D'uccle Thread

[sawade]

So we have moved the d'uccles and yokohamas to their own brooder. To try to help our little guy I have given a more concentrated water with probiotic, vitamin and electrolytes. Boiled some eggs this morning and mushed up a few yolks. I hope this works. Praying little guy shows some improvement.

 

[paris_r]

sorry for low quality pics, but cant find good camera. here are pics of recent hatches
a blue baby


a white (or latent splash)


my Easter hatch a long earlies-two black babies

 

[frannyglass]

so here is the results of stage 1 of my attempt at cuckoo d'uccles -their mom is a barred cochin, their dad is 'a duccle'-i really dont know which rooster! there is a hen too but she , so far, is black. they both have nice vulture hocks but one looks like it will get a bit of the beard/muff the other not. the hard part will come later to see who got the cushion tail influence. i have many blacks i have hatched, so i will have lots to breed them back to, and then i will get 100% barring. one looks more cochin than the other, but they are less than 2 months old and may change a lot!




here also is a pic of an aggressively friendly brown red. i am thinking by colour pattern it is a hen, but behaviour and comb have me thinking ???

Wow, the feathering is so pretty for a teenage chick!

 

[Piperlu]

I recently got some bantam chicks from TSC and believe a few may be D'uccles. They are around 3 weeks now. Do you think some are D'uccles? None are Silkies since they all have 4 toes and no black feet.

 

[gKane14]

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I recently got some bantam chicks from TSC and believe a few may be D'uccles. They are around 3 weeks now. Do you think some are D'uccles? None are Silkies since they all have 4 toes and no black feet.

It looks to me like the ones in the first five pictures could be mille fluer d'uccles but I can't really tell about the ones in the last picture.

 

[K Epp]

some of these have the vaulted skulls (misshapen brains?), some dont, but i have a confirmed case of marek's already in a vaccinated young orpington rooster that has 2 tumors already, and 3 adults that were borderline before have had symptoms worsen (and just appear in one nearly year old silkie). by proxy i am breeding for resistance. to help protect my young ones from mareks and fowl pox (which i never had to deal with before i moved to texas!) i keep them indoors. i have a battery brooder, so the chance of injury to their heads are very small. out of 12 orpingtons i got last year as 3 weeks olds, and then vaccinated (late is better than never) i have 2 survivors, and they are healthy and laying. i cannot even remember how many duccles i lost to mareks, some the early neurologic form, none had the skin tumors (dont know about internal tumors), a few to the waisting. many were vaccinated day 1 by the hatchery and my stock was vaccinated later because of staggered hatches- i lost easily 40%, which is more than 'normal' which is why i believe they are susceptible. regional strains of the virus will come into play when you import birds/eggs from other regions where they were resistant to the local strain. i now am hatching out silkies in big numbers and that may be why i am seeing a few. i will add vitamin/electrolyte powder to their water though and see if things improve -the added salts may accommodate for some of the neurological issues.

Your Silkie most likely have Wry Neck.

 

[paris_r]

Your Silkie most likely have Wry Neck.

all of the sudden? and then it worsens under stress? and then they (if like my first one) out grow it?

 

[misfitmorgan]

I recently got some bantam chicks from TSC and believe a few may be D'uccles. They are around 3 weeks now. Do you think some are D'uccles? None are Silkies since they all have 4 toes and no black feet.

Pics 1, 4, 5, & 6 that chick is a mille fleur d'uccle

1 - only chick in the pic
4 - chick closest to the camera
5 - chick closedt to the camera
6 - both chicks on the feeder
The other chicks in the first pic to the left i dont know what they are but they dont look like a d'uccle size and color wise.
In the 6th pic in little guy on the bottom left corner there could be a d'uccle porcelain or self blue looks like it has yellow so i would say porcelain.

 

[K Epp]

all of the sudden? and then it worsens under stress? and then they (if like my first one) out grow it?

That's what is sounds like to me.

 

[Piperlu]

Pics 1, 4, 5, & 6 that chick is a mille fleur d'uccle

1 - only chick in the pic
4 - chick closest to the camera
5 - chick closedt to the camera
6 - both chicks on the feeder
The other chicks in the first pic to the left i dont know what they are but they dont look like a d'uccle size and color wise. That is correct, they are Dixie Rainbows
In the 6th pic in little guy on the bottom left corner there could be a d'uccle porcelain or self blue looks like it has yellow so i would say porcelain.

Here are some better pics of the other 2 in question