D'Uccle Color Questions

[Doug the Chicken Man]

Does anyone know what a Splash Millefleur D'Uccle looks like. I will try to get pictures of all the offspring.

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

Does anyone have a picture of a Splach Mille Fleur would look like?

 

[wegotchickens]

You might check the d'Uccle page on Feathersite.
I can't visualize a splash mille fleur. Maybe it would look more like a mottled???? I just don't know

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

I looked there and it did not show.
The reason I am asking is that when we hatched the blue Mille Fluer eggs we go some that are the normal Vermillion base coulor but no Black or Blue color V Bar before the Splash of White. Knowing the Caluclator indicated we would get 25 % Splash. I was wondering if they were the splash.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Many d'Uccle chicks do not get their true colors until they are practically adults, so I wouldn't try to lable them just yet if they're young.

In fact, even if these are older birds, then wait until they've molted at least once. The reason heavily white birds are non SQ as juveniles is because after a molt or 2 they'll be totally white. So I wouldn't assume the blue is not there at all. Like the white spots on my millie roos tail, it may take until the first molt for true colors to show up.

If you're experimenting with color crosses then you have to be patient. What you see now is subject to change. Also, sunlight can affect the colors as well. My millie hens had much deeper brown feathers after their molt, but free-ranging has them looking much paler already.

Feathersite has photos of mostly SQ d'Uccles. What you describe sounds almost like a mottled red instead of blue or black...

 

[wegotchickens]

Another issue is the parenting of the adult birds. Are you sure of the original stock?
The one looks more mille than blue mille. If the roo is more mille than blue mille, your calculator may be way off.

 

[Stina]

Are these hatchery birds? I am waiting to recieve some blue mille fluer d'uccles from nature's and they state on their website (under the d'uccles) that all "blue" orders will come with 25% black, 50% blue, and 25% splash.......If your birds are blues, then they aren't lavendar and can't produce porcelain. If you crossed a lavendar bird to the blues, you'd get blues and blacks split to lavendar (since lavendar is a recessive gene and blue is "dominant"). That's disregarding the effects of mille fluer. If you're breeding mille to mille you should have all milles, so none of those babies will look "black" even if that's their color base...they'll be a black based mille fluer. If the rooster is indeed blue, then bred to a self blue hen you'd get blacks, blues and splashes....you may have just gotten lucky with a lack of black chicks! With no black babies I highly doubt the self blue hen is lavendar. I would think the light colored chicks will probably turn out to be splashes

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

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As stated here this is the posibilities

We have 2 Hens that were suppose to be Blue Mille Fluer and turned out Black Mille Fluer. One is in the post 1 on page 1.
We have one hen and one Roo that are Blue Mille Fluer as in the pictures on Post 1.

Note all the pictures are last fall and they have gone through thier first molt now and are a bit better looking as they are now 1 year old.

We also have 3 Lavender roos and one lavender Hen.
The lavender roos are kept in a different pen as they are not as nice to the hens as the Blue Mille Fluer boy. So all the Hens are in with the Blue Mille Boy.
For the last hatch we put the Lavender roo in the runn with the Hens But I suspect He did not mate with the Lavender hen as all the chicks are Mille Fleur.

The lavender roos are kept in a different pen as they are not as nice to the hens as the Blue Mille Fluer boy.

The chicken calculator is from Henk69's Website and it is the only one I know of.

I am still trying to get time to take some newer pictures.