D'uccle Thread

[ellymayRans]

I'm glad to hear they're doing a little better, their poor little feet! Those photos make me so sad. They really are lucky to have someone looking after them now. I hope no one minds if I share some photos. I've had the little ones 2 weeks now, and guess that they're probably 3 weeks. Little Frankie is my favorite, I'm really hoping she's a pullet. She's smaller than the others, but was in the worst shape when I got them so I'm not sure if she was just a bit stunted. Maybe she was even slightly younger, I don't know. She has the least obvious comb (which could be from being younger or stunted) and is the friendliest. As soon as she sees me she wants to fly up to my shoulder. Fitzwilliam has recently become more friendly and also likes to hop up on my shoulder. George is the most skittish, hates to be picked up. Neville is the one I have suspected of being a cockerel from the beginning. He is just so observant. You can see his personality in the last one, so suspicious of me. Frankie is the only one who seems to have poofy cheeks and chin. They're all very nice little chicks, although so flighty compared to my large fowl!

Thanks! it's been rough but oh your babies are so cute

 

[paris_r]

some pics (albeit poor cell phone ones-cant find good camera) of my new d'uccle hatchlings, showing the difference in whites (is it dom vs recessive white??) the brighter white on the left is a splash, the more traditional yellow chick (right) i am sure will be white when it grows up---BUT--well unless i labeled the egg from the wrong pen, it came from a mating of either a porcelain, lavender or a black mottled rooster over millie fleur, blue millie fleur and golden neck hens....so i can figure out how it would be a solid (father must be lavender) but how did it turn out white???

here is a pic of a week old splash, i still have to figure out the genetics on how these came about....

i have never had splash as chicks before, are they like paints and more spots will develop as they grow?

 

[Chrysolinsbirds]

 

[flockofbantams]

some pics (albeit poor cell phone ones-cant find good camera) of my new d'uccle hatchlings, showing the difference in whites (is it dom vs recessive white??) the brighter white on the left is a splash, the more traditional yellow chick (right) i am sure will be white when it grows up---BUT--well unless i labeled the egg from the wrong pen, it came from a mating of either a porcelain, lavender or a black mottled rooster over millie fleur, blue millie fleur and golden neck hens....so i can figure out how it would be a solid (father must be lavender) but how did it turn out white??? here is a pic of a week old splash, i still have to figure out the genetics on how these came about.... i have never had splash as chicks before, are they like paints and more spots will develop as they grow?

Ok so hope I telling you correct but I remember reading this on another thread. Ok so a paints dark feathers are dark to the shaft and the whole feather will be dark. A splash the feather can have 2 colors mixed in

 

[paris_r]

Ok so hope I telling you correct but I remember reading this on another thread. Ok so a paints dark feathers are dark to the shaft and the whole feather will be dark.

A splash the feather can have 2 colors mixed in

someone may say that but my experience is different. i have a paint silkie rooster who follows paint genetics with his offspring yet he has a feather (one of his few solid ones-a wing one)that has a spot of black on it and also a spot of brown, he really is a tri colour paint.

splash can have larger spots-but it will be a continuum, so shades can be seen-at least on some of the splash i have seen. similar phenotypes, but paint is cleaner lines, you can tell by genotype breeding.

my paints start out often as white and get spots as they develop, i even have paints that are dominantly buff that will get a black spot later, and yes it is a partial feather. as far as i know in my paint line (silkies of course) i have no blue/splash in the genetics- i am on 3rd generation now.

i have seen 2 colour splashes too-even in duccles, but i didnt think the blue/black/splash spectrum would have nay effect on brown pigment.
I know my paints (silkies) are paint because of the size of some of their spots and their skin is mottled for a while until the pigment migrates. paint (and cuckoo) go down to the skin (people talk about 'holes' in the pigment) but splash will not have the pigment in the skin.

 

[flockofbantams]

Ok so hope I telling you correct but I remember reading this on another thread. Ok so a paints dark feathers are dark to the shaft and the whole feather will be dark.


A splash the feather can have 2 colors mixed in

someone may say that but my experience is different. i have a paint silkie rooster who follows paint genetics with his offspring yet he has a feather (one of his few solid ones-a wing one)that has a spot of black on it and also a spot of brown, he really is a tri colour paint. 

splash can have larger spots-but it will be a continuum, so shades can be seen-at least on some of the splash i have seen. similar phenotypes, but paint is cleaner lines, you can tell by genotype breeding. 

my paints start out often as white and get spots as they develop, i even have paints that are dominantly buff that will get a black spot later, and yes it is a partial feather. as far as i know in my paint line (silkies of course) i have no blue/splash in the genetics- i am on 3rd generation now.

i have seen 2 colour splashes too-even in duccles, but i didnt think the blue/black/splash spectrum would have nay effect on brown pigment.
I know my paints (silkies) are paint because of the size of some of their spots and their skin is mottled for a while until the pigment migrates. paint (and cuckoo) go down to the skin (people talk about 'holes' in the pigment) but splash will not have the pigment in the skin.

Good to know, and another question could Whati said that u read be for a different breed say silkies???? Or is the rule for a paint the same for all breeds?

 

[paris_r]

Good to know, and another question could Whati said that u read be for a different breed say silkies???? Or is the rule for a paint the same for all breeds?

i cant quite parse what you are asking exactly, but the question that can relate here that i dont know is 'are there any other breeds of chickens other than silkies that are true paints?' anyone know of another that come in paint?

 

[flockofbantams]

Ok sorry my phone was dieing and I was typing fast and didn't spell check.

Ok what I was saying or asking was, what I had stated earlier about what I read about paints having a solid color feather down to the shaft vs. Splash having 2 different colors on feather.... Could this be true for a different breed like silkie, or is this not true at all

 

[misfitmorgan]

some pics (albeit poor cell phone ones-cant find good camera) of my new d'uccle hatchlings, showing the difference in whites (is it dom vs recessive white??) the brighter white on the left is a splash, the more traditional yellow chick (right) i am sure will be white when it grows up---BUT--well unless i labeled the egg from the wrong pen, it came from a mating of either a porcelain, lavender or a black mottled rooster over millie fleur, blue millie fleur and golden neck hens....so i can figure out how it would be a solid (father must be lavender) but how did it turn out white???

here is a pic of a week old splash, i still have to figure out the genetics on how these came about....

i have never had splash as chicks before, are they like paints and more spots will develop as they grow?

i dont have splashes but since they are d'uccle and splash i would only imagine more spots as they mature and molt out....much like the Flower pattern and how it comes in properly later rather then at a young age.

 

[LustyWriter09]

Bantams are normally NEVER sexed as a chick. Because vent sexing them could mean some serious damadge to their organs. And in some cases an early Death. Thats because they are so Small. Another reason why so many hatcheries don't sell sexed bantam chicks.