D'uccle Thread

[chicken crazed 1o1]

Ok and thank you for the complaments

 

[lilcrow]

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Yes, that is the one I was referring to. My chick that is showing the color doesn't have as much as the bird in that post, but it's younger and may color up more as it gets older.
Oh, and a new thing............I think I've got a white chick!! It stands out from the rest of the porcelains that it was hatched with by the very white down and it has a tiny black speck on the back of it's head and the base of the tail. Does porcelain ever produce white? Maybe it's just a strange beginning and it will go ahead and develop into the normal porcelain color.
Nancy

 

[danielle82]

I have 5 little roos and 1 lil pullet! they are a little over 2 months. At what age is a good one to make the "decision" on who to keep? I'm not sure how fast the d'uccles mature as far as getting along with another roo around the girls (girl haha, I can always a few of my smaller standard chickens if it helps to keep the peace) On mY orps Ive had some really slow maturers that took well over a year, a year and a half to see there "greatness", But so far the d'uccles seem to be pretty fast maturing?

 

[GypsyChic]

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Yes, that is the one I was referring to. My chick that is showing the color doesn't have as much as the bird in that post, but it's younger and may color up more as it gets older.
Oh, and a new thing............I think I've got a white chick!! It stands out from the rest of the porcelains that it was hatched with by the very white down and it has a tiny black speck on the back of it's head and the base of the tail. Does porcelain ever produce white? Maybe it's just a strange beginning and it will go ahead and develop into the normal porcelain color.
Nancy

Whites do happen in porc and other colors, but I 'believe' with your chick having a black spot on head and tail, it would not be a true white bird. Do you happen to have any pics of the baby so we could see it? I'm thinking Silver as that's what my chicks look like on occation, then they start showing the color a bit later

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

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Cetawin (love your screen name by the way), I just wanted to throw in something that you may not have thought of, the chick that you're planning to put down may be the product of an incubation issue and not a genetic problem. Crooked toes and other foot problems are very often caused by some kind of glitch during the development stage brought on by something with the incubator (a brief period of dryness, too hot or too cold), many unknown issues. I've seen it far too often with exotic parrots, they are VERY sensitive. I had to put down a little red and blue lorikeet when it was born with NO feet. Crooked toes I wouldn't have bothered with that, as long as they are not having problems and suffering because of it. Just MHO.
They're beautiful chicks.

As far as what you're getting in color...............very interesting. The first thought I had was your roo being split, but I would think the breeder would have said something about that. I've been breeding a lavender roo to a lav hen and a blue MF and from the blue MF I'm getting the same percentages that you are getting 2 black chicks to 1 lavender. So far I haven't seen any of these chicks at maturity, they are still too young. One of them does have some kind of bay or mahogany bleeding through on the upper breast just in front of the wing. It makes me think of another bird recent seen on here, it is black with a bay colored breast.
You have lovely chicks no matter what color they are.
Nancy

Nancy, is the bird with red/mahogany breast the one listed on pg.314, post #3132? Just curious if it was that hen or one of mine?
Hope everyone is doing well.

Lori, I pm'd you back but had to clean out my inbox, so get in touch when you have time hun.

CP, how are things going up your way?

Doug, any new news or babies yet? I'm anxious to hear how your citron/lemons are doing

They looked just like a Black Mille Fluer. I sold the ones I had already hatch to a friend on a different board inorder to help spread some of the color as he is highly interested in developing the color here. We were at a showing and breeding seminar with two APA judges who were exellent at explaining every detail and question in the morning during the "Classroom" part then during the afternoon when they critequed the birds that we brought the spent about 15 Mins per bird and we had a good diversity of breeds so it was educational to all. We learned a lot about what they were specifically looking for in the 2 Mille's we took.
Time Well Spent and My Daughter enjoyed it all and being the youngest participant she got a poultry book. They also raffled off a older SOP.

I have more eggs that should be hatching in the coming week. So we will see as they are under a Silkie.

 

[Titania]

hi, I have a question as to whether these are girls or boys. I hatched them from eggs and they are 10-11 weeks old. One is more red so I'm calling it "red" and the other is paler so I'm calling it "honey"

Here is honey:

here is red:

here are both, red in front and honey in back:

here are both, red on left and honey on right:

so what do y'all think? boys or girls? They look similar to me so I'm guessing they're the same sex. Also, I'm thinking they're cockerels since they're getting longer, curvy rump feathers. But, of course, d'uccles are kind of like that anyway.

thanks!!

 

[lilcrow]

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Yes, that is the one I was referring to. My chick that is showing the color doesn't have as much as the bird in that post, but it's younger and may color up more as it gets older.
Oh, and a new thing............I think I've got a white chick!! It stands out from the rest of the porcelains that it was hatched with by the very white down and it has a tiny black speck on the back of it's head and the base of the tail. Does porcelain ever produce white? Maybe it's just a strange beginning and it will go ahead and develop into the normal porcelain color.
Nancy

Whites do happen in porc and other colors, but I 'believe' with your chick having a black spot on head and tail, it would not be a true white bird. Do you happen to have any pics of the baby so we could see it? I'm thinking Silver as that's what my chicks look like on occation, then they start showing the color a bit later

OK, I got pics of white ? chick and also a pic of the chick with the bay bleading through or coming in.

Sorry this one is blurry, but I think you can get the perspective at least.

This is the front of the black chick that is showing some Mille Fleur color.

 

[Dewsetter]

Sorry for being thick but is a D'uccle the same as a Sablepoot?

 

[Cetawin]

ummm Not to my knowledge I believe they are related but different breeds. Interesting question to google though.

Okay apparently the Sableppot originates from The Netherlands and is listed as a Booted Bantam....the D'Uccle is a Belgian breed so....does that help?

 

[Dewsetter]

Yes thank you Cetawin that helps, they look so similar (or they do to my newbie eyes lol)