Brown Red Mottled D’Uccles Project

[Egg Snatcher]

Update on the F1xF1 chicks! 2 weeks old Tuesday!
Mille Fleur chicks

Feathered feet- terrible
Muffs and Beard- good
Vulture Hocks- no

Feathered feet- ok, I like the feathering on the middle toe
Mutts and Beard- almost none
Vulture Hocks- no

Feathered feet- amazing, she (I hope) even has feathering on the middle toe!
Muffs and Beard- good
Vulture Hocks- yes
Keeper!

The Dot heads

This one look like she has wings by her eyes!
Feathered feet- amazing , she (I hope) also has feathering on the middle toe!
Muffs and Beard- needs work
Vulture Hocks- yes
Keeper!

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Here’s the little babies that hatched Friday! 2 days old!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

How in the original first post you got mottled chicks if only the mothers was mottled? Was the rooster split?

 

[Egg Snatcher]

And I thought I’d update you all on the last years F1 chicks

He wouldn’t hold still for his picture!

Both the little hens are broody, none of the chicks will be project chicks.

This is the hen born in 2020 who is also broody. None are project chicks.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

How in the original first post you got mottled chicks if only the mothers was mottled? Was the rooster split?

In the thread I asked how I got these chicks from Mille Fleur over brown red jap.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-breed-of-bantam-is-this.1393372/
This is what @Gray Farms said” Black from the Japanese is dominant over the Buff from the d'Uccle. And the motteling from the d'Uccle is also dominant. Mille Fleur x Brown Red will produce Black Mottled and some may have buff/red leakage.”

My rooster is purebred.

 

[AngBantamLuv]

Do you think that lighter chick (of the 2 day olds) might be chocolate or mauve mottled??? They are all SOOO BEAUTIFUL!! After my cochin (currently broody) and my polish (just grumpy) bit me today, I am wishing I had more d'uccles

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Do you think that lighter chick (of the 2 day olds) might be chocolate or mauve mottled??? They are all SOOO BEAUTIFUL!! After my cochin (currently broody) and my polish (just grumpy) bit me today, I am wishing I had more d'uccles

I don’t think chocolate. It feathers on its wings look white.

What color is mauve mottled?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

In the thread I asked how I got these chicks from Mille Fleur over brown red jap.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-breed-of-bantam-is-this.1393372/
This is what @Gray Farms said” Black from the Japanese is dominant over the Buff from the d'Uccle. And the motteling from the d'Uccle is also dominant. Mille Fleur x Brown Red will produce Black Mottled and some may have buff/red leakage.”

My rooster is purebred.

Mottling is recessive not dominant

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Mottling is recessive not dominant

Yes.

I asked also @pipdzipdnreadytogo a question about genetics for the project.
“
There is no singular Mille Fleur gene, what causes the pattern is the mottling gene over a gold Columbian pattern, so several genes are at work there. Mottling is recessive, so the first cross of a mottled bird to a not-mottled bird with no copies of the gene makes all not-mottled offspring who all carry one copy of mottling as your F1s.

Breeding the F1s together as you have, you should see about 1/4 mottled and 3/4 not-mottled in your F2s. Remember that these are the odds over every chick they could possibly produce, so if you've only hatched a few so far it can seem like these numbers are skewed. Unfortunately, part of the not-mottled offspring carry mottling and part do not, and it's impossible to say which do and don't without test crossing them to mottled birds and seeing if any of their offspring are mottled.”
Hope this answered your questions.

 

[AngBantamLuv]

Whats the chickies name that is in your profile pic? Just adorable. My white d'Uccle, Daisy, has a floppy comb like her, so cute

I think mauve is equivalent to a blue in a BBS.. just the chocolate version.. so some dilution. It'll be interesting to see how her color pans out as she gets bigger.