D'uccle Thread

[paris_r]

more of the recent hatch-there are mille fleur leghorns and silkies in the shot too

 

[paris_r]

here are some photos of my best mille rooster, i have yet to use him in a breeding group. how good is his back/tail region (too sloped?). he is an absolute crap head but he is pretty. the first pic has too much sun so he looks brassier than he is. he is almost a year old now.

 

[paris_r]

a new development in my 'splash' d'uccle chicks. i was handling one of those that hatched this week and noticed its leg. i tried to wash it off but it is in the skin and some feathers on the area are also black. yes, camera is crappy-its my cell phone, i swear i will find the other soon. my question is -do splashes have pigment spots on their pale skin? this may be a one off, i wont know till more are hatched. and then i wont be able to guess about other genetic options for this phenotype until i breed them. this will be difficult as i will wait till they are a year old to breed them as they are highly susceptible to Marek's and I am trying to breed this out, I am told it takes 3 generations. i have had birds nearly a year old first show symptoms and die soon after, that is why I want to wait to breed them. I am hatching large numbers and also selling eggs to others to help develop this colour. it would be cool if these turned out to be paints instead of splashes! i just dont know the genes hiding behind the parents phenotypes. these, i believe, all come from my 'DMIX' breeding group which has two brown red roos (ideal hatchery) covering 5 golden necks (second generation bred by me from ideal stock), 2 black mottled and 2 white hens (all also from ideal).

 

[misfitmorgan]

One does not appear to have vulture hock feathers. Is this something else?
Thanks for looking, these little ones are too cute.

Buff Brahmas look almost exactly like Mille fleur chicks. Check the comb. Is it a single comb?

The chick cant be a buff brahma, it has a muff. Depending on breeding he may never have vulture hocks or they may grow in later...being hatchery stock sometimes you get things like that as well as the odd beard-less ones aka booted bantam. (yes i know is a different breed but people keep stubbornly telling me no beard somehow makes it another breed, i dont get it either

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a new set of chicks with the splash spots, not good pics i know but still cant find good camera, first some blacks-my mottleds have mottled beaks and feet too - i wonder if that is DQ?

Congrats Paris i'm glad your making good headway on your splash projects!!!

I don't think mottled beak/feet is a Dc for a mottled color, have to check but i dont recall it in the standard as a DQ.

 

[sissybug]

I need your help. Is this a boy or a girl? I thought it was a girl until now it's making a quacking noise like a duck!! I have had it for 10 weeks

 

[paris_r]

I need your help. Is this a boy or a girl? I thought it was a girl until now it's making a quacking noise like a duck!! I have had it for 10 weeks

'this'???

there is something missing here.......

 

[paris_r]

I need your help. Is this a boy or a girl? I thought it was a girl until now it's making a quacking noise like a duck!! I have had it for 10 weeks

quacking is just their voice changing. it is not an OBVIOUS rooster-but that means it could be a beta male. right now it looks female but ....i have had alpha females that had pretty big combs too. it sure is fluffy in the feat and beard!

 

[SilkiesForEver]

I need your help. Is this a boy or a girl? I thought it was a girl until now it's making a quacking noise like a duck!! I have had it for 10 weeks

That's a pullet!

 

[dsfrango]

Anyone here going to NE Bantam Club Spring Show in MA May 3rd?? Ill also be at Little Rhody on the 17th and in Maine on the 24th! I may have some chicks or hatching eggs available for my RI trip and/or ME if anyone is interested.

 

[Piperlu]

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The chick cant be a buff brahma, it has a muff. Depending on breeding he may never have vulture hocks or they may grow in later...being hatchery stock sometimes you get things like that as well as the odd beard-less ones aka booted bantam. (yes i know is a different breed but people keep stubbornly telling me no beard somehow makes it another breed, i dont get it either 

I am guessing booted bantam. She has a single comb. Thanks for the reply.

They are feathering out out a little more. Here are some more pics at 4 1/2 weeks. I am thinking only 1 cockerel at this point.
This is the booted bantam possibly pullet.

D'uccle just not sure what kind. Possible pullet.

All white D'uccle. Sweetest one of the bunch. Possible pullet.

Mille Fleur D'uccle that I am guessing is the cockerel.