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Hey everyone. I hope you all had a good holiday season. I just wanted to post some pics of the birds that I hatched from Teddi's eggs last June. I hatched more, but these are the three that I decided to keep. I also have a self-blue hen from 2010. Any feedback/critique would be welcome.


 
Boggy Bottom Bantams said:
yes Aunry is a blue mille, IF he has porcelain in him, it's not effecting his color, he'll just be what's called split for lavender. This is not visible..
What you are seeing is the effect of the blue gene on red, it washes it out and makes it paler (sort of like lavender does it, but not that extreme)


Fairleabantams,

Yes most likely that over preening from the hens. Some times you just get a hens that is obsessed with feather picking on the males.
I've had d'anvers pick the entire beard off roosters before. Looks just like what he has, just in the beard area. Also phoenix hens are the same way on the roos during the molt. They'll pick their new blood feathers in the tail to the point of destroying the tail, but that's a blood thing there, they like to eat it.

Some times this is a lack of protein in the feed that causes hens to do this, so check and be sure they are getting a good diet. Other times it's just a hen with OCD...Try to find out which one is doing it. If you can snip the tip of her top beak off. This will keep her from getting such a good grip on the feathers and often breaks her from doing it, otherwise, she'll never let him feather out nice.
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Thanks guys, I think it's one of my blue mottled hens. It's just funny because she leaves the other roos alone. Maybe this one just has tasty feathers:)
 
teddiliza said:
Oh they have nice fluffy beards! I think I know who the dad of the Mille girl is, he is a jerk, but has a nice beard, so I am interested to know how she turns out!
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shes a sweetheart right now comes to the door when i go to take care of them and they both like to jump on me and sit lol i think they are camrea shy though they run from it
 
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Hey guys wanted your opinion on a rough outline of a D'uccle hen I think I pulled it off pretty well, except the far away foot, I may re position the hen to hide that foot because I can't get the 2D effect of it right. *sigh* SO let me know what you think, I have some people who want me to make them shirts with a d'uccle on it. SO I come to the d'uccle owners for the critique. LOL
 
ScaredOfShadows said:
Hey guys wanted your opinion on a rough outline of a D'uccle hen I think I pulled it off pretty well, except the far away foot, I may re position the hen to hide that foot because I can't get the 2D effect of it right. *sigh* SO let me know what you think, I have some people who want me to make them shirts with a d'uccle on it. SO I come to the d'uccle owners for the critique. LOL
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I think it looks really good! I'm trying to draw some D'Uccles myself and the feet are definitely a challenge:)
 

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