D'uccle Thread

[wegotchickens]

GC, the toes of the silver milles have better feathering than the toes of the regular milles, so far. Hocks and feet are coming in good. The midget doesn't have much beard/cheek fluff, but the other 3 are looking good so far.
Meant to get pics but Mom is coming to visit (had to prep) and DD was fighting with DH (her stepdad) so I didn't get any pics made. And may not this weekend, depending on how things are going, after adding Mom to an already volatile mix of people

If I need to escape this weekend I'll take pics

 

[GypsyChic]

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Toe feathering is good. I'll have to look at the beard again after work. It is black with a white belly.

Not trying to cut in line

....my little black chick has great foot/leg feathering, but not much in the beard department. The yellow chick has more beard and sparce foot/leg. Hope that helps.

Thanks CP, that helps me alot

I want to keep track of these guys so I know what others are experiencing with these "TRIAL/PROJECT" colors.
AC, your chick may very well end up a lemon if it's showing white, or it could end up being a silver on black. Please keep me posted.

WGC, glad to know the silvers are good to go...that made my day lady!!!

 

[Carolynspeeps]

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Not trying to cut in line

....my little black chick has great foot/leg feathering, but not much in the beard department. The yellow chick has more beard and sparce foot/leg. Hope that helps.

Thanks CP, that helps me alot

I want to keep track of these guys so I know what others are experiencing with these "TRIAL/PROJECT" colors.
AC, your chick may very well end up a lemon if it's showing white, or it could end up being a silver on black. Please keep me posted.

WGC, glad to know the silvers are good to go...that made my day lady!!!

GC...my black has white wing tips and a white spot on its head..lemon?

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

Hey GC you just know that if you were putting in your lemon boy in a photo contest I would Just have to enter Citron.

You can't keep all of the drooling

to yourself yet.

 

[GypsyChic]

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Thanks CP, that helps me alot

I want to keep track of these guys so I know what others are experiencing with these "TRIAL/PROJECT" colors.
AC, your chick may very well end up a lemon if it's showing white, or it could end up being a silver on black. Please keep me posted.

WGC, glad to know the silvers are good to go...that made my day lady!!!

GC...my black has white wing tips and a white spot on its head..lemon?

That would be my guess as of right now. Keep an eye on him/her and let me know how it matures

 

[GypsyChic]

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LMBO

Of course NOT Doug ,,,wouldnt DREAM of it ( snicker) ...Citron is a gorgeous boy...he diserves to WIN

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

I just cant wait to start to get eggs from the girls in with him.
Then I can eventually get F2 which will be lemon hopefully pullets.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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Misty, sorry havent been on this one in a while, yall add to many pages to quick to it, LOL

Yall are right, the silver and lemon are very similar, all they are is millie fluers, one having the cream gene, one having a silver gene (instead of the normal gold)
Other than that, they are just millie fluers.

I havent had the pleasure of working with either in my d'anvers just yet, but am half way there on my silvers.
The silver is much harder to finish to me than the cream.
Cream bred to a millie will give you all millies, which will be split to lemon cream.
Back breed those, and you will get 50% lemon millies and 50% millies. Froim there, they are done.

Same cant be said with the silvers, from the programs I have run it seems that yes hens are a much more common out come than roos on that color.
Depending on what you use, it can take years. I have been using my silver quail over the millies and should have some correct ones this year after 1 more cross.
Anything with the silver gene can beused to get them though, silver duckwings would be the best though.

Hecks calculator is spot on on every single cross I have used though, you can easily predict your out come, and for me with over 30 colors it has been 99% accurate so far.
For the diluters, you just have to add them in. Like for silver millies, punch in millies, then go down to the silver gene. It will be showing GOLD, click on it, it will give you the option for the silver, once you have it in, the calculation on your various crosses will show you the accurate out come of them.

Same with the lemons, whic they are actually on there now, listed as lemon porcelain. But you can use any color on there, add the lemon "cream " gene to it, and go on with your calculation.

I ran various crosses of millie x silver millie, silver millie x cream millie, millie x cream...there were a lot of various results, but the easiest was the lemon to millie, Like I said they will just all be lemon splits all the time.

The silver crossed produced yes mainly pullets. So there MAY be some for of sex link there, but I doubt it.
Contine to cross the silver pullets over the millie or lemon males you get and they'll eventuall pop up.
Once you have a male, you're good to go.

Like I said, I have done them just yet, but am working on the silver, and with Misty's help the cream will be started this year.
Once I get some of my own, I can tell yall a little more about them.

Good luck to all working on both!

Thanks Aubrey, I appreciate you coming to the rescue

I have the silver roo now, which I thought was a pullet, but have some older babies I will put him with, as well as the lemons into their group soon. Will also have enough lemons to send you soon as it warms up a bit more. Maybe we can just SWAP and help us both out

That'll work with me.
If you did get a male silver, you've got them whipped, breed him to normal millies, I wouldnt put him to cream, that'll be a usless gene for him, but off normals you should easily get some pullets off them the first time
Good luck, They must have come from Ron Tallents stock, he's the only one I know of with silver millies ?

 

[GypsyChic]

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Thanks Aubrey, I appreciate you coming to the rescue

I have the silver roo now, which I thought was a pullet, but have some older babies I will put him with, as well as the lemons into their group soon. Will also have enough lemons to send you soon as it warms up a bit more. Maybe we can just SWAP and help us both out

That'll work with me.
If you did get a male silver, you've got them whipped, breed him to normal millies, I wouldnt put him to cream, that'll be a usless gene for him, but off normals you should easily get some pullets off them the first time
Good luck, They must have come from Ron Tallents stock, he's the only one I know of with silver millies ?

Yep, it's a silver boy...plan to keep him w/my gals and the younger mille girls also. No lemon-silver cross here

I know Ron but I made these birds all on my own and not with anyone elses stock. Ron has supurb birds though.

Misty

 

[shay20]

Hello just chimeing in saying my frizzle duccle project is comeing out great my freind darbella took a awsome of one of my frizzle milli duccle chicks and will post it up for me