D'uccle Thread

[hdowden]

i miss the chick fuzz lol

 

[mstricer]

Just locked down my 8 D'Uccle eggs. Is this considered the 1st generation. I don't know, but I'm excited and can't wait for them to hatch.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Good luck!

 

[teddiliza]

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Good luck!

Yep! Can't wait to see the grandbabies!

 

[mstricer]

MY BABIES ARE HATCHING

MY BABIES ARE HATCHING

 

[NateinFL]

I thought I would share what I have been working on over the Summer...I've had my closed flock since '09 and this is what I have to show....Florida State Fair here i come! Please let me know what you think...good and bad.

Here is Pullet #1:

Here is Pullet #2

This is the cockerel I am keeping:

These are my pullets in the making:

I LOVE my Mille Fleurs!!!

 

[mstricer]

Beautiful. I love pullet #1's foot feathering

. Now if only I can get my roo to throw some nice babying with black in his spangling I would be showing. Mr Boots has beautiful foot feathering, but spangles are not there, he is however under a year and hasn't had a good adult molt. So maybe, he stays because of his feet. They are all beautiful. I just hatched test eggs from my Teddi gang. One porcelain hen and 2 boys and the Mille boy. It's a toss up. Who's the Daddy

. I will be separating everyone in the spring. The Mille boy has 2 Mille girls in quarantine waiting for him. SHHHHH it's a Christmas gift.

I can't wait to see what I get from them. The girls are at POL so once I put them together, I should be able to start hatching them when they give me eggs right. Gota check bator lots of chirping going on, probably missed another one hatch.
Michele

 

[hdowden]

they all look nice love the foot feathering. in the last pic i like the hen in the back looking at the cam. she has a nice beard as for the roo if you can keep him till he molts to see if he gets his spangles i would do that. i like heavy foot feathering and nice very full beards but not to full.

i want to create frizzled d'uccles, i just dont know what frizzle bread to use. and how could i make them pure d'uccles again (how many genartions would it take)? what's the closest breed thats frizzled do yall think i could use? also would i use a frizzle roo over d'uccle hens or d'uccle roo over frizzle hens. if i get the frizzling with the d'uccle that looks like a d'uccle i might sell the eggs as pets only making it 100% known that they arent pure d'uccles for those who dont know the d'uccles dont come in frizzleing. i might not even offer them as pure even after 10 years of breading the frizzled d'uccles back to pure d'uccles (again not sure how long it would take to make them pure again).

 

[wegotchickens]

Pure is irrelevant if you're making frizzles. They aren't accepted in the standard and would always be AOV.
As much leaf litter and mud as they collect already, I think designing a d'Uccle with foot feathers that sweep forward seems kind of cruel. But that's my opinion.


Nate, I like #1 but she has a couple of mostly white featehrs that concern me. Make sure there are no all-white feathers as it's a DQ for mf. She has a good even mahogany base though. I'll bet she's gorgeous on her next molt.

#2 doesn't have clean spangling and isn't holding herself in a show position, but she has more white and judges seem to be into more white these days. Definitely show as many as you can and see what judges in your area are looking for.

The cockerel is not a bad-looking boy! How are his feet? Can't really tell in the pics. But I love his posture.

The cockerel in with the pullets has an awful lot of white on him. Watch that, due to the white feather dq issue. The little girls are cuties!

Are you NPIP? How far are you from St Simon's Island in GA? I have family out that way that we may be seeing summer 2012....

 

[hdowden]

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what about sizzles and frizzed cochins both of them also have foot feathering.