D'uccle Thread

[texasgal]

wegotchickens - I watch with great interest what you are doing ..

I have a little pen of d'uccles and next spring I plan to cull and introduce some new blood ..

** wishing lots of hatching eggs from your girls **

~deb

 

[GypsyChic]

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My blk girls dont show the coloration of your ladies, they are solid black with no trace of any other colors. However, a couple of them also lack in "V" department on shape (go figure, lol). Here are a couple gals going through molt:

This is a pic of "WC" taken a couple months ago when he was still getting his beard and "filling in". Looks a bit, OK REALLY funny here, but should show you the difference in color regarding your party boy...**Who is gorgeous** BTW

I also second your comment regarding the other list

FIRE AWAY....love to get critiques, even if not the best. WC is now 8mos old I will take new pics to add to thread.

 

[Celtic Hill]

 

[wegotchickens]

WC is a very pretty boy. Can't wait to see him after his beard fills out and he starts throwing his chest out!

Your girls are pretty, too. Even my BB BV winners aren't always in V formation (yuk yuk). But when they strike a pose? Ooh lala!
I can't wait to see what all these birds look like by spring. Yours and mine both!


Wish you could come to the OH Nationals, GypsyChic. I'd swap some blackbirds with you, if you were game....
(BTW, feeling any better yet?)

 

[acid_chipmunk]

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My blk girls dont show the coloration of your ladies, they are solid black with no trace of any other colors. However, a couple of them also lack in "V" department on shape (go figure, lol). Here are a couple gals going through molt:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/39809_blkpul23.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/39809_opo12.jpg

This is a pic of "WC" taken a couple months ago when he was still getting his beard and "filling in". Looks a bit, OK REALLY funny here, but should show you the difference in color regarding your party boy...**Who is gorgeous** BTW

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/39809_wc.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/39809_wc29.jpg
I also second your comment regarding the other list

FIRE AWAY....love to get critiques, even if not the best. WC is now 8mos old I will take new pics to add to thread.

WC is gorgeous!!!

 

[GypsyChic]

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Would LOVE to go, but I simply can't yet. Hope to be up to par (heehee) by March. Thanks for asking & offering though. I appreciate the thoughts and kind gestures. We'll hook up someday

I'm sure of it.

ETA: If your looking for any lavy eggs let me know. My avatar is my main roo with super beard, very LITTLE wattle

 

[GypsyChic]

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My blk girls dont show the coloration of your ladies, they are solid black with no trace of any other colors. However, a couple of them also lack in "V" department on shape (go figure, lol). Here are a couple gals going through molt:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/39809_blkpul23.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/39809_opo12.jpg

This is a pic of "WC" taken a couple months ago when he was still getting his beard and "filling in". Looks a bit, OK REALLY funny here, but should show you the difference in color regarding your party boy...**Who is gorgeous** BTW

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/39809_wc.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/39809_wc29.jpg
I also second your comment regarding the other list

FIRE AWAY....love to get critiques, even if not the best. WC is now 8mos old I will take new pics to add to thread.

WC is gorgeous!!!

LOL, Thank you! He's kinda 'special' around here

 

[wegotchickens]

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Would LOVE to go, but I simply can't yet. Hope to be up to par (heehee) by March. Thanks for asking & offering though. I appreciate the thoughts and kind gestures. We'll hook up someday

I'm sure of it.

ETA: If your looking for any lavy eggs let me know. My avatar is my main roo with super beard, very LITTLE wattle

OOOooOoOoOoOo, you're sooo going to get me in trouble with DH!

I think he's only going to the OH Nationals with me to make sure no one comes home with me. Silly man. Like he can stop me?

But I did agree to leave the bator off until next year (and am patiently awaiting 1/1/11).
So if you have eggs available from that lovely self-blue boy around Christmas, let me know!! (that is only 5+ weeks away. Wow.)

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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I got ya, I know Ron and Brain Massigale both, both have great birds. Ron does tons of genetic work on d'uccles, so it is possible that's where it came from, would be back several generations, in any he sold I'm sure, but very possible coming from him knowing all the work he has done with them.
Either way. I'd be prowd to have some with possible lacing in them, a true laced d'uccle would be something to truely crow about!!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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Howdy folks, I sure wish this was being discussed on the genetics thread. I realize the concern about running into folks that can be critical, but so far I don't think there had been much of that, but I could have missed something.
Anyway.............. on to my question. Are you certain that all GN's are genetically constructed with the dominant white gene? I have a very cute GN pullet that I'm planning to put with my MF's. My hope is that I will acquire the Andalusian gene so that I can get Blue MF and of course GN. It was my understanding that GN is or can be the splash version of Mille Fleur.
Nancy

100% possitive of it Nancy.
A true Goldneck of any breed is a millie fluer x dominate white bird. What you are talking about is called a sport or splash millie, they are the result of the blue genein blue millies and are a 25% possibility when breeding blue to blue.
If you have one, the white will be bluish or mottled with blue patches like any other splash bird. It will not be the pure white like in goldnecks, though they look similar.
Also the body color on sports is usually uneven as well. I know on the calculator, the sport looks like a goldneck, but they dont look quite like that in person.


If you breed a millie male to a GN hen, you're just going to get about 50/50 of each.

To get the blue millies, you have to do what I am doing in the d'anver, find some blues, and just breed them over to the millies, then breed the blue offspring back to the millies again and you're pretty much there.
I used to have the blue millie d'uucles, and loved them, they were extremely nice, as were the sport versions they made, but they werent true goldnecks...