. If only one copy is present, the feet will be feathered, yes - but less feathered than a double gened bird”. Since the grandparent is a Japanese I’d say this caused the chick to have no feathered feet.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

They're so cute!

 

[Egg Snatcher]

One little baby hatched last night! It is correctly colored, I’d don’t have a pic right now, but I’ll get one soon.

There are two eggs left and one I think may be dead. 3 eggs died, I think it’s because it’s so hot out, it gets to be 103-106 during the day, I think it might be killing them of heat stroke. And it doesn’t help that we are in a drought.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

I’ve been doing some research, I figured out why there are Mille Fleur colored chicks in the F1xF1 batch that just hatched. It’s because Mille Fleur is Gold Columbian with mottling, Mottling is recessive, so you will not see Mille Fleur in the F1s and not all the F1s will carry Mille Fleur gene. That’s why some of F2s are Mille Fleur colored. And probably some of the chicks carry the gene. I hope this make sense, sorry if it doesn’t.

 

[AngBantamLuv]

8 little babies so far!!
3 Millie Fleur colored
2 all white with a dot on the head
3 correctly colored
I had one chick in the cluch that died with a dot on its head, I’m existed to see what they’ll look like. I thinking mottled.
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This one has the best feathered feet so far!View attachment 3200740

This little Mille Fleur one doesn’t have any feathers on it’s feet. @U_Stormcrow shared in a thread that “The gene is incompletely dominant. If only one copy is present, the feet will be feathered, yes - but less feathered than a double gened bird”. Since the grandparent is a Japanese I’d say this caused the chick to have no feathered feet.
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How exciting!! You have a good batch this time too!

 

[Egg Snatcher]

How exciting!! You have a good batch this time too!

Yep! They act a lot more lively than the ones I hatched in the incubator.