D'uccle Thread

[Nimby Chickens]

Chickie'sMoma :

you first pic of the girl looks like she doesn't have much of a beard. could they have sent you some quail booted bantams instead?

edited to correct the breed! duh! too many similar belgain breeds to look up!

Sorry to derail a bit but you breed cuckoo Favs? Amazing! I never heard of it.

I'd take that question over to the Faverolles thread but I ticked off Peter Merlin accidentally and now am not welcome over there.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Booted Bantam, not d'Uccle. No beard or muffs....

 

[wegotchickens]

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The black ladies are awesome. Still waiting on a SQ roo to mature. So far there's been no one I was willing to keep, for various reasons.

Wil you be going to IN at the end of Oct for the Crossroads show? If so, I'd love to meet you! Maybe swap a MF roo?

 

[wegotchickens]

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"dew-clay" is what I heard. I have always said "dee us sol" but I know that's wrong...either way most people have no idea what I'm talking about when I tell them the breed of chicken I have. Just an "oh yeah?" with a confused look on their face lol.

Yeah, it is dew-clay! Or it is usually. There is a bit of a discrepancy because it's Belgian, not French. I do not actually know HOW the Belgians pronounce it, but you have to assume they are the experts.

I was told by the VP of the club that its 'da-OOcull'. But it doesn't matter, since no one EVER pronounces it the same way.

I usually say 'extreme featherfoot bantams' and you can see the little lightbulb go on in their heads....

On my d'Uccles the white is the last color to come in. It comes in all spread out and then slowly migrates to where it belongs. The black finishes packing into where it belongs after that. It's kind of cool, and has made me wih you could do a time-lapse of colors scooting through the feather the way they can capture a fern unrolling.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Wow, I did not know that the judges would differ from the book. I assume the judges you have won't be the same one at the Florida State Fair.

Judges travel quite a bit, so you may or may not get the same judges. When you enter your birds, if they have a judgse list posted you can let me know and we'll see. I had the same judges in TN and GA this year, and although in KY the birds themselves had a different judge I still saw one of the judges I always see at every TN show.

 

[joanie_maine]

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Booted Bantam, not d'Uccle. No beard or muffs....

Aha!

Now I understand!

Thanks for educating me!!!

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

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Sorry to derail a bit but you breed cuckoo Favs? Amazing! I never heard of it.

I'd take that question over to the Faverolles thread but I ticked off Peter Merlin accidentally and now am not welcome over there.

Peter just gets into little rants once in awhile. don't take him to harshly. i think he gets more questions he doesn't like from those that don't fully research the breed before getting their birds and thinking they have SQ stock when they have something that is less desirable and probably should have been culled from the flock for more space for better birds. he does give good advise when it comes to what to breed to get better color or quality. he's not on the boards very often and i think he's mostly on the Faverolles Fanciers site.

my project really hasn't taken off the way i had hoped it would with the cuckoo favs. my project boy is actually a cuckoo marans crossed with a fav and looks very faverolles with the cuckoo color, so i was hoping to cross back to one of my bantam black fav pullets when she was a little older. she's slightly large for a bantam and can take his weight better than my bantam hens. i lost a lot of my bantam salmon fav hens this winter and now i'm set back on getting started.

i'm hoping to get some bantam cuckoos started by crossing in a barred cochin roo. check out one of the breeders over in England who has cuckoo favs. they have beautiful cuckoos and ermines! (Keesmom is working on the ermine with some decent results)

we were also trying to create lavender favs by crossing in d'uccles but so far it hasn't worked as well. it seems to work better if more people had the black favs to help get the split lavender without so many color bleeding though or having to cross back to the salmon favs for many generations.

 

[chicklover16]

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Yeah, it is dew-clay! Or it is usually. There is a bit of a discrepancy because it's Belgian, not French. I do not actually know HOW the Belgians pronounce it, but you have to assume they are the experts.

I was told by the VP of the club that its 'da-OOcull'. But it doesn't matter, since no one EVER pronounces it the same way.

I usually say 'extreme featherfoot bantams' and you can see the little lightbulb go on in their heads....

On my d'Uccles the white is the last color to come in. It comes in all spread out and then slowly migrates to where it belongs. The black finishes packing into where it belongs after that. It's kind of cool, and has made me wih you could do a time-lapse of colors scooting through the feather the way they can capture a fern unrolling.

thanks everyone

the mystery is solved!

 

[NateinFL]

I had my birds on Craigslist for $2 each, then went down to $1, still no takers. These were all rejects. Then I put it in the Free section and had 6 emails in 5 minutes! There's a couple hens in there but the rest are cockerels, have way too many. Here are 13 mille fleur d'uccles that are going for free in less than 20 minutes.

 

[Jloeffler]

Does anyone here sell Mille fleur hatching egg or chicks? Won a bet with my husband today which means I have cate Blanche to get more birds and I am in love with those beautiful girls!