D'Uccles, anyone have them???

[Kanchii]

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It depends on what your breeding for. Pets, or for show?

 

[SilkieCRZYness]

pets but i am putting alot of money into them and want the best for them and of them if you understand

 

[the simple life]

I just hatched 3 - 2 porcelain and 1 mille.
They are the funniest things I have ever seen. They are the tiniest chicks I have ever hatched but they are the spunkiest and the loudest.
One of them runs like a wind up toy. If you pick him up and then put him down he runs the length of the brooder, going along all sides in a perfect square. Its so funny to watch.
I definitely think one of the porcelains is male and one is female. They have totally different coloring and personalities.
The spunky loud one is almost totally silver and the other one is almost totally yellow with just two little stripes of silver on his back. That one is quiet and mellow.
The mille is not as puffy and is very quiet and a little more skittish but not in an extreme way.
Still though, LOUD. Its hysterical how loud they are for the size of a cotton ball. They wake me up every morning.
I wish I had more of these little fuzzballs.

 

[barnyard critters]

I have a pair mille de fleurs. Mine are quite flighty but I got them as adults. They will go broody but mine will only go broody if she is in a coop all the time.