D'uccle Thread

[GypsyChic]

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Doug, what will you be breeding your lemon boy to? Do you have lemon mille ladies or...??

 

[wegotchickens]

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Your guy was much older than mine. My project birds are about 3 months old.

I had some very strange goldneck bad luck lately. My high-strung BB BV gn roo killed the RB BV gn pullet. My older cream hen had some sort of episode. I suspect she choked on a shaving.
My young gn somehow sliced her chest open.

I sold the roo & my best butterscotch girl to Acid_Chipmonk. The butterscotch girl replaced the cream hen.


So I currently have a very sickly gn pullet trying to recover from a very messy cut. No idea how she got it, no one else in the pen is hurt. She's not doing well, though. Being gone for 48 hours meant she had no special care beyond neosporin on the cut. I've put some antibiotics in her water, and will wait and see how she does.


I took some eggs from the broody cream hen, that should've hatched 11/10, and put them in the bator on the 12th. They started hatching on the 14th. If I have any goldnecks, they will come from the chicks in the brooder. Two had to be put down for issues; I think the broody did a lazy job.
I have 4 very small dark gold chicks (probably from my RB/BV girl), 5 larger pale yellow chicks (probably from the cream girl) and I have 2 blue chicks from the lav girl in the same pen (gn x lav = blue. That surprised me).

I did NOT want to have chicks in the house all winter but I didn't want to lose those eggs after all the calamity.
DH seriously did not want chicks in the house, but after all the calamity he didn't fuss. He was just awfully suprised to have chicks on Sunday, since he never knew about the broody girl.

I have to admit though, that I am most fascinated by the 2 blue d'Uccle chicks. For a gn roo over gn hens to produce yellow chicks means dom white, right (the cream hen was his sister)? But the same roo, over a lav, produced blue babes. They are MUCH darker than the lav x lav chicks I've hatched out before.

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

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Doug, what will you be breeding your lemon boy to? Do you have lemon mille ladies or...??

currently he is in with 1 each of the following.
Black Mille, Blue Mille and a Splash/Goldneck.
This will produced split fo the lemon color which when put back to dad for the girls will make more lemons. If I understand the genetic thread we had going and the calculator.
So wi could end up with some simular to him and some Blue Lemon.

Will be interesting to see how it goes.

We will post pictures again as things progress in the spring.

 

[salunra]

Thanks for the welcome, folks.

I have already gotten a ton of information and it has been a delight. I am currently stalking one of my neighbors trying to catch them at home. They have little flock of bantams that I see out ranging in their yard, well, on the way to nationals I saw that tey have at least two millies. I am excited to have someone close by that I can talk to about these critters.

-Tiffany

edited: to fix typos. I need to stop typing with a toddler on my hip

 

[Gypsylion]

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Whoa... is that first roo part serama? Check out that tail carriage!

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currently he is in with 1 each of the following.
Black Mille, Blue Mille and a Splash/Goldneck.
This will produced split fo the lemon color which when put back to dad for the girls will make more lemons. If I understand the genetic thread we had going and the calculator.
So wi could end up with some simular to him and some Blue Lemon.

Will be interesting to see how it goes.

Oohhh... If you get any "blue lemon" chicks that you want to get rid of, let me know... Ottowa isn't too far away from Boston.

Thanks for the pics and info!

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

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Whoa... is that first roo part serama? Check out that tail carriage!

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currently he is in with 1 each of the following.
Black Mille, Blue Mille and a Splash/Goldneck.
This will produced split fo the lemon color which when put back to dad for the girls will make more lemons. If I understand the genetic thread we had going and the calculator.
So wi could end up with some simular to him and some Blue Lemon.

Will be interesting to see how it goes.

Oohhh... If you get any "blue lemon" chicks that you want to get rid of, let me know... Ottowa isn't too far away from Boston.

Thanks for the pics and info!

His tail is normally more upright. He was just walking on the roost and when he does that he puts it down a bit for balance. I will try to get a better one of his tail carrage.

 

[Gypsylion]

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His tail is normally more upright. He was just walking on the roost and when he does that he puts it down a bit for balance. I will try to get a better one of his tail carrage.

Haha... no worries. I was just kidding.

 

[acid_chipmunk]

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Your guy was much older than mine. My project birds are about 3 months old.

I had some very strange goldneck bad luck lately. My high-strung BB BV gn roo killed the RB BV gn pullet. My older cream hen had some sort of episode. I suspect she choked on a shaving.
My young gn somehow sliced her chest open.

I sold the roo & my best butterscotch girl to Acid_Chipmonk. The butterscotch girl replaced the cream hen.


So I currently have a very sickly gn pullet trying to recover from a very messy cut. No idea how she got it, no one else in the pen is hurt. She's not doing well, though. Being gone for 48 hours meant she had no special care beyond neosporin on the cut. I've put some antibiotics in her water, and will wait and see how she does.


I took some eggs from the broody cream hen, that should've hatched 11/10, and put them in the bator on the 12th. They started hatching on the 14th. If I have any goldnecks, they will come from the chicks in the brooder. Two had to be put down for issues; I think the broody did a lazy job.
I have 4 very small dark gold chicks (probably from my RB/BV girl), 5 larger pale yellow chicks (probably from the cream girl) and I have 2 blue chicks from the lav girl in the same pen (gn x lav = blue. That surprised me).

I did NOT want to have chicks in the house all winter but I didn't want to lose those eggs after all the calamity.
DH seriously did not want chicks in the house, but after all the calamity he didn't fuss. He was just awfully suprised to have chicks on Sunday, since he never knew about the broody girl.

I have to admit though, that I am most fascinated by the 2 blue d'Uccle chicks. For a gn roo over gn hens to produce yellow chicks means dom white, right (the cream hen was his sister)? But the same roo, over a lav, produced blue babes. They are MUCH darker than the lav x lav chicks I've hatched out before.

Lori, I would love to see pics of the blue babies. They sound adorable.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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we do

 

[acid_chipmunk]

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we do

If you have them, do you sell eggs?