For foot feathers, as I've said before:
Shavings in the coop, sand in the run. Free-range under supervision.
Once every few weeks, give a suet birdseed block or the homemade equivalent (grease + oatmeal, here). Feed flockraiser or gamebird feed, with a higher protein level to feed those feathers.
Just got done talking to Karl Urshel for an hour (d'Uccle club pres). I learn SO MUCH every time that happens!!!
1) d'Uccle genetics are not entirely like other chicken's genetics. He predicted my breeding results more accurately than ANY "calculator" I've ever used.
2) The original d'Uccle club president brought booted bantam goldnecks into the US, as 6 chicks from Belgium in the cockpit of a plane, because he had a friend who was a pilot. Then he crossed them to d'Uccles to create the color in d'Uccles. Yes, you can goldneck through color-mixing, but goldneck breeds true and you get a better, more consistent quality from an actual goldneck breeding program.
3) I didn't ask about citron because I was more curious about mahogany mille fleur. I should have some of those as well as some brown reds in the spring. I have everything I need onsite already, and will only use d'Uccles to create them. Science Project, here I come!!!!! I think I may have a mahogany cockeral already....
Shavings in the coop, sand in the run. Free-range under supervision.
Once every few weeks, give a suet birdseed block or the homemade equivalent (grease + oatmeal, here). Feed flockraiser or gamebird feed, with a higher protein level to feed those feathers.
Just got done talking to Karl Urshel for an hour (d'Uccle club pres). I learn SO MUCH every time that happens!!!
1) d'Uccle genetics are not entirely like other chicken's genetics. He predicted my breeding results more accurately than ANY "calculator" I've ever used.
2) The original d'Uccle club president brought booted bantam goldnecks into the US, as 6 chicks from Belgium in the cockpit of a plane, because he had a friend who was a pilot. Then he crossed them to d'Uccles to create the color in d'Uccles. Yes, you can goldneck through color-mixing, but goldneck breeds true and you get a better, more consistent quality from an actual goldneck breeding program.
3) I didn't ask about citron because I was more curious about mahogany mille fleur. I should have some of those as well as some brown reds in the spring. I have everything I need onsite already, and will only use d'Uccles to create them. Science Project, here I come!!!!! I think I may have a mahogany cockeral already....
