D'uccle Thread

[FairLeaBantams]

Sometimes being raised together makes them all get along, but after 'puberty' I usually put all the girls in one pen and all the boys in another. I find that once the hormones kick in, the boys are gonna fight/ spar with one another. Sometimes one is dominant and the others submissive, and they get along. But I've had some that beat each other bloody.

My silkies can be just as bad. Falling over backwards seems to be normal for silkie roos. I think their blance is weird from all that head fluff. And they definitely can also fight if the dominant roo decides he doesn't like the others. Like people, I think they have to be judged on a case-by-case basis.

Interesting note: I donated some mf eggs to a local school science class. The babes went home with some students. One young man ended up with 3 roosters from his chicks. He has no hens at all, no hens in his area to tempt the roos or cause 'urges'. Two of the roos get along fine, but the third beats the daylights out of the other 2 all the time, and had to be penned up all alone. All three were raised together, handled the same from the start by their doting owner.

Interesting! Were the three roos from the same parents or were the eggs from different pairs?

 

[FairLeaBantams]

WestKnollAmy, those look really nice!!!

 

[hdowden]

heres my 4 babies. i was hoping for 3 pullets and 1 cockerel at the beginning but i think that has changed now :-( and i wont be able to keep them all

golden neck

golden neck

blue mille

mille

at this time if i were to take some more pics their combs would be pale (except for the golden neck cockerel)

 

[Moonchild]

Thank you, Moonchild. He will be a nice out cross to my non related girls.



His new wives in their night time cage.



They make such a lovely little flock!

SO haPPPy Jasper has his own ladies!!!

 

[Lady Chickadee]

I have chicks hatching from my trio of d'Uccles(2 black hens with a white roo). 15 went into lockdown and 4 have hatched and a lot are trying to hatch. Its day 20 by the way. So far I have 3 that are white with either a bunch of black spots or big black spots. I also have one that is blue. I'll take pictures as soon as they are dried off.

 

[TexasChick09]

I took some new photos of my MF this past weekend when I put 3 pens of youngsters out in the pasture in a dog kennel with a tarp over it. They loved it! This is girl is pretty sweet and so funny. She and the Silkies she is with like to do drive grabbings of anything you have in your hand, then run like crazy around the pen with it.

My Porcelain is still tiny and a bit scared, so no pictures of he/she yet.

 

[foureyeddragon]

Finally got a picture of my d'uccle hen. She always runs into the coop when I come out to see them. I came armed with bread this time and she thought about it long enough for me to grab a picture before she went and hid in the coop.

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

 

[NateinFL]

Nice mille hen Mary is she raising foster babies?

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

Nice mille hen Mary is she raising foster babies?

Yep... she went broody and I poked my whole bantam egg collection for one day, under her to sit on. She hatched all 8 of them. Such a little trooper and a wonderful mother hen.