D'uccle Thread

[fuzzybutt love]

I put it in for the calendar,

we will see what happens.

Yay! I hope you get a spot. I think that would be so neat!

So............................... are you going to share your secret for getting them to sit still?

 

[wegotchickens]

If you really want to do this, I would use silkied seramas instead. No skin color, head vault or extra toes to fool with.
Also, the few chicks I hatched here where a d'Uccle crossed with a silkie were smooth feathered, only the toes, vault & skin seemed to cross.

most of yall know i want to work on a silkied d'uccle and i have been looking for good lines from both breeds but do yall think that i might be able to use hatchery silkies instead?

 

[hdowden]

If you really want to do this, I would use silkied seramas instead. No skin color, head vault or extra toes to fool with.
Also, the few chicks I hatched here where a d'Uccle crossed with a silkie were smooth feathered, only the toes, vault & skin seemed to cross.

first generation crosses will always be smooth feathered since it takes 2 copies of the silkie gene to create the silkie feathers. i already have 2 silkie d'uccle pullets just dont have enough birds to do crosses with right now. i also have birds that are 75% d'uccle and 25% silkie some have 5 toes but most have 4, some have the silkie comb but again more of them have singel combs, none of them have crest, now all of them still have black skin though.

now you should of also had crest on some of yours but i do know there is someone on here that has a first gen silkie/d'uccle cross that looks like a d'uccle all the way i would have to find that one again but this persons bird even lacks the blk skin

 

[CFellows]

Yay! I hope you get a spot. I think that would be so neat!

So............................... are you going to share your secret for getting them to sit still?

Lol!!! There is no secret, they don't hold still. I once had a photographer tell me that the secret to getting good pictures, is LOTS of pictures. So I think I must have taken about 50 pictures to get this one.

 

[Helen in the Desert]

I have never heard of silkie serama but that might be a good idea if you can get any. If you are going back to duccle conformation then hatchery silkies might be good. Also, if there is a silkie breeder in your area tell them you want the culls that don't have the extra toe, have white skin and no vault. You should be able to get some of the traits you don't want out of the stock right away and the breeder will have rehomed nonshow nonbreeder birds.

 

[JulieNKC]

I want to buy a standard of perfection, mostly for my d'uccles but also for my calls, would the apa standard or bantam standard be better? Is the standard for them the same in both?

 

[hdowden]

I have never heard of silkie serama but that might be a good idea if you can get any. If you are going back to duccle conformation then hatchery silkies might be good. Also, if there is a silkie breeder in your area tell them you want the culls that don't have the extra toe, have white skin and no vault. You should be able to get some of the traits you don't want out of the stock right away and the breeder will have rehomed nonshow nonbreeder birds.

yep there are silkied serama. most have said it would probably be easier to use silkies instead mainly because of size and the way both breeds carry themselves. i'm looking around for silkie breeders around here with even hatchery birds (the only time i wont mind hatchery stock in my breeding and i cant find any lol). there is one breeder that's about an hour away but her's are mixed together (color not breeds). i have been really wanting black since that should be the easiest to use and produce and i have thought about adding in lavender with that since black is used to enhance the lavender gene (or better lavender)

 

[Helen in the Desert]

yep there are silkied serama. most have said it would probably be easier to use silkies instead mainly because of size and the way both breeds carry themselves. i'm looking around for silkie breeders around here with even hatchery birds (the only time i wont mind hatchery stock in my breeding and i cant find any lol). there is one breeder that's about an hour away but her's are mixed together (color not breeds). i have been really wanting black since that should be the easiest to use and produce and i have thought about adding in lavender with that since black is used to enhance the lavender gene (or better lavender)

Too bad you are not closer. My friend has a black silkie boy with a single comb. She keeps him in the "boy" pen as he is a sweet bird.

 

[dsfrango]

Just an updated pic of my little off colored Mille..........running all stretched out chasing a moth or something

I wonder how nice she would have looked as a he......I should have tried for more before I sold all the possible moms(3) to this one.

 

[CFellows]

Just an updated pic of my little off colored Mille..........running all stretched out chasing a moth or something

I wonder how nice she would have looked as a he......I should have tried for more before I sold all the possible moms(3) to this one.

She is beautiful!! Do you know what colors the parents where? Not that I could try it anyway, I only have Milles.