D'uccle Thread

[lilcrow]

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Gasp!!!

OMG!!! He takes my breath away. This just breaks my heart that I'm let my d'Uccle go, and won't be able to get any of your wonderful eggs.

Nancy

 

[car169mick]

Thanks Nancy for all the feedback. I understand what you mean about other reasons to cull, I just kind of made an assumption (which I know I shouldn't do). Trust me I have had to downsize several times as my other chickens are completely free-range and VERRRRY GOOD at hiding there eggs. Last spring I went from 18 to over 50 and was giving away chickens like no tomorrow! I have been reading as much as I can on the d' Uccle and looking at everyone else's pictures which really helps. Here are two more pictures of my other hen. She wasn't in the other picture. I think she may be a different color? I definitely think she is the prettiest of the three hens.

Whatever quality they may be, I am just excited to have them- they are so much fun and so curious. Thanks again for you help everyone!

 

[texasgal]

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Again I defer to the "experts" but I think she is a blue MF .. She's got blue on her tail and feet .. and one of mine colored like that .. it's more apparent once the MF pattern comes out ..

My GN(splash) doesn't have ANY blue or black on them..

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

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Again I defer to the "experts" but I think she is a blue MF .. She's got blue on her tail and feet .. and one of mine colored like that .. it's more apparent once the MF pattern comes out ..

My GN(splash) doesn't have ANY blue or black on them..

I think a Blue Mille Fluer is the answer. as mentioned you can see the blue in the foot feathering and in the tail.

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

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He is looking pretty. I love the lemon color.
Do you have any hens to go with him?
I am still working for a hen to go with mine. It should be in the F2 generation. So in a year or so.

 

[texasgal]

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He's sure MANLY looking in the bottom photo .. very handsome!!

Thanks Deb, he's filling out a LOT nicer than I expected, and you can see how much he's matured from the other pics posted a few pages back. Those were taken a couple months ago. Love your avatar...I got a soft spot for Favs as well

Thank you .. That was Shiner Bock. I currently have his sire "Big Daddy Bock" .. ironically I have a REALLY nice roo and NO fav hens right now ..

He doesn't seem to mind his non-fav girls though ..

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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Looking better every time you post!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

as for the bird above, it is mottled, and it does have blue for sure, but it's not a blue millie, it has no blue mottling to it at all. Looks similar to a blue tailed buff with light mottling to it. If millie, it would have the blue spots too. Beautiful though.
As for one page back on the GN to the lemon question. A lemon millie is a millie fluer color with the gold diluter "cream" added to it. If you bred a goldneck to it, you would get diluted goldnecks, as the dominate white gene in goldnecks would erase all the black colors on the lemon millie. Several back crosses would have to be done to the leomon, but you possibly could eventually get back to it, that dominate white can be a bugger to clean up though.
Would be best to breed lemon cream millies to normal millies. Should get F1 lemons that way with no dominate white issues.
With the goldneck, they would look similar to that mottled bird above that doesnt have any dark spots.

 

[acid_chipmunk]

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Thank you. I am still trying to figure all this out, and not having much luck with it. Is there any place that has a chart of what can be bred to what, or can you tell me?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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Thank you. I am still trying to figure all this out, and not having much luck with it. Is there any place that has a chart of what can be bred to what, or can you tell me?

There's always the chicken calculator

http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

you can play with it, or I can tell you what most crosses will be.
Some like the cream, on the calculator, you have to adjust them by the genetic codes (ie select millie) then before calculating the cross, you have to go to the gold inhibitor section under their picture, and selcet the cream gene to be added in.

I ran the GN cream cross
showed 1/2 goldneck and half normal millies but the millies will be split to lemon
Now breed those millies back to each other and you'll get 1/2 millies and half lemons the next time