Calling ALL!!! Mille Fleur D'uccle Expert's!!! Lend me you knowledge!!

[pbjmaker]

Here are the roo's I ended up rehoming:

Itty Bitty (carried a huge attitude and did fertilize the big girls on more than one occasion):

Rogue (he used to crow at the backdoor until someone let him in the house):

And my Porcelain Rudy (who now lives in Nebraska):

 

[k2chickens]

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thank you for the pictures. No...i had plans to breed a mille roo to another bantam...SOOOO excited about it...but im bummed that i have to wait for like another 6 to 7 month's to do so

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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thank you for the pictures. No...i had plans to breed a mille roo to another bantam...SOOOO excited about it...but im bummed that i have to wait for like another 6 to 7 month's to do so

I know!! It is SO hard to wait!!!!!!

 

[k2chickens]

Love my chickies!! :

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thank you for the pictures. No...i had plans to breed a mille roo to another bantam...SOOOO excited about it...but im bummed that i have to wait for like another 6 to 7 month's to do so

I know!! It is SO hard to wait!!!!!!​

yea...i wonder just exactly HOW soon i can try and breed??? I mean...what if one of my hen's "develop's" more rapidly than the other's do? And i have a young cockeral with good markings and tall comb at say 4 or 5 month's old???

Ahhhh!!!! It's killing me lol!!! i dream of the day i get the cross i want to lay eggs and candel them a week later in hopes of seeing movement.

 

[millebantam]

If you have the room, start breeding them early, and keep the offspring that show the most promise. It has been my experience, that you can select for general type, beards, foot feathering, and somewhat for color, at an early age. After a while you get a pretty good handle on what good traits your line produces by looking out for subtle signs in the young offspring that you saw in other offspring from previous hatches. Hope that makes some sort of sense. lol.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Yeah, why not just give it a try, knowing that you'll get better quality later on...who knows, you might get good ones early!! Yay for fuzzy butt millies!!!

 

[k2chickens]

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yes that makes some since to me. But how early is early tho??? I have a few little ones upstairs that have HUGE featherd feet...but the rest just have normal feathers on their feet. So should i stick to my original breeding hen's when the young grow up?? Or would it be ok to take the ones who grow up "that i keep because of good traits" and breed them back to their daddy? I know inbreeding is "ok" with chickens but it just doesn't sit well with me. I just think that the next generation that hatches will just be "watered down" and good traits will be few and far between in the offspring.

 

[k2chickens]

look for a picture post by me in the "raising baby chicks" section....im going to show the color diff. in "what i think" are male's and females.

Color sexing baby MFD's???? why not!!!

 

[Krys109uk]

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on sexing mille fleurs.

 

[k2chickens]

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