Brown Red Mottled D’Uccles Project

[Egg Snatcher]

Looks like we got at boy!!!

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Unfortunately my little boy died. I let him and his friends out of their coop to around the yard a found him dead right beside the door of the coop last night. He did have slime all over his head so Idk if he tried to eat a slug and it suffocated him or it could be completely unrelated. Today I’m going to pair my last two hens with my last rooster to try to save the project.

 

[ChickenCameFirst]

Ah, man. That’s just no fun. I recently had the only serama chick to hatch out of three eggs die on its first day.

I do have a couple questions.
What’s your plan going forward?
What happened to the rooster with the weird eye? Was he the one that the fox got?
What do you think the cause is to the seemingly high number of defects in your chicks? Could it be that you need a larger gene pool?

I really hope that things start to look up for you. I really like this project and has inspired me to start my own d’uccle color project!

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Ah, man. That’s just no fun. I recently had the only serama chick to hatch out of three eggs die on its first day.

I do have a couple questions.
What’s your plan going forward?

My plan for now if to breed my last remaining black mottled hen and brown red hen to my brown red rooster. Both brown reds are split for mottled. I would then only keep black mottled, bearded, vulture hocks and feathered middle toed chicks. Using the rooster and the brown hen will put me a step back on how big the beards and middle toe feathering may be though but I can work with that. Oh and they cant have the any buff Colombian color leakage either when they grow out (which is the buff color of a Millie flour duccles)

What happened to the rooster with the weird eye? Was he the one that the fox got?

Yes he was killed by the fox

What do you think the cause is to the seemingly high number of defects in your chicks? Could it be that you need a larger gene pool?

Mine are only in in the 4th and 5th gen so I don’t believe that is the problem. Most of the defects come from incubator chicks. I can never get a steady humidity in my incubators.

I really hope that things start to look up for you. I really like this project and has inspired me to start my own d’uccle color project!

Ahh! Thanks! What color are you thinking?

 

[ChickenCameFirst]

I’m only just now getting my first d’uccles, but I really want to work on some ginger red d’uccles! I’m gonna cross them to ginger red OEGBs.

 

[ChickenCameFirst]

Maybe even some silver duckwing d’uccles. I’m getting both silver duckwing and ginger red oegbs soon.
I probably shouldn’t brag up a project while the two parent breeds are still chicks lol