D'uccle Thread

[ValleyofRoses]

I have one Porcelain in my mixed flock (she's the only little one, poor thing) who I adopted...She's always been more wild than the others, flying and getting into trees and such. A few weeks ago we had a wind storm that knocked down the coop fence and she disappeared...Only to come back a week later like nothing had happened! We live right on the edge of a large forest reserve, crawling with coyotes, so it was very surprising that such a little chicken could make it. Yesterday she got out again somehow and is missing, but maybe she's just so wild bird like that she'll show up again? I sure hope so, she's really the most beautiful chicken I've ever seen. Oh, and her name is Pickles. I've always had some trouble with her, since she's the only little on and is picked on a lot, but she was just starting to FINALLY lay eggs! If she comes back, do you think it would be better for her to be in a flock with other small breeds? For future reference, do small breeds do better with other small breeds?

 

[Cetawin]

I am not sure about moving her to another flock but you definitely need to find a way to keep her confined safely. As to putting bantams and LF together, it would not work here for me but I have seen others do it. I guess it depends on your birds and setup, if the birds were raised together, personalities and so forth.

My LF girls would whip up on a bantam running loose so I do not even try it.






Sad news...My procelain boy passed away early this morning...he was very pale in the face and his comb was very dark....he did not crow oce yesterday and I was keeping an eye on him until I went to bed at 4am....but he was gone at 9am. I am assuming it is circulatory/heart related because he was not ill, no parasites and so forth. RIP Spike

He loved reading BYC with me

This weekend I am picking up a Mille roo named ZoomZoom from thechickonthehill After quarantine he will go in with my porcelain girls. Here is ZoomZoom

 

[wegotchickens]

Wow, sorry for your loss!

ZoomZoom is a nice looking boy!!

I think ZZ over the porcelains will result in millies split to porcelain.

 

[wegotchickens]

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She may be hiding a nest somewhere. It would be better if you can find and confine her better, since her light color will make it harder for her to hide. My milles can blend into a forest no problem, but I'll bet a porcelain stands out.


I had standards and bantams mixed, and they got along fine. For a while they were in seperate pens and only free-ranged together. Then when the milles started 'putting themselves away' in the big kids pen, I let em! They did great together. But it was a small flock, with 4 standards, 1 bantam mutt, a silkie and 4 d'Uccles.

Now I have only small breeds. I'd say you just need to put her where she can't get out, and then do supervised free-ranging until she understands she has to come home to go to bed at night.

 

[Cetawin]

Lori, thanks I miss Spike he was my sweetie. But I can use ZoomZoom and get another procelain boy later I hope.

 

[Firefly89]

So I recently got two Mille pullets and a lavender (i think is a cockeral :-/) who are now two weeks old and wonderful and I got two yesterday that are either blue or lavender, does anyone have pictures of both at about 3 days? Or is it too early to tell?

 

[Cetawin]

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I was thinking ZZ to procelain is mille split to lavender and those to each other or porcelain give procelain? Not sure I know porcelains are milles with the lavender gene basically...I think. LOL

 

[speckledhen]

I asked Aubrey Webb (Boggy Bottom Bantams) when we were discussing my hatching egg order and he told me about the milles split to lav from porcelain x mille fleur in the D'Anvers. That's why he filled in the order with mille fleur when he didn't have enough porcelains to send. Makes sense since porcelain is just mille fleur with the lav gene added to change the color. I'm very excited about them.

Ladyhawk, again, I'm so sorry about Spike.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

hat's right, millie to porcelain will give all millies the first cross, but they will be split for lavender, now breed those to each other, or even better back to the porcelain parent to get your second dose of lavender into them, this will now give you porcelains, same cam be done with just a plain lavender, but takes longer as the mottling is recessive too so you will get blacks the first cross split to lavender and mottled, so you will be having to breed back in a similar fassion to get both genes a double copy in the offspring..

a lavender chciks will be pale powder blue, blue chicks are usually much darker, some near off black looking..if it's pale blue it's a lavender chick

 

[Celtic Hill]

Guys I have three BQ Duccles for sale, One millie Fleur and two Porcalines, I will give them to anyone who seriously is looking to breed.