D'uccle breeders Database

[NewHopePoultry]

I'd like to get a 2011 D'Uccle Breeders Database put together.

D'Uccle Colors:

* Black
* Black Mottled

* Blue
* Blue Buff Columbian
* Blue Columbian
* Blue Millefleur
* Blue Mottled
* Blue Silver Millefleur
* Blue Silver Quail
* Blue Quail

* Buff
* Buff Columbian (Fawn Ermine)

* Columbian (Ermine)

* Cream

* Cuckoo

* Golden Neck (Splash Millefleur)

* Lavender
* Lavender Buff Columbian
* Lavender Columbian
* Lavender Mottled
* Lavender Silver Quail
* Lavender Quail

* Millefleur

* Porcelaine

* Quail

* Silver Millefleur
* Silver Porcelaine
* Silver Quail

* Splash
* Splash Quail

* White

(help me with what I missed,lol)

 

[lilcrow]

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Oh absolutely! What would happen if you bred the black/white (grey) birds to the Columbian pattern? Maybe you could get a lighter or white head out of that.
Speaking of projects, what do you do with all the "culls"? I've got some lavenders, ALL cockerels, and I have a buff columbian hen (cochin) that I bred to one of my Partridge roos to improve type. I've got some of those chicks and I'm sure there will be a bunch I won't need. I'm terrible about selling my birds and I'm beginning to think I should stop breeding and just keep the ones I have and show them, rather then going through all this heartache with the selling part.

You wouldn't like me much when it comes to breeding. I'm really mean. If they are terribly slow to feathers (lavs defect) I put them in a hole in the ground. I don't want to pass on bad genetics, even to folks who say they want pet birds.
The other spares I take to poultry shows and sell.

Of the current 100 chicks I have, I plan to pick 2-3 cockerels that I like for type and color of each variety. I'll try to keep ALL pullets that I can this time around, unless there are some that I consider PQ due to feet. Sadly, this has been a cockerel year and I'll have a bunch to sell. Any that doesn't sell on the 7th I'll take to another show on the 21st, along with any others I decide are 'unworthy' of sticking around.


I'll be taking a BUNCH of young mille chicks to the show to sell. They didn't start laying early enough for me to start many, so I'll keep the 3-6 week olds and sell some 'newborns'.

I really do try not to get too attached to them. There will be a few I keep from curiosity or sweetness, but mostly I keep myself to strict judging by qualities. Can I show it? Can I bred it after that? If not, pop it in the sale pen.

The columbian roo I was keeping out of curiosity. I think I'll make up a mixed pen of black and white birds that are good type but color-culls and see what happens.

Oh, I don't think THAT is mean, I know exactly what you mean with the feathering problem. The first go around with my beginner birds I had a bunch of bad feather birds and I was thinking of doing the same thing. I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't cull them properly and I let them go to a gal that came over to buy a pair of Mille Fleur. She said she was just in love with them and since there were a few that weren't too bad, I let her take them all. I probably shouldn't have done that and should have gone with my initial thought. I really appreciate sharing your breeding plan for letting the spares go, that is a great idea and I don't know why I didn't think of that. Do you ship at all, I assuming in the fall?

 

[lilcrow]

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I didn't know that all of these were d'Uccle colors. We did this for cochins and had some difficulty with copy/paste as people tried to add their names. We ended up just sending a message - I guess we'll send to you - and you add the names to the colors.

 

[lilcrow]

Maybe we just posted what we breed and then it gets added to your list by you.
I breed Milli Fleur, Blue Mille Fleur, and Lavender.

 

[wegotchickens]

NewHope, do you have a 2010 Standard of Perfection?

I personally would only list the colors bred that are in the accepted standard to show. And for d'Uccles, there aren't that many colors. The reason I suggest this is because ANY d'Uccle can be shawn as a variant, but only those in the SOP can make it to champions row. So if I were looking for a reputable breeder, I'm looking for someone who breeds to show standards first and foremost.

