D'uccle Thread

[jannakaye]

Mille fleur

 

[dsfrango]

I'm looking into adding a D'Uccle hen to my flock and was wondering if anyone has any tips on picking out a "good quality" hen/pullet?

One tip I can provide is to never buy one bird at a time....unless its a rooster going to hen only flock. Its stressful on new hens being introduced to a new flock alone. As for picking good quality, read all the 1000 pages of this thread or read the standard of perfection booklet and look at some SQ pictures.

 

[mymilliefleur]

One tip I can provide is to never buy one bird at a time....unless its a rooster going to hen only flock. Its stressful on new hens being introduced to a new flock alone. As for picking good quality, read all the 1000 pages of this thread or read the standard of perfection booklet and look at some SQ pictures.

X2.

 

[kada6305]

3-4 week duccle. Pullet or cockerel?

 

[mymilliefleur]

3-4 week duccle. Pullet or cockerel?

Looks like a cockerel.

 

[sawade]

This is our first year raising bantams. We have 5 total, 4 are going normal but 1 is not developing. They are about 2 weeks old but little guy still looks like a few days old... size wise. Feathers are coming in. Has anyone seen this before?

 

[frannyglass]

3-4 week duccle. Pullet or cockerel?

He looks more developed than any of my almost 5 week olds, including the one I'm pretty confident is a cockerel.

This is our first year raising bantams. We have 5 total, 4 are going normal but 1 is not developing. They are about 2 weeks old but little guy still looks like a few days old... size wise. Feathers are coming in. Has anyone seen this before?

Last year my (large fowl) lavender orpington was very similar. She (or actually he, as it eventually turned out) just never grew, feathered in appropriately but lagged so far behind in size. At around 4 weeks she started getting lethargic and I got really worried. She was eating and drinking and not being bullied the whole time and was never ill. I think she just had failure to thrive. I read that as long as they aren't being bullied the only thing you can do with such chicks is to possibly supplement their vitamins or protein. I fed her a bit of hard boiled egg yolk and meal worms (only like three of the smallest size as she was very small) every day, and within a week she had improved and eventually grew to be a giiiiant rooster.

 

[mymilliefleur]

Quote: Some of them are just late bloomers.

 

[scflock]

I just hatched my first d'uccle this weekend. Is it just me, or are those the fastest chickens in the world from pip to hatch?

 

[mymilliefleur]

I just hatched my first d'uccle this weekend. Is it just me, or are those the fastest chickens in the world from pip to hatch?

I don't know, but my d'Uccles are very fast hatchers. My two most successful hatches have been with d'Uccles.