D'uccle Thread

[shelleyd2008]

It would be easier to make them with MF. First generation chicks would be split to lavender, so if you'd breed those chicks back to a porcelain bird you *should* get 50/50 porcelain and mille fleur.

 

[Celtic Hill]

Okay, now i just have to find a Porc Rooster! It's so hard to find these guys!

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

Check out the old D'uccle Genetic thread and henk69 indicates how hard it is to make porc. you may want to cut out a step and get the base coloring from a hatchery then work from there. You may just have to work on type and not so much on color which if you have the lav and mille's already then it should not be to hard to do. Not as much culling for color.

just my two cents

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Don't you have porcelain hens? Just use those with a MF rooster.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Porcelain is not hard to make if you have mille fleur and porcelain to start with. The important thing is that you need mottled (both mille fleur and porcelain are mottled) and lavender (porcelain is lavender). You need 2 doses of lavender for it to show, so by breeding a mille fleur to a porcelain all chicks would be mille fleur (mottled BB Red? I think?) split to lavender (porcelain). By breeding the chicks back to the lavender (porcelain) parent you have a 50/50 chance of the chicks hatching out as porcelain since they would get 1 copy of lavender from the porcelain parent and a 50/50 chance of getting a copy of lavender from the split parent.

Now if you're talking about making porcelain from 'scratch', that's a whole different subject! One that is way too confusing for me, I'll just stick with making porcelains with mille fleurs

 

[Celtic Hill]

Oh yeah, I was having a moment! I There were some at the last show i went to, but they had missing toe tails. Is that a big thing or something not to worry about?

 

[shelleyd2008]

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It's a fault, though I'm not sure if it's a DQ. I also don't know how it passes on to the chicks. It seems like there was someone on this thread (or maybe the genetics thread, idk) that said it did pass from the parent to the chick.

 

[Celtic Hill]

Ahh, i remember people were culling because of it so i just keep looking.

 

[Chicken Frenzie]

Wow... their BEAUTIFUL!! I'm gettnig one next Spring I can't wait!

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

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Porcelain is not hard to make if you have mille fleur and porcelain to start with. The important thing is that you need mottled (both mille fleur and porcelain are mottled) and lavender (porcelain is lavender). You need 2 doses of lavender for it to show, so by breeding a mille fleur to a porcelain all chicks would be mille fleur (mottled BB Red? I think?) split to lavender (porcelain). By breeding the chicks back to the lavender (porcelain) parent you have a 50/50 chance of the chicks hatching out as porcelain since they would get 1 copy of lavender from the porcelain parent and a 50/50 chance of getting a copy of lavender from the split parent.

Now if you're talking about making porcelain from 'scratch', that's a whole different subject! One that is way too confusing for me, I'll just stick with making porcelains with mille fleurs

This is why I suggested if you must to start withthe hatchery stack. As she already has some good birds in the required colors to improve what the hachery quality is.