D'uccle Thread

[RustysProvider]

Ok I'm going to leave some this week and see who sticks in there and defends the clutch. Then ill remove that hen and get her settled some where quiet and secluded so I can switch the fakes for some fertile eggs. Any way to kill a eggs fertility to use it as a fake so they don't began to grow? Ill post with results next week.

 

[Phoenix Farms]

You don't have to use real eggs. We use plastic Easter eggs filled with small rocks so they are just as heavy as real eggs. They don't care about the colors of the eggs. We have even used zebra print ones before. Once they go broody or we are sure they are broody we move them. Usually mine go broody just because of their breed (though I haven't had D'Uccles yet. I bought a hen who looks and feels like she just got done brooding). The Phoenix breed doesn't really need much help.

 

[animalsRawesome]

Ok I'm going to leave some this week and see who sticks in there and defends the clutch. Then ill remove that hen and get her settled some where quiet and secluded so I can switch the fakes for some fertile eggs. Any way to kill a eggs fertility to use it as a fake so they don't began to grow? Ill post with results next week.

Could you hard-boil it?

 

[bice14]

Just use golf balls, thats what I do and it works. They will also lay eggs next to the golf balls and they dont know the difference.

 

[chicknfun]

Quote: Yeah, my little chickies didn't make it, they were DOA at the feed store.....supposed to re-send them at the end of the month

 

[Bama1]

Yeah, my little chickies didn't make it, they were DOA at the feed store.....supposed to re-send them at the end of the month

Oh nooooo! So sad.

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Boy, I'm disappointed. I waited 21 loooong days, for a beardless, vulture hock lacking, non-feather footed chick that was supposedly from my pure D'uccle hen and rooster.

Dang. Either something happened with their genetics, or it isn't from my D'uccle pair. But, I'm 99.9% positive its from them though...

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Somebody must have snuck an egg in there. The first thing d'uccles add to ANY other breed is their foot feathers. Vulture hocks take a second breeding to come back. There just doesn't seem to be any way that could be a d'uccle chick, unless there are screwy genetics, which can happen, of course. But of all my breedings, I've never had a chick born without foot feathers, and they sometimes outcross. Even then, the cross chick are born with foot feathers.
But weirder things can happen, I suppose.

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

My newest set of d'uccle chicks, at three weeks, are all flying out of the bin they are in. I've got four large, clear plastic bins kept in a nice warm bathroom and every time I go in there, they are all over the place. So much for keeping them separated They are so cute!
I have a new project, one that wasn't planned for. My black splash silkie/d'uccle has created several d'uccle splashes, so I might develop that line. The latest chick was born white with a small black spot on the top of his head, and two spots over his hips. the fact that he has black spots as a chick, makes hima paint, and not a splash. The other splash d'uccles are a little over a month old, but none were born with these cute dots.


My latest little homozygous dun d'uccle, also known as khaki.

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Somebody must have snuck an egg in there. The first thing d'uccles add to ANY other breed is their foot feathers. Vulture hocks take a second breeding to come back. There just doesn't seem to be any way that could be a d'uccle chick, unless there are screwy genetics, which can happen, of course. But of all my breedings, I've never had a chick born without foot feathers, and they sometimes outcross. Even then, the cross chick are born with foot feathers.
But weirder things can happen, I suppose.

I'm so weirded out by it! I had a OEGB hen who was my Frizzle cochins favorite, but I didn't think she was laying yet....

The chick doesn't even have coloring like her, or the cochin. It's a dark brown (like my brown-red D'uccle) with a reddish brown head (like a brown-red D'uccle). I'm so confuzzled. I have two more eggs in the bator that are developing, so we'll see what we get.