D'uccle Thread

[fuzzybutt love]

I adore blue/ lav, what kind of turkeys are those?! They are beautiful! I have been thinking about getting turkeys too, just didn't know they came in that color!

 

[JulieNKC]

I adore blue/ lav, what kind of turkeys are those?! They are beautiful! I have been thinking about getting turkeys too, just didn't know they came in that color!

They are mutt turkeys, lol. Blue slate, with some royal palm mixed in there somewhere so they get pretty pencilling showing. The tom is self blue(2 copies blue), the hen is splash(one copy blue).

 

[kristip]

Hello,
So these are the birds that my friend and I got last week.
The lavender and the red mille fleur are the roos, the black mottled beauty is a 2year old hen and the three on the lef

t are all about 3 months old. So excited to start working with these guys!

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

shes pretty

mine are mostly pets and i wounder what will pop out of my hatchery golden necks lol (i still don't know why some call them splash millies though)

I was at a genetics website in which the author kept calling his splash. Since he has more authority than I, I chose to write Spalsh instead of gold-necked, which is a pain in the neck to type. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

In breeding gold-necked, you do not want to breed them together, because the white will take over. Breeding two blue millies will result in gold-necked, blue millies and possibly a reg millie, depending on which genes get thrown. That's why most people keep reg, blue and gold-necked millies in the same pen, because you will not kill the color and all the chicks will be one of those original colors.

The white gold-necked you saw was probably the result of breeding gold to gold after a generation. The black dots were more likely to be the "Holes" in the white, the paint gene we are striving to find.

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Thank you for posting the photos...I've been wondering how Lavender really differed from Self-Blue and Porcelain (ugh, I can't spell it without spell check). They kind of look Porcelain but with some tan/brown at the shoulders (that part might be the Milli coming thru however).

CG

Lavender is the same genetics as the self-blue. Again, I'm too lazy to write "self-blue", so I, write the prettier "lavender" . Porcelain refers to a feather that has three colors. Actually, all miilies are porcelain, except the gold necked which has its black removed. But putting the porcelain name to the lavender millie just gives it a way to separate the millies. Again, sorry for the confusion, but there seems to be several names for many of these colors, and it really just depends on which "expert" you are talking to.

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

I love this guy! I just ordered my d'uccles from ideal, since I wanted to go with something easy and unexpensive to make sure I liked them before diving in, lol. Ordered blue mille hoping to get one like him, but pretty sure all mine are regular mille. I'm already planning on getting more in spring now.

They are such neat little chickens.

You will get several gold-necked in your "blue millie" eggs, never fear! In fact, most of them will be gold necked. Breeding gold necked to reg mille will get you blue millie. Two blues will result in gold necks.

 

[CFellows]

You all seem to be a wealth of knowledge, so I have a question for you.

Is it normal for Millie Flures to not have much mottling when they are young? Will they get more as they mature? Or are mine just very plain birds?

 

[babymakes6]

Be patient-the white will come!

 

[wegotchickens]

I was at a genetics website in which the author kept calling his splash. Since he has more authority than I, I chose to write Spalsh instead of gold-necked, which is a pain in the neck to type. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

In breeding gold-necked, you do not want to breed them together, because the white will take over. Breeding two blue millies will result in gold-necked, blue millies and possibly a reg millie, depending on which genes get thrown. That's why most people keep reg, blue and gold-necked millies in the same pen, because you will not kill the color and all the chicks will be one of those original colors.

The white gold-necked you saw was probably the result of breeding gold to gold after a generation. The black dots were more likely to be the "Holes" in the white, the paint gene we are striving to find.

Nope!
I bred goldneck to goldneck with no problem for over 2 years. All chicks were goldneck and the roos all looked just as strongly gold as their daddy.
The pullets had more variation to their coloring, but that's because their mama was the butterscotch pale version. So some were pale and some were dark.
I know several master d'Uccle breeders who breed goldneck to goldneck without issues.

My little spotty birds are definitely not "paint". The feathers, when looked at closely, are not actually black but white with black smut across this in an inconsistent granular pattern.

 

[wegotchickens]

You all seem to be a wealth of knowledge, so I have a question for you.

Is it normal for Millie Flures to not have much mottling when they are young? Will they get more as they mature? Or are mine just very plain birds?

That's why my young self-blues sell so much quicker than my millies: They look prettier earlier.
But the longer it takes to get the white spots, the better off you are, usually. Give them until around 6 months and they should be looking good by then!