D'uccle Thread

[Jloeffler]

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d'uccle pullet for sale 10$ can ship https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/98166_img-20110905-001691.jpghttps://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/98166_smith-20110905-001701.jpg

Very tempting ranch ruler! Why, if I may ask, are you selling?​

 

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im selling because I done with breeding d'uccles I think its to hard to breed them and im moving in new breeds to the pens also will trade for other breeds I may want

 

[Jloeffler]

Several of my chicks have broken leg feathers. I have them on pine shavings. Is this a no no for D'Uccles ? The others are all fine with no problems and I cleaned the broken shafts with hydrogen peroxide to keep any blood smell from encouraging pecking.

 

[teddiliza]

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I keep mine on textured papertowels for the first week so they can get their footing and not stumble so much. They do tend to peck each others feet. The paper towels don't stick and I start with a stack and just peel off a layer every other day and fold the yucky into it and pitch it.

 

[Jloeffler]

Teddi do you put them on regular pine shavings after that or do they always have different material in the coop?

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

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I take it you are talking about older birds if they have developed shafts and such.... I keep mine on shavings until they go outside, then I let mine either free range on grass or their pens are sand like texture. mine have very nice feathering on the feet, if they range while its wet they get a big haggard, but in dry conditions they do very well. I suggest if you want the feet to stay in really good feather condition - keep them in a covered run with sand or fine loose dirt, make sure water can't get in and sit in the run at all, so you may want to keep them off the ground in solid bottom pens if you get alot of rain. in my coops I use a mix of shavings and pine needles.

 

[teddiliza]

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. I use pine shavings everywhere

 

[joanie_maine]

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. I use pine shavings everywhere

I'm the Queen of Shavings too!!

The depth of shavings in my pens and cages is always CONSIDERABLE!

I've noticed that the young d'Uccle and Booted birds tend to pick at each others foot feathers. Now that the majority of my birds are over five months old, they seem to have lost interest in "feet".

Funny..the young cochins have no interest in anything but FOOD!!

 

[Jloeffler]

They are four days old and beginning to develop juvenile wing and leg feathering. Some have very heavy thick shafts , especially on the legs. I put some paper toweling in half the brooder, like you suggested, Teddi. They seem to like it so imay lay some more tonight and leave them some bare pine shavings for sleep time. Of course several would rather sleep in the feed bowl...

 

[teddiliza]

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. I use pine shavings everywhere

I'm the Queen of Shavings too!!

The depth of shavings in my pens and cages is always CONSIDERABLE!

I've noticed that the young d'Uccle and Booted birds tend to pick at each others foot feathers. Now that the majority of my birds are over five months old, they seem to have lost interest in "feet".

Funny..the young cochins have no interest in anything but FOOD!!

My d's raised by broody hens seem to have awful looking feet, by the ones I start on papertowels don't seem to lose as many I guess cause they are smoother and less likely to tangle or stick to their poor tender widdle feetsie weetsies