Mille Fleur d'Uccle info needed please!

[Sonoran Silkies]

Black mille fleur? Never heard of it, but Lenny sure is handsome! Love that colouring.

If concerned about a single comb and freezing weather, consider a d'anvers. Very similar to d'uccles, but a rose comb.

 

[1Chick Magnet]

I live in NH and many people here keep D'uccles. I have bought some myself in the past few months. I have an insulated coop and a heet lamp so I hope they will do fine. would really hate to lose any!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I hadn't heard of them either, but I was 'put in my place' telling someone that they didn't exist. Apparently this person has been speaking with the head of the d'uccles club and it does exist, it's just new. I guess it's where the base is more black than a regular mille fleur? Something like that! But gumpsgirl's roo definitely is one! I don't think the little hen is.

She might be, and I believe chickygirl2's would be considered black MF as well.

ETA: The pullets that is.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Being "put in your place" for not knowing about an unrecognised colour that is being developed shouldn't happen. It is one thing to tell someone that their reasonable assumption is incorrect because something new is being developed; it is something else entirely to expect everyone to know already, and therefore to chastise them for not knowing.

 

[bantamF]

Hello,

Black Motteld is E/E, mo/mo !!

Mille fleur is e^b/e^b, Co/Co, mo/mo

There's no Black Mille fleur !!


Black Motteld!!

Mille fleur with Mh !!

 

[Krys109uk]

Well yes it is black mottled really.

I've seen an interesting theory about the genes involved in the beautiful tidy markings on the mille fleur Belgians. The markings on Belgians are much tidier, more regular, than the rather more random mille fleur pattern of Speckled Sussex or Jubilee Orpingtons.
It has been suggested that the reguar pattern could be a result of putting mottling onto otherwise spangled birds. i.e. eb/eb, Db-Ml-Pg/Db-Ml-Pg, mo/mo. Whereas the random pattern would be eb/eb, (or eWh/eWh), Co/Co, mo/mo (Mh/Mh).

 

[feather leg farms]

You should breed them they are so popular!

I had a trio and the one hen named Fancy would hop up on your arm from the ground on command.

The other hens name was Millie, and we had just gotten the roo from a sale and he died the next day or so.

R.I.P. All of my D'Uccles

I WANT MORE D'UCCLES!

 

[wwmicasa1]

These are my Black Mottled...

King Arthur

Miss Sparkle

I also raise Mille Fleur D'Uccle.

Cinnamon & Fiona

Lemon Drop

 

[1Chick Magnet]

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those are soooo beautiful!!!!!

 

[FisherMOM]

I just love my D'uccles. I plan to breed them soon! I think my rooster isn't into chicks though. hmmmm... Or he has never mated. He doesn't seem to know what to do. He just steps on them with one foot and looks at them funny when they squat.