D'uccle Thread

[muscovy94]

Hey everyone I thought I would make this thread for everyone to talk about and post pics of their d'uccle! I think they are a wonderful and beautiful breed. Any color welcome. POST AWAY!!!!!

 

[Schultz]

Beautiful birds everyone.
We love our Mille's!
Here is Wheatie our house Mille. She was severely picked on by the others and we are now keeping her in the house. She is the sweetest thing EVER! Not to mention spoiled!

 

[Cindysrescue]

My silkies wanted babies, I wanted d'uccles, so we worked together and look at these cuties who hatched yesterday! We are waiting on 6 more eggs and today is day 21. The littlest porcelain chick came from an egg with a completely detached air cell. I almost just threw the egg away because I read there was little to no chance of it hatching under a broody hen. But here it is! Just a perfect little chick!

 

[Chicken Chat]

Had to show off my boy, he's 22 weeks old and starting to feather up nicely.

 

[HippyGardener]

On Saturday I picked up a whole brooder full - 20 Mille Fleur/Porcelain d'Uccle "split tos" that were hatched on 4/2 and 4/3. They were hatched from show stock. They're the friendliest chicks I've brooded so far, aside from my red frizzled bantam cochin cock "Billy the Kid". They hop out of the brooder like pop corn to sit on me!

Can't wait to see how they develop! The guy I got them from is going to grow out a Mille Fleur and a Porcelain cockerel for me so I can bring them back to their seperate colors.

 

[HippyGardener]

My new breeding groups! <3 I've got a Mille Fleur pair and a trio of Porcelains. I don't yet have a good pic of the Porcelain cock.

These are the parent birds to the 20 split in the brooder that I posted a few comments up. The porcelain hens have slightly large combs, but the MF hen's is nice & small. And the Mille Fleurs don't have good feathering on the middle toes as the Porcelains do. I'm hoping the splits bred back to the Porc and to the MF's separately will fix both of those. Time will tell.

 

[Cyprus]

Here is my Mille Fleur Cockerel and Hen

 

[teddiliza]

Yes, I totally LOVE my Porcelain d'uccles. It was pure fluke when I impulsively bought them from the feed store and found out what breed they were and how adorable and sweet. They are from Estes Hatchery mixed bantams. This is definitely the breed I'm sticking with. I bought some hatching eggs from ugly duckly and am getting some really pretty coloring from them. I bought a bunch from Ideal, but I'm not as impressed with their smaller beards and skimpy middle toe feathering. They are not as calm as ugly duckly or Estes's d'uccles. So, I probably will be selling all but the 5 straight run Millies and 5 porcelain pullets. I'll have about 6 cockerels and 3 pullets with that I'll be posting for sale later. I thought I'd wait till they were a few more weeks old.

I think in the spring, I'll visit the feed store and see if I can get a few more Estes d'uccles, as pretty as they are turning out to be. This is the breed I'm going to promote as the perfect chicken for children! I'm thankful that I don't have to chase this breed all over the yard if I want to pick them up and pet them, they are fairly easy to catch. They are really good flyers, and can fly 7 feet up in the air. I had to put welded wire fencing on top of my chain link to make it high enough to keep them out of the neighbors yard. I think next spring I might try ordering some porcelain d'uccle hatching eggs from my pet chicken and see how they turn out, plus a few more mille pullets. The breeders I've seen online, just aren't selling much these days unless you want to pay $10 a chick!

My first porcelain pullet finally started laying at 7 months old! Can't wait to start hatching my own cuties, but I think I'll wait till spring, since I already have 2 dozen in the garage. Here's mine from Adults to chicks!

 

[chickenlover54]

Wheatie looks spoiled on her rug! LOL

all chickens should be spoiled

 

[triplejfarm2]

so in this picture you can see the "u" shape that the judges want... and theVERY full and even tail shaped in a V and the color with the white on each tip in just about the same amount on the primary feathers make a stair step down the back of her wing.. and the first line of covert white tips make a uniform line accross her wing... you can see where the 2nd and third line and 4th line start to line up but not 100%,,,, she has a good beard, but she could havea a better head... other than that I cant fault her much in "body type"....


this hen has really nice body type...cant tell from the picture... but they were champion and reserve champion Duccle at the Ohio National show in November.... but you can see that her tail fans out to a nice V... and its all even, you can see the primary feathers form a nice stair step... and the last row of wing coverts make a line, but you cant see any more rows of white up from that... there should be 2 to 3 more "lines" but she wasnt fully finished moulting so they wont line up until they are "perfect"...but some NEVER get it... she will never be as good as the first hen...in color... but as a breeder told us... "you have to build the barn before you can paint it"... a millie shoudl look short and stocky thick neck, not rangey looking... they shoudl look "squatty"... and this hen does that...she looks like a little linebacker... haha