D'uccle Thread

[kristip]

Your porcelein is gorgeous!

Say I know were were chatting some genetics back a dozen or two pages... someone was just asking me what breeding woudl get you with a black mottled x mille or blue mille... would it just be a crazy mix? Would you only breed black mottled x black mottled?

well my 4 week old are going to be super friendly.. we just took them away from momma for the winter. She is starting to lose interest and left 3 of her 4 babies out of the nest box last night so I took them all in the garage with a heat lamp. So now the kids have easy access to them for the next few months until they are bigger! They are little, they will be fine in garage!

 

[FairLeaBantams]

Pictures from last week or so of how my babies look now. Their vulture hocks need to molt - in bad shape, all worn down, but their foot feathers are looking much better! A couple of the girls are pretty nice, I believe....except for that dratted missing toenail problem.

I think if my boy had more thick feathering on his feet, he'd be showable. He is the only porcelain rooster I have, so I think I should pair him with a really thick foot-feathered girl...but those two have the missing nails. He does not. Does anyone know if he will help make fully toe-nailed babies, or is the missing nail gene dominant?

I have been talking with a breeder about how to learn genetics, and there are a couple books I'm going to buy if I can find them inexpensively. I might (probably will) break down and buy them straight from the writer's website at full price so they get all the money. There are so many things to spend money on, it's hard to decide what takes precedence. I do have all of their basic needs covered, including heat in winter, so it seems ok to splurge on the fun breeding part of things....

I bred my full toed mille roo to a porcelain hen with the missing toe issue and 3 of the 4 babies had all their toes!

 

[FairLeaBantams]

Kristip,
If I had to guess, I would say top one is a roo and the rest are hens, but that is JUST a guess

 

[FairLeaBantams]

Have you guys/girls found that boys are born in the fall and girls in the spring? I'm getting nothing but roos....

Almost all my spring D'uccles were girls. Weird!

 

[hdowden]

i'm trying to figure out why my porcelain/lavender babies have such sparse middle toe feathering when both parents have thick feathering

 

[hdowden]

does anyone have pics of show mille's? both in cockerels/pullets and in hens/cocks?

 

[Sparky2133]

Awesome FairLeaBantams!!!!

 

[phoebs]

i think i have a porcelain chick but i ahve no porcelain hen or rooster!!! what do they look like when they are chicks??

 

[wegotchickens]

i'm trying to figure out why my porcelain/lavender babies have such sparse middle toe feathering when both parents have thick feathering

a) Could they just be really slow to come in? How old are the babies? Many of my lavs are almost fully mature before their middle toe feathers begin to come in.
b) Perfect parents do not equal perfect babies. That's why I tell people to breed what they have and keep the best of the chicks.

 

[coffeekittie]

i think i have a porcelain chick but i ahve no porcelain hen or rooster!!! what do they look like when they are chicks??

Mine were a sort of yellow with grayish points. I'm sorry, I don't have any pictures, but if you Google "Porcelain d'Uccle chicks" some good pics pop up