D'uccle Thread

[tiki244]

I just got a new computer so I wanted to share my D'Uccles


They are 2 years old and I hope they have babies this spring.

ETA: that white one is a serama, but the three are inseparable.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Is PB the sire of these chicks (w/exception to the white)?? Just curious as mine have all turned out Lemon, or have turned out to be cream/mottled. YES FROM BLACK babies

I might add ffrom colored blk babies (bicolors)

Nope, Orion is the daddy!!

So I get to see what happens with that split feather thing right away.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Beautiful Trio~

I miss having Millie Fleur D'uccles!

 

[LeBlackbird]

I should be getting lavenders this spring

I'm sooo excited, They'll be my first D'uccles...

 

[wegotchickens]

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I my case, if you have heritage birds, you ask who you bought them from and then trust their word on it.
Inbreeding is not the issue so much as brother-sister breeding is. That's where you reinforce negative traits in a big way. Always a concern when you make a trio from a set of eggs you got from a seller. Even if you know they have a nice-sized flock there is no guarantee you aren't breeding brother to sister. Does that make sense?

Right now I have my originals, which have lovely feathers but smallish spots.
My new birds are very dotty but their feet aren't so great. I have TNB in with them, and will keep all the offspring that have good feet and reasonable dots. A cockeral from their offspring will end up with TN's girls, eventually. I can tell TN is slowing down some (4 yrs old) and I'm hoping I can raise the cockeral in with them and have them get along until breeding season, when TN will retire and police pullet and teens for me. TNB's daughters will stay in that pen. TN's daughters from this year will stay in TN's pen.

We'll call the new boy TNC. TNC's offspring will have the pick of the cockerals going to take over TNB's girls. And the next year TND will take over TNB's place.

Have a lost you? It's not quite spiral breeding, but I think it will both reinforce their feet and give my birds more dots.

In this process, record keeping and marking of eggs will be a BIG deal, as is marking of chicks. I have spiral leg bands to help with this.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Cynthia, this is JMPO, so please dont take it to heart, it's observation of MY personal program, and no one elses. I no longer breed porc x lav...I've found there is a "TYPE" of lethal gene between the 2, and the chicks always seem to hatch poorly, and those who do survive just dont have the "vigerous" will to live that many of the other varieties have. I'm not saying DONT DO IT, just my personal experience has not been the best outcome when crossing the 2 "Diluted" colors. Not to mention the chiks that have survived, lack in both beard and shoulder feathering. Then again JMO hun.
Funny how you can GROCERY SHOP for your birds and it's always MORE than what you buy for yourself...I'm guilty!

I, too, have seen the lavender to prcelain lethal gene in action. Total failure to thrive in maost birds, no shoulder feathers in others. This was strictly d'Uccles though, and since the other bird is not a d'Uccle I wasn't sure if it was a factor.

I always recommend going with millies, if you have to chose

 

[Celtic Hill]

So my big duccle plans have been downsized, due to new projects.

but im still going to be breeding for nice birds with type. I really noticed this weekend the size of D'uccles, im so used to my JV birds and then being smaller. :]

 

[speckledhen]

I know Aubrey has mille fleur D'anvers, so maybe I can ask him to fill in with those. Thanks, guys.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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no no no, you're getting porcelains and that's it!!!!

Just kidding, you know I'll hook you up with what ever you want, got 21 colors breeding this year, so picking might just be your biggest problem.
Is there a color goal you have in mind, or just playing with them for enjoyment? Might could narrow it down a bit that way.
If just for fun, I'd go with the millies, they are beautiful to me, the ginger reds, dun quail, mottled, whites, all look really good too. Any you'll never go wrong with these bb red in them, some of the brightest colored bb's in any breed. Plan of getting new up dated pics on my d'anver thread as soon as we get soem decent not wet picture taking days.

Oh and I take personal offense to that south Georgia aint pretty comment!

At least we're close to the ocean....

come on and move this way though, would be nice having you within driving distance..

You're right though, those mountains sure are pretty aint they...

 

[spook]

wegotchickens, no, you did not confuse me, you can't have the credit for me sitting in a corner and drooling! LOL
Its interesting and I truly appreciate your taking the time to explain the breeding directions that you use. Thank you!

Can I ask any of you about the MD, brought this up earlier in this thread as it is one thing that has been challenging to my mille fluers. I was told by a ABA judge that my birds should be housed with a turkey as their droppings pass on a virus that prevents your offspring (any chicken to be honest) from contracting Mareks.
You do this instead of inoculations at 1st day old. So powdering your chicks feed with a small amount of dehydrated turkey droppings is the magical "cure". I also read this in the ABA 2010 yearbook. So, it must be something!

Just food for thought, I welcome your experience with this terrible problem that is world wide.

Again, Thank you wegotchickens- you made sense...where do you folks find your spiral bands? Also, with the closed bands, do you place them on your feather legged birds? I just feel it would create ingrown feathers. IWYO!