D'uccle Thread

[lilcrow]

BBB, thanks for the clarification. I've been trying to understand this thing about the GN and the splash MF for a long time now and this is the first time it has been explained in a way that I could understand it.

wegotchickens, I know what you mean about Henk kind of knocking folks for rambling, I remember that and actually thought he was scolding me 'cause I go on so much when I get started on something. It took the wind out of my sails for a while.........quite a while actually, I haven't done much talking since then.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Yes. I know I'm too chatty and can ramble. We compared notes a lot over there. But I was learning from the rambling, and gaining confidence. So to be told 'no one wants to read through all this crap' knocked the wind out of me, too.
Had I not rambled on this thread, BBB would not have given me a valuable piece of info, like about Ron possibly getting the lace gene into his millies.

BBB, thanks for the info on Ron and the possibility of lacing. I feel like I do when I get a puzzle piece clicked into place. Especially after seeing GypsyChic's all black birds. When I bred the project birds I only had the RT millies to breed from, and for both crossings to show the lacing really confused me.
By both crossing I mean MF over lav hens, and lav over mf hens. I had the 2 groups of chicks separate for a while to see if there were any obvious differences. My original goal for that was to see if I got better feather style from the mf roo versus the mf hens (who carries gene for feather quality?). There was no obvious difference in feather quality, though. All showed improvement (losing tattered almost silkie edges and going to a smoothly edged feather).

BBB, are you going to the OH Nationals?
If anyone on this thread is, I'd love to meet you all!!!!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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Yes. I know I'm too chatty and can ramble. We compared notes a lot over there. But I was learning from the rambling, and gaining confidence. So to be told 'no one wants to read through all this crap' knocked the wind out of me, too.
Had I not rambled on this thread, BBB would not have given me a valuable piece of info, like about Ron possibly getting the lace gene into his millies.

BBB, thanks for the info on Ron and the possibility of lacing. I feel like I do when I get a puzzle piece clicked into place. Especially after seeing GypsyChic's all black birds. When I bred the project birds I only had the RT millies to breed from, and for both crossings to show the lacing really confused me.
By both crossing I mean MF over lav hens, and lav over mf hens. I had the 2 groups of chicks separate for a while to see if there were any obvious differences. My original goal for that was to see if I got better feather style from the mf roo versus the mf hens (who carries gene for feather quality?). There was no obvious difference in feather quality, though. All showed improvement (losing tattered almost silkie edges and going to a smoothly edged feather).

BBB, are you going to the OH Nationals?
If anyone on this thread is, I'd love to meet you all!!!!

N o problem,
not possitive, but I do know he does tons of genetic work like I said with them, he with d'uccles is like me with d'anvers, always trying new combos to get new colors out of them. Dont think anyone in the country has more d'uccle colors than Ron. So there's a good shot, that's where it came from I would feel.
As for the nationals, wish I could, that's a long ride from the GA/FL line though, and as slow as work is right now, I have to stay here to get all I can...

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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no problem lilcrow, glad to try to help
As for the genetics stuff, I know what you mean. I think a lot of them on there just try to show how much they know. They know most common folks dont understand all those blame symbols, capitol verses lower cased letters, and such, shoot I dont myself, (yet they insist on replying that way, like you said often with an attitude if you dont understand them). But I know what happens when you write it out in English for folks to understand, this x this =that.
Everyone can figure out what you mean then.
Dont ever let anyone keep you from asking questions. If someone has a problem with that, they have no business posting on BYC in my opinion, that's what it's hear for, to ask, share , and learn from one another.

 

[Gypsylion]

Two things...

First, this baby is a mix, but based on the discussion we've been having, I thought you'd all be interested in the coloring. Dad is a porc d'Uccle, and Mom is a black mottled bantam cochin.

Henry

Second, I just got Tamara Staples' pics of the SB/lav cockerel Celtic Hill and I were talking about earlier. She's the author of The Fairest Fowl (blue book with a great picture of a Dom on the front, I think, and lots of amazing pics in the book), and was at the Boston Poultry Expo this weekend to shoot for her upcoming book.

Please forgive the very uncorrect straw in his hackles... he was outside a lot this summer.

Little Blue

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

WOW! that last pic with the wings open is neat!

 

[lilcrow]

Gypsylion, your blue boy is VERY nice. I have a question about him, is he sunburned? My lav. has the same straw/tawny streaks in his hackles and I'm hoping it's from sunburn.
I'm going to be at the National and I'm hoping to learn a lot while I'm there..........at least about the d'Uccle. I'm not showing any Cochins since they are all molting. Also, my best d'Uccle hen that I was planning to bring started her molt and it's severe. She's nearly bald in patches, so she's staying at home.
I'm so excited about the anticipation of meeting folks and getting to kibitz. I'll be there Fri so I hope I can find some of my people even then.
Nancy

 

[texasgal]

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And this is the reason I rarely post on the d'uccle threads as well .. I was just getting interested in the breed and was enjoying the conversations.. I still read the threads everyday though and am learning alot from you guys!

I appreciate your knowledge ..

 

[Gypsylion]

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Not sunburned so much as just sun bleaching, from what I've read. The same happened to the white in my black mottled cochin roo's hackle and saddle feathers. It seems that something about the morphology of those rooster hackle/saddle feathers seems to make them susceptible to that (unlike the hen feathers).

It's not a DQ, but it's considered a color fault as far as I know.

 

[lilcrow]

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Not sunburned so much as just sun bleaching, from what I've read. The same happened to the white in my black mottled cochin roo's hackle and saddle feathers. It seems that something about the morphology of those rooster hackle/saddle feathers seems to make them susceptible to that (unlike the hen feathers).

It's not a DQ, but it's considered a color fault as far as I know.

Does that mean that this is sex linked? My birchen and mottled cochin roos both yellow in the sun, but the hens don't. ????? Very curious?????