D'uccle Thread

[Phoenix Farms]

Have 47 eggs incubating right now and just picked up 8 Salmon Faverolle pullets. Can't wait. I have a Porcelin Sablepoot/Silver Phoenix and a Porcelin Sablepoot/RIR Bantam, the rest are just mixed up chicks. Can't wait!! Also, my Mille cockerel, his two pullets and the BLRW cockerel get to go back to the outside pen with the other 4 D'uccles, the Ameracauna pullet and the Campine cockerel next weekend. I'm so happy because they have missed the grass and are getting bigger. The tiny new bantam crowing in the house is also getting annoying.

 

[BlueCamas]

side sprigs are disqualifications right? I'm decideing weather to keep one of my roos or not and I don't want any for breeding with disqualifications.

If you're planning to show, or sell hatching eggs at potential SQ you don't want him in your breeding pen. Side Sprigs are very easy to pass on to offspring.

 

[mstricer]

Quote: When I went to feed and water the chicks, things don't look good his leg is almost out to the side and he isn't using it. I don't want him to suffer. So I guess we will have to take care of it tomorrow. I don't live that far from Chicks4MyFamily, that is who I got him from. So I bet I could get another roo from her. I really wanted them to add a different color to my Olive eggers. I have two girls. Back to your boy I would go ahead and show him. If you have others take a few with you and have your birds judged, I wish I would have taken more to Ohio National's. I took on 2 Mille Fleur girls and 2 Black Mottled a cockerel and a pullet. My Mille took Champion d'Uccle and my Black Mottled roo took Best Variety and pullet took Reserved Variety, but they were the only Mottled's there. I should have taken more. I will at my next show. What show are you going to?

 

[Phoenix Farms]

Okay, so the guy I bought my Sablepoot pair from said they were Porcelin D'Uccles, which I've now learned they aren't, and all three pairs of his birds had no muffs or beards. He showed one pair and they both won Champion under the D'Uccle title. My question is, should I go ahead and put them under D'Uccle this year when I show them or put them under Sablepoot in the "Other Featherlegged" class? They competed against muffed and bearded because I was there at the show. I wasn't very pleased by the judging on my Phoenixes or the way the show was ran. Many people showing didn't follow the rules. But they said they are getting new judges and classes and making it better this year so I'll try again.

 

[hdowden]

Okay, so the guy I bought my Sablepoot pair from said they were Porcelin D'Uccles, which I've now learned they aren't, and all three pairs of his birds had no muffs or beards. He showed one pair and they both won Champion under the D'Uccle title. My question is, should I go ahead and put them under D'Uccle this year when I show them or put them under Sablepoot in the "Other Featherlegged" class? They competed against muffed and bearded because I was there at the show. I wasn't very pleased by the judging on my Phoenixes or the way the show was ran. Many people showing didn't follow the rules. But they said they are getting new judges and classes and making it better this year so I'll try again.

can you post pics?

 

[mstricer]

They shouldn't have won under the the d'Uccle title. People should have been debating that with the ABA standards book in hand.

 

[Phoenix Farms]

I can't post pictures right now. I have some on my profile they are under the album, "Booted Bantam thread".

I know they shouldn't have won. The judging was poor. I'm going to enter them under Sablepoots and hope for the best.

 

[nothingbutbirds]

If you're planning to show, or sell hatching eggs at potential SQ you don't want him in your breeding pen. Side Sprigs are very easy to pass on to offspring. 

thanks i'm trying to get my d'uccles as close to the standards as poddible but my favorite roo dosent make very good roosters but makes the most beautiful and full feathered pullets.

 

[nothingbutbirds]

these arent d'uccles but they sure are cute.

 

[Overoberyl]

thanks i'm trying to get my d'uccles as close to the standards as poddible but my favorite roo dosent make very good roosters but makes the most beautiful and full feathered pullets.

It's the maternal grandsire effect, a la Secretariat! Those hens should produce outstanding roos