D'uccle Thread

[nothingbutbirds]

Yes, I do.  They aren't the greatest though.
Also its not the lighting. 

Here she is "observing" her food preparations. 

aww what a cutie hope she is all right and not blind
though i jad a dog that was blind and that is sorta what her eyes looked like

 

[chickenlover25]

the first pic looks more blue then the second....

 

[Phoenix Farms]

I would show them....just so I can live vicariously thru you.

I think I'm going to show them along with my RIR Bantam. Are D'uccles very good broody mothers? Do they lay well and what size and color eggs do they have?

 

[nothingbutbirds]

I think I'm going to show them along with my RIR Bantam. Are D'uccles very good broody mothers? Do they lay well and what size and color eggs do they have?

the hens are wonderful mothers
lay small white to creamy tinted

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Those eyes do look kind of bad, but I had a friesian mare that had a blue cast and she could see just fine. Maybe she couldn't....I don't know. She could never understand the human space bubble and how not to trample her human...

 

[babymakes6]

Sorry to say but your chick is blind.

See the cloudy spot in the eye? It looks a lot like a cataract.
One of my Silver Appleyards hatched that way this past spring.

 

[Margitas]

Somebody have some nice quality porcelan pair or trio for sale?

 

[chickenlover25]

is it bad that their hatched like that...

 

[mstricer]

Quote: Layena makes a crumble, just not in the PLUS yet. I think the chick start and grow should be fine.

Ok, I think I have a problem. One of my mottled D'uccle chicks that just (tuesday) hatched, from mstricer eggs, that has blue eyes. I have heard that when they have blue eyes, they are blind. I'm not sure if that is the case, but, she doesn't seem to know where the food or water is, and I have been feeding her by hand.
Are there any "tests" I can do? Or anything I can do to ensure she eats and drinks regularly? Thanks!

Sorry about this, I hope she isn't blind. I have not had that problem with any my hatches yet. So I don't know, if it would be heredity. I shipped 14 chicks to WA and I didn't notice that in those chicks. I hope it isn't heredity. It's been a long road to get to where I am. Did you have to help that one out? I ask, because I have a blind Marans that I helped out and she can only see shadows, she gets along fine. I kept her with the same group and they taught her where the food was and one was her buddy when they moved to the big coop. She is now 8 months old and does fine, some times looks lonely, but that is when everyone left to free range and was out of her ear shot. She flies straight up into the air if something startles her on the ground. But she does fine. I never treated her different. It is really easy to catch her and sometimes I stand in front of her waving my hand back in forth to see if she can see it, but no, only shadows. This was due to humidity, I believe. Sometimes right after they are hatched they appear to have that cloudness to their eyes. But I have not hatched any blind, but will be on the out look. I don't want to sell bad birds. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[mstricer]

Okay, this is really bothering me, so I went and checked out the 2 I hatched on Monday and their eyes look kinda like that but they run when I try to catch them and when I move my finger in front of them, they clearly thought I was trying to poke their eyes out. Give it a day or so to get it together. One of the kids I hatched was almost shrink wrapped and I thought for sure it wouldn't we able to walk, but I put it in a small bowl and it was able to get it's legs together hopped out and ran under the eco-glow. Love those for bantams and quail. Either way let me know. I want you to be happy and I will do my best to correct this.
Michele
Hey I almost have 5000 post alittle off topic but I just noticed.