D'uccle Thread

[hdowden]

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if they all are different colors then their parents have other genitics in their background besides pure mille such as maybe porclian. if they came from milli parents then try and getting some milli pullets and hatching some eggs and see what the chicks look like. theres nothing wrong with experimenting and possablly creating a new color that breeds true that everyone loves. over all you need to be the one thats happy with them. what colored hens do you have? once you get 10 post post some pics

 

[hdowden]

ok everyone question...when did yalls pullets start laying?

 

[babymakes6]

Mine were 5 1/2 months old-and they are from show stock.

 

[teddiliza]

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Sorry Holly, you're in for a long wait..... anywhere between 6-8 months for the porcelain girl, and probably 6 months for the mille.

I just hatched 7 chicks in my attempted winter hatch, definitely not a good fertility rate in the cold temps! Of course, I do have 8 more due to hatch next week, and then I added another dozen yesterday-- plus what I'll add today since it is a warmish day. But guess what? Out of the 7 that are hatched, they are all mille fleur looking. At least I know who's been slacking! Well, I was wanting more Mille's anyway! I think in the spring I am going to move one of my hens that has enough of the black patterning in with the hen and rooster who both have the most black, and hopefully this will correct the 'lack of black' problem. I don't want to disrupt the pecking order when they have the stress of the worst part of winter coming on.

So hopefully, out of this month's hatch, they will be old enough for me to tell who I need to sell at the spring poultry show, and who to keep for further assessment.

I uploaded some more chicken videos to youtube, including a video of my older porcelain breeding pen with 'Bo Diddly' as my favorite rooster. Unfortunately you will also have to listen to my nasal sounding little girl voice baby talking the chickens LOL. It's under my profile teddiliza. It also has a video of my speckled sussex. I will post chick pics this weekend!

 

[teddiliza]

Bo Diddly

This hen is saying, 'What did you name him? Huh? "

 

[mstricer]

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Teddi did you see the pic of my first generation of your eggs? I actually got more girls then boys out of my first hatch the second are only a couple days old. So far the division of milled to porcelain are even.

 

[FairLeaBantams]

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if they all are different colors then their parents have other genitics in their background besides pure mille such as maybe porclian. if they came from milli parents then try and getting some milli pullets and hatching some eggs and see what the chicks look like. theres nothing wrong with experimenting and possablly creating a new color that breeds true that everyone loves. over all you need to be the one thats happy with them. what colored hens do you have? once you get 10 post post some pics

I have 4 full sisters to the three roos mentioned above: a mille, 2 mottled blues, and a black mottled. The girls I would breed these boys to are unrelated and are a porcelain and what I think is called a goldnecked. I checked all their toes last night and the black mottled, porcelain and gold necked hens and all my roos are fine, but I was bummed to find ALL the other hens are missing both claws on their 3rd toes on both feet

 

[hdowden]

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if they all are different colors then their parents have other genitics in their background besides pure mille such as maybe porclian. if they came from milli parents then try and getting some milli pullets and hatching some eggs and see what the chicks look like. theres nothing wrong with experimenting and possablly creating a new color that breeds true that everyone loves. over all you need to be the one thats happy with them. what colored hens do you have? once you get 10 post post some pics

I have 4 full sisters to the three roos mentioned above: a mille, 2 mottled blues, and a black mottled. The girls I would breed these boys to are unrelated and are a porcelain and what I think is called a goldnecked. I checked all their toes last night and the black mottled, porcelain and gold necked hens and all my roos are fine, but I was bummed to find ALL the other hens are missing both claws on their 3rd toes on both feet

try breeding your mottleds to mottleds and see what you get (try to keep the same colors together ei blue mottled with blue mottled)

 

[hdowden]

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pretty

 

[hdowden]

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Sorry Holly, you're in for a long wait..... anywhere between 6-8 months for the porcelain girl, and probably 6 months for the mille.

I just hatched 7 chicks in my attempted winter hatch, definitely not a good fertility rate in the cold temps! Of course, I do have 8 more due to hatch next week, and then I added another dozen yesterday-- plus what I'll add today since it is a warmish day. But guess what? Out of the 7 that are hatched, they are all mille fleur looking. At least I know who's been slacking! Well, I was wanting more Mille's anyway! I think in the spring I am going to move one of my hens that has enough of the black patterning in with the hen and rooster who both have the most black, and hopefully this will correct the 'lack of black' problem. I don't want to disrupt the pecking order when they have the stress of the worst part of winter coming on.

So hopefully, out of this month's hatch, they will be old enough for me to tell who I need to sell at the spring poultry show, and who to keep for further assessment.

I uploaded some more chicken videos to youtube, including a video of my older porcelain breeding pen with 'Bo Diddly' as my favorite rooster. Unfortunately you will also have to listen to my nasal sounding little girl voice baby talking the chickens LOL. It's under my profile teddiliza. It also has a video of my speckled sussex. I will post chick pics this weekend!

thanks

trying to figure what month i can start to expect eggs from them and i cant wait. they will be 5 months starting april (and we have gotten snow in april 2 years in a row

why cant we get that during christmas? ) im gonna do more porcelain and millie when it gets a bit warmer and right now waiting eggcitedly to hear from misty(gypstchick) about some eggs this is me while i wait

lol