D'uccle Thread

[mymilliefleur]

Pictures !!! Show us your winners !

X2! Congrats!

 

[chickenman5024]

Well I sold three out of eight but I will take pics Sunday and put them on I'm not home

 

[paris_r]

yeah photos and what categories they won for, how many were you competing against? you are in jr division, right? did you take any photos of the winners? i am so worried about dq'ing because of the rule about more than one white feather per area of plumage--all of my pattereneds have more than one white feather on their heads.

 

[jgoldy2]

Pictures !!!  Show us your winners !

I had a second place in the breed over the weekend, I will find a picture soon, I am proud of her

 

[Garjzla]

Good job everyone! And congrats to your chickens!

 

[chickenman5024]

To answer your question parisr I was in jr and there were about 17 D'uccles in the jr And I had hens cockerels and pullets

 

[jgoldy2]

There were probably 6 Mille Fleurs there I only have two hens

 

[paris_r]

so can you explain tome the meaning of 'not more than one solid white feather in an area'?? i figure it is about 3 months of isolation and conditioning (especially with foot feathering) to prep a bird for show. i would hate to do all of that then get dq'd. sometimes on really small feathers (top of head, wing pit, feet) i will have more than one solid white feather. and i see LOTS of people selling egg from millies and mottleds of 'show quality' and i can clearly see an abundance of white on their heads. is this less rigidly stuck to since it is hard to obtain? i just gave away 4 black mottled roosters since they had multiple solid white feathers on the feet and some splotches in the body-even though they had better pattern definition, the two i kept have much less mottling, and the two hens i have are in a non pattern breeding pen so i dont have to worry about them. i only have 1 GN hen who meets the standard, the rest will have white feathers on the neck area traced in the brown. i know pattern isnt everything, that is why i am using them to breed for other traits, but in showing it sounds like if you are daring enough to have a pattern and it is wrong your bird gets disqualified no matter how good the rest of it is.

--oh an just out of curiosity, do longer saddle feathers count as a plus in any way? i have 2 males with longer than normal and they are still not a year old, so i have no idea about their final molt.

 

[Garjzla]

I was wondering, do they do well with crested birds? I am going to breed Sultans and silkies, which both have big crests, but I don't want to have to get rid of my d'Uccles because they're being jerks to everyone.

 

[paris_r]

mine did fine with others. some of the cocks will sometimes even be dominant over larger ones and be the top breeder with the large hens as well.