D'uccle Thread

[SilkiesForEver]

Today I lost my only Milie Fluer booted bantam chick. She was a fighter. I could tell something was wrong yesterday. She was acting kinda off but I thought maybe she was cold, they are still young so they're in the house, so I turned the heat lamp up. Today she would just stand there and get stepped on. I separated her in a different crate with a heat lamp and gave her some mash, yogurt and some water. She just wasn't getting any better so I left her alone for a while and when I came back she was laying on her back with her neck all crooked and feet in the air. I held her while she took her last few minutes of life and cried like a baby. I tried everything I knew to do.

Aww. I'm so sorry.

You did everything you knew to do, and gave her a fighting chance.

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Today I lost my only Milie Fluer booted bantam chick. She was a fighter. I could tell something was wrong yesterday. She was acting kinda off but I thought maybe she was cold, they are still young so they're in the house, so I turned the heat lamp up. Today she would just stand there and get stepped on. I separated her in a different crate with a heat lamp and gave her some mash, yogurt and some water. She just wasn't getting any better so I left her alone for a while and when I came back she was laying on her back with her neck all crooked and feet in the air. I held her while she took her last few minutes of life and cried like a baby. I tried everything I knew to do.

Sorry to hear about your baby, Phoenix.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I'm wondering if I need to worm my duccles. They are a year old. How do I worm them?

in my siggy link is a ton of health info, scroll down to the worms and lice section. There are links explaining about the different worms, and how to treat; also in the section titled "medication charts" or something along that line there are more dosing instructions. Make sure you do the doses for banties!

Do you free range? If they are primarily cooped you may not need to, but if they range in the yard they may need it. They get worms from other wild birds, and from eating bugs. The worm eggs are in the bugs that they eat, gross but that's how they get the worms.

 

[CuddlesDuccles]

in my siggy link is a ton of health info, scroll down to the worms and lice section.   There are links explaining about the different worms, and how to treat; also in the section titled "medication charts" or something along that line there are more dosing instructions.  Make sure you do the doses for banties!

Do you free range? If they are primarily cooped you may not need to, but if they range in the yard they may need it.  They get worms from other wild birds, and from eating bugs. The worm eggs are in the bugs that they eat, gross but that's how they get the worms.

Thanks
They primarily are cooped but have gone out a few times. I just wondered because they have never been wormed. They also seem a little thin to me but they eat all they get their beaks on lol. Maybe that's just the breed, I don't know. These are my first chickens, and they are my babies I just want to do what's supposed to be done.

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Thanks

They primarily are cooped but have gone out a few times. I just wondered because they have never been wormed. They also seem a little thin to me but they eat all they get their beaks on lol. Maybe that's just the breed, I don't know. These are my first chickens, and they are my babies I just want to do what's supposed to be done.

What do you mean thin? Are they slender or can you feel bones when you hold them?

 

[Phoenix Farms]

Thank you all. I was very crushed losing her but her 7 other siblings are alive and gaining weight as they should. She was just feather and bones.. Say, will anyone be looking for Millie Fleur roosters in the spring? I ended up with 3 Roos and 5 pullets out of their straight run and since I lost my little booted I have only one extra to keep if I pair the rest up. The others aren't booted and the roosters have barely visible combs only because they're growing their face fluff back in.

 

[FairLeaBantams]

I'm wondering if I need to worm my duccles. They are a year old. How do I worm them?

I use Ivermectin paste that is meant for horses from our local farm store. I use a little less than a pea size blob per chicken, and just hold them and open their beaks and pop in the paste. I wait a week then do it again to get any worm eggs that may have hatched. I toss the chicken eggs for about a month afterward, even though I don't think that amount of Ivermectin is that big of a deal.

 

[FairLeaBantams]

Now I just have to figure out what to breed her to....I have mille fleur, golden neck and porcelain roos.

Hmmmm, that's tough one! Maybe porcelain?

 

[winniem13]

Are you talking about the metal bars? You can move them around to make room for different sized eggs. I wasn't sure what they were for exactly at first, but in the manual it say that they are to prevent the eggs from rolling. I make them just wide enough for the eggs to be able to be put in without them having to touch the bars.

Hopefully this makes sense and hopefully I am thinking of the right 'bator.

Yes you are thinking about the metal bars. Guess I was trying to squeeze the eggs!!!! I will just have to practice with placement. Thanks.

 

[laseterlass]

Hi everyone! I need eggs from all of the different D'uccle colors. In Alaska all we have are Millies and a small teeny tiny gene pool. Anyone willing to sell and ship?