D'Uccle's?

[Sylie]

My D'Uccle has been a lap chicken from the beginning. Here she is napping under my husband's beard.

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Awww! adorable! Maybe mine will snuggle like that some day!

 

[drumstick diva]

Just hope they don't become cat food - you can't trust cats

 

[Sylie]

Just hope they don't become cat food - you can't trust cats

Oh I know, I wouldn't trust any of my cats around them. I love my cats, don't get me wrong but yeah, at least one of them looks at them like "Ooooo! Chicken nuggets!"

 

[SueT]

I was curious how d'Uccle was said so I went to pronouncewiki and listened to a french person say it, she pronounces it like "doo cluh". There are apparently a lot of ways to say it though, the list that you can listen to is long lol. From what I read, Uccle is a town in Belgium and they speak french there so I listened to the French first.

There was a thread discussing this last year. One member said they asked a judge at a big poultry show something about the breed, using the proper French pronunciation, and the judge said, We pronounce it de-ookle.
Here's my little hen, Sunny

BTW, there's a D'Uccle thread...https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/duccle-thread.269521/

 

[Sylie]

There was a thread discussing this last year. One member said they asked a judge at a big poultry show something about the breed, using the proper French pronunciation, and the judge said, We pronounce it de-ookle.
Here's my little hen, Sunny
View attachment 1346717 BTW, there's a D'Uccle thread...https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/duccle-thread.269521/

Thank you for the link, I'll head over there and take a peek. As for pronunciation, there are a ton of ways I guess. I did listen to many of the other ways of saying it and de ookle is one. So I guess it doesn't matter how you say it as long as whomever you are saying it to knows what you are talking about haha!
Oh I wanted to say what a beautiful chicken yours is! I hope mine comes out that awesome. I am not really fond of the muffs but on yours, it makes her look like she is smiling lol

 

[SueT]

Thank you for the link, I'll head over there and take a peek. As for pronunciation, there are a ton of ways I guess. I did listen to many of the other ways of saying it and de ookle is one. So I guess it doesn't matter how you say it as long as whomever you are saying it to knows what you are talking about haha!
Oh I wanted to say what a beautiful chicken yours is! I hope mine comes out that awesome. I am not really fond of the muffs but on yours, it makes her look like she is smiling lol

Right, I just avoid saying D'Uccle! What if you saw an ad for one and had to call and ask about them, lol. BTW, the mille fleurs don't get their spots right away with their first feathers, it takes a few months, and they get more and more.
What a sweet gentle little girl Sunny is. Not at all like my other chickens, poor Sunny is at the bottom of the pecking order.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Mille Fleur D'uccle
Porcelain D'uccle

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Thank you for the link, I'll head over there and take a peek. As for pronunciation, there are a ton of ways I guess. I did listen to many of the other ways of saying it and de ookle is one. So I guess it doesn't matter how you say it as long as whomever you are saying it to knows what you are talking about haha!
Oh I wanted to say what a beautiful chicken yours is! I hope mine comes out that awesome. I am not really fond of the muffs but on yours, it makes her look like she is smiling lol

I just pronounce it d-uckl.

 

[Sylie]

Right, I just avoid saying D'Uccle! What if you saw an ad for one and had to call and ask about them, lol. BTW, the mille fleurs don't get their spots right away with their first feathers, it takes a few months, and they get more and more.
What a sweet gentle little girl Sunny is. Not at all like my other chickens, poor Sunny is at the bottom of the pecking order.

If I saw an ad I would say "I saw your ad for the chickens, I want one!" lol or if I was forced to say the word d'Uccle, I would say it however it came out and if they laugh at me and correct me, then so be it lol!
Oh, I did not know that about the spots, good info, thank you!
I'm sorry that such a beautiful girl is at the bottom of the pecking order but maybe she doesn't want to be at the top and is happy right where she is? Does she seem unhappy?

 

[Sylie]

Mille Fleur D'uccle
Porcelain D'uccle

Thank you!!