D'uccle Thread

[M To The Maxx]

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Almost 2 months old.

 

[M To The Maxx]

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Almost 2 months old.

 

[Barred Rocks forever]

what colors are recodnized by apa i have black mottled duccles right now

 

[elmo]

I got five d'Uccle hatching eggs and put them under one of my Serama/OEGB broody hens. She hatched them all out, and here they are:

We named the chicks all "speedy" names: Scooter, Flash, Turbo, Lightning, and Zippy, because these chicks are fast...even compared to the other Serama/OEGB chicks that we have.

They are adorable, with their long legs and the feathering that makes them look like they are wearing bell bottomed pants! We have one half d"Uccle hen who is our favorite, which is why we wanted to raise some more d'Uccles.

 

[wegotchickens]

elmo, in a few weeks the chicks will be as big as thei 'mom' LOL

All d'Uccles chicks are cute!

 

[Gypsylion]

Well... out of 14 black mottled and 9 self blue d'Uccle eggs, one little SB guy made it and he's adorable.

Here he (it?) is next to its d'Uccle/Ameraucana cross day-older sister:

Here's a pic of the gold one's mom, "Goldie"

 

[elmo]

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Yes! You should see how she looks trying to cover all five of them even now, spread out like a pancake! One morning I noticed it looked like she had five heads on her back. It was all of the chicks snuggling in her wing pits and poking up their heads to have a look around.

She's my smallest hen, too. She was just about a pound when she started brooding, and she lost 20 percent of her body weight while setting (although she's gaining it back fast now). I intended for my largest hen to incubate the d'Uccle eggs, but she went broody a week before those eggs became available, while this little hen went broody at just the right time.

 

[elmo]

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Interesting! I understand that the muff and foot feathering is a dominant gene. But it looks like the hybrid chick has less foot feathering than the pure one. That's what happened with my hybrid hen: she only has one feather on each leg.

Two of the chicks hatched out by my other hen are offspring of this hybrid hen, and they also have single feathers on their feet. I'm so glad, because we wanted more d'Uccles, even part d'Uccles.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Yes! You should see how she looks trying to cover all five of them even now, spread out like a pancake! One morning I noticed it looked like she had five heads on her back. It was all of the chicks snuggling in her wing pits and poking up their heads to have a look around.

She's my smallest hen, too. She was just about a pound when she started brooding, and she lost 20 percent of her body weight while setting (although she's gaining it back fast now). I intended for my largest hen to incubate the d'Uccle eggs, but she went broody a week before those eggs became available, while this little hen went broody at just the right time.

I have been known to swap eggs from under a hen so that she's sitting on the eggs I want her to be sitting on. Some hens, the ones that eat and drink each day when setting, are better for this. They don't care to sit 4 weeks as long as there are chicks in the end.
I have one hen that I have to make take a break. She my buff mottled (aka GN) hen, and she's skin & bone. She's one I would never switch eggs on! Luckily her 3 weeks are almost up with this batch.

I have 6 d'Uccle hens setting nests, one raising chicks, and one wondering, "Where'd everybody go??" I suspect she'll get bitten by the broody bug pretty soon....

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

We have lots of D'Uccle chicks some that are 12 weeks, some 8 weeks, some 2 weeks and some 5 days old and two silkie broodies each with about 7 more under them. although we know that at least two of our SilkieXD'Uccle eggs are under them. We have two chicks from that barnyard crossing as at the time our 3 silkie hens were kept with the 4 D'Uccle hens who have 1 roo with them. The chick in the pictures below is now got black feathers and on the hackle feathers has got silver lacing. the second one is totally different both in color and pattern. Brown and barred still has the Walnut come and crest and good leg feathering..

SIlkie are nonsense, blue, red.

Here is a picture of the first cross and a normal millefluer

and alone