That leaves you with:

Black

White

Self-Blue (lavender)

Golden Neck

Porcelain

Mille Fleur

Mottled


Even the Grays I want so badly to try for are not in the SOP, and are just a 'recognized color' like Brown Red and Buff Columbian.

 

[wegotchickens]

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I haven't before, but could now that I'm NPIP. But I'd prefer live delivery. I'm hoping to pre-sell some birds when I go to Indiana Oct 29-30.

That show will also be the site of a d'Uccle meeting, and the officers are being replaced. Now that we've lost Ronnie Tallent (

) its time to really think about the club and how to revitalize it and the web site.

Thats part of why I've hatched soooooo many birds this spring: I'm selling them at the 5/7 show, and passing out membership forms and info on showing d'Uccles so that folks come back to show them at the state meet in November.

 

[NateinFL]

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I haven't before, but could now that I'm NPIP. But I'd prefer live delivery. I'm hoping to pre-sell some birds when I go to Indiana Oct 29-30.

That show will also be the site of a d'Uccle meeting, and the officers are being replaced. Now that we've lost Ronnie Tallent (

) its time to really think about the club and how to revitalize it and the web site.

Thats part of why I've hatched soooooo many birds this spring: I'm selling them at the 5/7 show, and passing out membership forms and info on showing d'Uccles so that folks come back to show them at the state meet in November.

You have a lot of motivation, Lori, and I commend you for that! Please somehow pull that club together. When I first started out I was so disappointed to click on all the links and have "page not found" errors. I'm submitting a membership today so please tell me what I can do to help. Would love to promote the breed, always has and always will be my favorite!

Thanks,
Nathan

 

[wegotchickens]

Thanks Nate!
I hope my motivation pays off. I was thinking this morning that I have waaaaayyyy too many birds. With this cold snap, it would be a real shame to lose some just before the sale on Saturday. But I am out of brooder space, so the teens will have to cope in deep shavings with closed pop doors

It was 44 this morning, will be upper 30's tomorrow morning.
I think I'll see if I can go ahead and get the sale birds into rabbit cages in the garage tonight thru Saturday. Then I could move the keepers into warmer spaces, too.

I know what you mean about the website. It definitely needs some re-working. I'm not sure I know enough about web sites to be much help, but I'm about to start learning as much as I can. The club president is older than the VP, who passed away recently. I'm hoping to network with everyone at the meeting and get a feel for how involved club members are. If there are gung-ho folks who want to step up to the plate, I will help them as much as I can. But if no one seems willing to make a move, then I will. So as a club member, I may need your vote eventually

I had 3 new millie chicks in the bator this morning. They joined the last 3 'project' hatchlings, one of which is decidedly porcelain in coloring. I wish I liked porcelains, but they just seem too bland for me. I have one cockerel that started out looking isobel, but is slloooowwwwwllyy getting in some more porcelain markings. I am sorely tempted to keep him just because he's been so unusual to watch develop as a chick. And he is spot-on GORGEOUS as a d'Uccle in type.

I currently have show/ breeding pairs in:
Golden Neck
White

I have quads in:
Black
Mille Fleur

Later this year I will back in the Self-Blue (lavender) d'Uccle business as well. I have a BUNCH of lavender chicks that are looking very good, so far.

 

[NateinFL]

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You have WAY more chickens than I do it sounds like, and more breeds. I'm strictly with mille fleurs, I must perfect the color and breed before moving on to other colors. Might be a few years but it will happen. Thanks for introducing me to spiral breeding. Right now I have what I think is a near perfect hen and a near perfect rooster, I am line breeding each of them for 4 generations (only on F2 right now with 11 of the F3 eggs in the incubator from my hen line) but once that is done, I should be down to some very nice stock. Then the breedings will "spiral" and I am hoping for little champions!

 

[NateinFL]

And a cold snap in May, really? I have my other MFs besides the line breeders, I'm keeping them in a separate pen as back ups. And for new blood once I achieve my 15/16 birds.