D'uccle Thread

[RedBugPoultry]

I have a d'Uccle x Marans cross cute as button

I love these! I wonder how the little hen did not get squashed! I really do want to see how these turn out please keep us updated!

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

I think it will be many breeding of these "Citron/golden/silvers" before I offer the eggs for sale. First, I want to create as many as possible so I can pick from the best, then breed together. I will also probably switch out the roo that I bred F1 Silky/d'uccle cross to. It will be a while to make sure that type is fixed, although you guys bring up a good point about crop-outs, those little surprises. But we have those little surprises all the time, even breeding pure stock: Non-standard combs, eye wrong color, markings not correct. So it's what we are used to as breeders and we cull the non-standards. When I do sell my chicks, I let people know the reason I am releasing them to others, ie. not in my color scheme, wrong comb points, a mixed breed. I only sell my eggs when I know that those parents have results in good birds, because I have hatched out their chicks before for myself and are assured they breed show quality kids.

All in all, I love chickens!!!! Can watch these guys for hours, love keeping the chicks in my room and hearing their little purring noises at night, love watching them scramble when I put in a piece of spagetti and they run around with it like they've got the football and are going for the touchdown. I call it, "spagetti football'.

 

[kristip]

Lorilyn... thank you for clarifying colors... does anyone have pictures of day old gold neck or mille's? I think the black and white are pretty self explanatory. Although one does have a white beak and one has a dark beak... do they change colors as they grow also? The one with the light beak has one light colored toe also.
Can you wing sex them?

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Lorilyn... thank you for clarifying colors... does anyone have pictures of day old gold neck or mille's? I think the black and white are pretty self explanatory. Although one does have a white beak and one has a dark beak... do they change colors as they grow also? The one with the light beak has one light colored toe also.
Can you wing sex them?

I don't think I have pictures of day olds. Mille's have a tan head and some shade of gray on their body, can be darker or lighter. Gold necks have yellow head and lighter yellow body. Beaks tend to stay the same color, I think. Their was an articles of wing sexing them, it seems one feathers at same time and one has one line feather quicker than the other, but I can't remember which is which. Here's a site for that
http://animalsciences.missouri.edu/reprod/ReproTech/Feathersex/index.htm

 

[mstricer]

I don't have Golden Necks but I have some Millie and Mottled at a day old. Aren't they cute. I wish my girls would start laying again, by the looks of their coop they should be done molting, I opened the back to clean and got a face full of feathers, looks really warm.

 

[coffeekittie]

I have baby Golden Necks right here in front of me, and it's obvious what they are, with their yellow fluff and beaks, and their wings coming in gold and cream. Ok, I'm guessing that they are GNs, but that color variety was in the mix I ordered so....

ETA: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Millies/BRKMilleFleur.html has good pictures of chicks - check it out.

 

[coffeekittie]

Does anyone know how to reach Doug The Chicken Man? I need to talk to him. Thank you!

 

[kristip]

ok I need to get batteries for my camera, but guessing my 2 day old baby is either a golden neck or a porcelein. Gold colored with little tiny bit of darker markings on back. other two appear to be black mottled.

Ok genetics question
Porcelein roo x blue mille =
porcelein x mille =
porcelein x black mottled =
mille roo x blue mille =
mille roo x black mottled =


I dont know what is in their genetics. the guy I got them friend was keeping his mille lines very pure I know, but mixing some of the others for cool colors so not sure.

thanks guys... I need all the help I can get.

 

[coffeekittie]

My porcelain babies are yellow and grayish, if that helps...

 

[JulieNKC]

ok I need to get batteries for my camera, but guessing my 2 day old baby is either a golden neck or a porcelein. Gold colored with little tiny bit of darker markings on back. other two appear to be black mottled.

Ok genetics question
Porcelein roo x blue mille =blue mille and mille split to porcelain
porcelein x mille =mille split to porcelain
porcelein x black mottled =black mottled with red leakage split to lavender
mille roo x blue mille =mille and blue mille
mille roo x black mottled =black mottled with red leakage
Not 100% sure, but I think this is what you'd get

I dont know what is in their genetics. the guy I got them friend was keeping his mille lines very pure I know, but mixing some of the others for cool colors so not sure.

thanks guys... I need all the help I can get.