D'uccle Thread

[Jx2inNC]

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I appreciate it!
It is definitely a fun thing to watch take place. Enjoy it!

 

[teddiliza]

Well I was happy to see a veining starting in one of the eggs I set a few days ago after struggling with my incubator wanting to stay at 103 for 2 days! We had a 'warm weather' streak whick affected my indooor basement temps enough to keep the bator too warm. I've added 10 more eggs in there after my hens were loving the 'warm streak'. Not that I'm ready for hatching out chicks in the dead of winter. I'm hoping there's not any winter storm power losses. Last year I started too late, and when the spring poultry show and swaps came around I felt my birds were too young to sell at that time. So I figure I'll hatch a bunch and then have a few I can sell at the show.

 

[joanie_maine]

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I'd like to be hatching lots of eggs too.

It's so cold here that most eggs are not viable, plus they freeze if left in a nest overnight!

The roosters are doing their job, but......or is that "Cold Butt"

I practically have to stand with my hand under the hen to get a warm egg

Send warm streaks here!!!

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

I wont start hatching until Jan. although one silkie is bound and determined to be broody now. Thinking about bringing her in the house andputting eggs under her.
We have lost a good silkie from letting her go broody in Jan as she was not getting enough food into her to sustain her in the cold.
as you can see documented in the pictures there is a lot of change in both roo's and in hens as they mature from chicks to old hens.
I also do not like to cull to soon as you can loose a very good bird tht is just developing at a different rate but ends up looking awesome in the end.
I still have the project cockerals from this year and holding onto them through the winter just in case something happens to the main roo in each project.

Have a good Christmas everybody if I don't get a chance to say it again and happy hatching..

 

[hdowden]

my babies are 6 weeks old i cant wait till they get older and i start getting eggs

 

[GypsyChic]

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I completely understand, Teddi. Got the dozen from you, had lav & split lav silkies (others to), and a 3rd bator full of my D'uccles. I about crap when we got hit with that D@m F5 tornado, and then an F2 less then 6hrs after

Nothing, notta, out of electric, water...got a well but the pump wouldnt work

Either way it can be a terrible loss...So very glad your kido's are developing well. You'll be in my thoughts Lady...

 

[WestKnollAmy]

My babies from Teddi are growing up! I love to cuddle with them and give them meal worm treats. I had to move my meal worm tub that was the last one in my den, out to the living room with the others because these kids learned where they came from and started helping them selves every time I turned my back. That wasn't so bad but the vigorous scratching sent wheat bran all over the place! And that has eggs in it for more meal worms!
So now I bring them fresh meal worms in a small dish and have to watch my hand when I put it in the cage. They are little vultures for them! Anyone wanting to tame their chicks or chickens needs to have meal worms on hand. Soon I will get DH to take some photos of how they fly up all over me when I open their cage and especially how rowdy they get when they see a small bowl in my hand! Or maybe a video I can put on my d'Uccle page. I have a neat video on my meal worm page with some bantam Cochins going nuts over meal worms.

Yes, their little faces are dirty. They play in the water and food dish and like a slice of pumpkin or apple. No, I absolutely do not spoil them!

And for those wanting to see how wild chicks can be for meal worms scroll down this page to the bottom and view this video. They are not tiny chicks but youngsters and you can see how wild they are for meal worms.

http://www.westknollfarm.com/Meal-Worms.html

 

[GypsyChic]

Above post is considered 'henrasment'...lol, great poses

 

[WestKnollAmy]

 

[dsfrango]

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What kind of D'uccles are those? They look like a cream color...one of my first chickens ever was this color and young but she died a couple weeks after I got her She had feathered feet and I had no clue what kind she was back then