D'uccle Thread

[Jake Levi]

Look for a rooster in the chicks that you hatch, a rooster as you discribe is a definite mix, so NOT a breeding stock rooster, I'd find him a pet home. Ideal is fine if you want a basic production flock, whatever the breed, but they are too often apt to mix about anything in their hens to keep them breeding. Just basic business for them, not good for folks who want specific breeds with nothing else in them. The birds that they designate as production breeds of different hybrids are good, very good.

Longer then I wanted but, its what I have seen.

D'Uccles are a particular breed for showing, pets etc, deal with breeders,

Nuff, good luck on the hatch.

Make a nice pet for somebody with the rooster.

 

[dsfrango]

All 17 of mine are bought from the local feed store. These are my first chickens and I do plan on breeding that is why I am so concerned about her size.

 

Oh ok, I wasn't sure if u had a mixed flock of standards and bantams. If she's smaller than others of the same/similar breed she could just be a runty one, whether its genetics or she gets bullied away from the food. Just observe her and see if that's the case. If so separate the bully for a week or so.

 

[chickletteSarge]

no im not mixing my bantys with eachother!!! im going the pure line rt... seems a bit easier...

 

[mstricer]

That is the way to go. If they have wattles though ask wwhere the got them chances are they are hatchery birds.

 

[Amalthea]

Oh ok, I wasn't sure if u had a mixed flock of standards and bantams. If she's smaller than others of the same/similar breed she could just be a runty one, whether its genetics or she gets bullied away from the food. Just observe her and see if that's the case. If so separate the bully for a week or so.

She is a piggy chicken, lol. I have a long feeder so everyone can get their food at the same time, but normally when I am out there she is not being bullied. I leave more than enough food out for her too, maybe she is just a runt, I can only hope at this point. Is there a way I can find out if she is a purebred d'uccle? I want to keep my fancy breeds pure when I breed.

 

[mstricer]

d'Uccles are supposed to be small and squaty looking. The only way you will be able to tell if she is pure is to ask the person you got her from.

 

[hdowden]

She is a piggy chicken, lol. I have a long feeder so everyone can get their food at the same time, but normally when I am out there she is not being bullied. I leave more than enough food out for her too, maybe she is just a runt, I can only hope at this point. Is there a way I can find out if she is a purebred d'uccle? I want to keep my fancy breeds pure when I breed.

what breeds are you comparing her to?

 

[hdowden]

i am working on getting smaller wattles on my self blues these are the ones i have to work with. all hens were breed by me using the self blue cock and an exalaint porcelain hen. a bit disappointed in the ladies foot feathering and combs as the middle toes barely have any feathers and the combs flop over on some (there are 4 hens) -_-

the porcelain hen i used

 

[hdowden]

also working on my golden necks. the cocks beard is small and he has more wattle than i like. the hen is on the small side as well. dont mind her pics we ended up with some new birds with legmites and treated everyone with cooking oil the oil got on the feathers and the dirt wold not come out so waiting for a good molt to take care of that, cock is missing a toenail but that was done on the wire bottom when he was a chick

 

[Amalthea]

what breeds are you comparing her to?

I have 3 barred rock pullets, 3 easter eggers two female and one male, 2 buff orphingtons, 3 sussex one male two female, 1 frizzle, 1 black bantam that came out of the same group as the frizzle, the d'uccle, one that is very small still and I do not know the breed of, and 2 rhode island reds.