d'uccles- which rooster to keep for breeding

[NateinFL]

We are writing at the same time I just posted again when you did! OK, so here's a question for you, what is the MOST you would ever pay for a top notch quality hen? Of course I would never tell anybody if I paid alot for one but just curiously, what can I expect to pay for babies and adults? If I go up there, I'd have to get several to make it worth the trip I'm willing to go to great lengths because its the only hobby I have and I might as well do it right, right?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

$50 a pair or a little better for show quality wouldnt be out of the question. I am not sure what those 2 are charging now a days. When I last got some, they were prices depending on quality startiung at $10 each and up from there. I think Ron sells eggs too at around $25 a dozen

 

[lilcrow]

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Gasp!!

OH MY GOD!

There's hope! I'm going to check it out! What do you think? Would you ever be interested?

Cochins and Mille Fleur d'Uccles Oh my!

 

[lilcrow]

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Well, I feel like an idiot.

I paid $40 a bird for mine plus shipping. That was straight across the board for the cochins and the d'Uccles, no difference in price, but in all honesty, I'm not at all sorry I did it. I still think my little guy is going to turn out to be well worth it. By the time spring gets here and he is a full grown roo, I think he's going to be something on the spectacular side. He's still a baby, so time will tell the story.
I suppose I could have too many hopes pinned on him, wouldn't be the first time I've done something like that.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Oh Lord no, me either, as long as the quality is there $40 each aint too terribly high, now if they dont end up in the showy end, it might be.. But we've all done it!
As for the imports, I'd be looking for d'anvers on my end...

 

[lilcrow]

You're not breeding the d'Uccles anymore are you?

 

[NateinFL]

I've wasted my money on worse things before, that's the way I look at it. If its your hobby, then you're going to spend a little more than the average person for that thing that makes you happy, you have to treat yourself, anyways that's the way I make myself feel better about purchases like that

I drive a crappy car right now I dont want to spend my money on a new car I'd rather have new, fancy chickens, makes sense to me!

 

[lilcrow]

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When I was a significantly younger woman, I spent some (didn't have a lot) money and WAY to much time and energy on things that no one had any business being into. I was focused on all the wrong things and it got me absolutely no where. I'm afraid I was completely dictated to by hormones, I guess. I can't figure out what else it could have been. Now that I've reached the age of "wisdom"

it is SO MUCH more peaceful. I finally feel like I am free to do the things I love. It's like my mind has been unchained. I don't know very many women who have or had this problem, actually they used to look at me like I had three heads; but it has been a plague all my life, and I am grateful to be shed of it.
Now it's just me and my animals, what bliss.

 

[FisherMOM]

I have started breeding d'uccles this year as well.. I would go with the cockerel if I were you.
His muffs and beard are great and his waddles are small. His color will still develop too.
If there weren't 10 inches of snow outside, I'd go get some recent pictures.
My chicks are 12 weeks old now and my pullets are turning out fairly well.. and definitely one cockerel, maybe 2 are.
We got our breeder rooster from a guy at fair.. he just gave him to my daughter because our hen has "great coloring" (so the judges have told us)

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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no, when to the d'anvers. Still have some here (black mottled), but not focused on breeding them.
And I hear yall on the treating yourself, thats exactly what I do, or how I look at it.
Blow it on what ya like, then, it's really not blown!