D'uccle Thread

[fuzzybutt love]

These chicks are EE's, but i have porcelain and regular millie du'ccles i could breed them with if they are something special.............


Top and right, the buff? boy and the ? girl, left is a gold



Pale one and peachy one


See, hard to catch with the lighting and crappy camera but there is a pale color there! The blue is very light also.


This guy looks more buff, but could be darker because i'm pretty sure it's a boy! ?

This spring i got this one, i helped him hatch and he lived for a few days but had a bacterial infection from a bad egg in the nest when my hen was brooding, so he didn't make it He was a pale color also, not like the browns and golds.



?????????????
So is there wonky genetics here, or do i just have some really pale buffs/ blues??

 

[coffeekittie]

Update on gold neck--this morning

I thought for sure he would be dead, but he wasn't this morning. I have him on a towel next to the baby box. When I went in to check on everybody, he was standing with his head hanging down, but he was able to lift it and give me a few noises. So I grabbed some vitamin e's, the Sav-a-chick mix and some ground up food and fed him by eyedropper. He was able to pick his head up somewhat, turn it, and eat. his head isn't as floppy as it was yesterday, but his poor tummy sure is hungry! His next treat in a half hour is some yogurt. yum yum!

Update on GN this afternoon--
Gave him a bath and kept feeding his mash. He is now in the back yard, standing and cleaning his feathers! He's twisting all different ways with his neck. He still requires a lot of naps and his head does get tired trying to hold it up, but it's staying up longer and longer. He is going to live!

It just goes to show you, the healing powers of these chickens is miraculous.
DON'T PUT THEM OUT OF THEIR MISERY RIGHT AWAY....THERE'S HOPE!

Even better than shock - just a painful sprain, apparently!

So happy for you two!

 

[coffeekittie]

These chicks are EE's, but i have porcelain and regular millie du'ccles i could breed them with if they are something special.............


Top and right, the buff? boy and the ? girl, left is a gold



Pale one and peachy one


See, hard to catch with the lighting and crappy camera but there is a pale color there! The blue is very light also.


This guy looks more buff, but could be darker because i'm pretty sure it's a boy! ?

This spring i got this one, i helped him hatch and he lived for a few days but had a bacterial infection from a bad egg in the nest when my hen was brooding, so he didn't make it He was a pale color also, not like the browns and golds.



?????????????
So is there wonky genetics here, or do i just have some really pale buffs/ blues??

Sorry I can't help with your genetics questions, but that last one, that didn't make it, GORGEOUS. I hope you get more like him.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Nope, parents dead.

So this is it for my pale colors, if they are unique i gotta know what to do next!
I don't have another silver roo, and i never did get his color nailed down except to know he was a silver (white and black chick) with gold leakage in the hackle and saddle. All this talk of lemon and cream dillute with silver genes got me confused and wondering .............

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Update on gold neck--this morning

I thought for sure he would be dead, but he wasn't this morning. I have him on a towel next to the baby box. When I went in to check on everybody, he was standing with his head hanging down, but he was able to lift it and give me a few noises. So I grabbed some vitamin e's, the Sav-a-chick mix and some ground up food and fed him by eyedropper. He was able to pick his head up somewhat, turn it, and eat. his head isn't as floppy as it was yesterday, but his poor tummy sure is hungry! His next treat in a half hour is some yogurt. yum yum!

Update on GN this afternoon--
Gave him a bath and kept feeding his mash. He is now in the back yard, standing and cleaning his feathers! He's twisting all different ways with his neck. He still requires a lot of naps and his head does get tired trying to hold it up, but it's staying up longer and longer. He is going to live!

It just goes to show you, the healing powers of these chickens is miraculous.
DON'T PUT THEM OUT OF THEIR MISERY RIGHT AWAY....THERE'S HOPE!

Hurrah!

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Nope, parents dead.

So this is it for my pale colors, if they are unique i gotta know what to do next!
I don't have another silver roo, and i never did get his color nailed down except to know he was a silver (white and black chick) with gold leakage in the hackle and saddle. All this talk of lemon and cream dillute with silver genes got me confused and wondering .............

Fuzzy---I would keep them all and see how they turn out. Chick down color often doesn't tell us how the adult feathers will come in. I've got a couple of chicks that are showing up with those pale and silver wing colors, but the feathers on the back are coming in mahogany. I guess it's just a waiting game when trying to do something new.

My injured roo is now eating and sleeping in the coop with the big boys. Other than a few awkward steps every now and then, his neck seems to be back to normal. And he is such a beautiful mahogany color for a gold neck.

 

[Stewzoo]

So confused again. Ok. I paired up 3 Millies. I put 6 eggs in the incubator. Over the weekend 2 hatched (early!!??). Those two chicks are pure black!

Will this black turn into mottled or will they be black as adults? Where does this color come from when mixing Millie with Millie? I am new to this breeding and am trying to do Millies for 4H showing. I can't seem to get one to turn Millie!

 

[hdowden]

So confused again. Ok. I paired up 3 Millies. I put 6 eggs in the incubator. Over the weekend 2 hatched (early!!??). Those two chicks are pure black!

Will this black turn into mottled or will they be black as adults? Where does this color come from when mixing Millie with Millie? I am new to this breeding and am trying to do Millies for 4H showing. I can't seem to get one to turn Millie!

some one is hiding some genes. don't know what they will be but i think you should have some sort of pattern since both parents are patterned birds

 

[mstricer]

So confused again. Ok. I paired up 3 Millies. I put 6 eggs in the incubator. Over the weekend 2 hatched (early!!??). Those two chicks are pure black!

Will this black turn into mottled or will they be black as adults? Where does this color come from when mixing Millie with Millie? I am new to this breeding and am trying to do Millies for 4H showing. I can't seem to get one to turn Millie!

That happened to me, I thought I was going to have black adults, turned out that I caught a Marans cockerel in their pen, sneaky, I had to start all over again. I now have 7 eggs saved since the 25 of Sept. and going to throw them and some OE eggs in bator tonight, It seems the best days to set will be the 3 - 5 of this month.

 

[Stewzoo]

WHERE are my spots??? Another hatch today...buttery yellow! I have an egg chirping and another with a peek hole cracked in it. We will see what these two bring.