Porcelain and Lavender in Same Breeding Pen?

[speckledhen]

Thanks so much for that site! Very good information. Seems that I would probably want to choose between lav and porcelain, though I've seen some cuckoo lavs that are out of this world gorgeous! Wonder if anyone has worked on creating a porcelain Ameraucana yet? Now, that would be the best of both worlds, bird and eggs.

 

[usschicago1]

If your going back and forth between d'uccle and d'anver i would do d'uccle ! My grandfarther has a millie trio and porcelian trio. They are lovely chickens! Actually more gentle than cochins in my opionion but 10X more skittish

 

[speckledhen]

Are they big fliers? Wondering if I'll have to put netting over the top of the pen if I get them.

 

[usschicago1]

Not really... unless they're spooked.

 

[speckledhen]

The only thing I don't like about the D'Anvers is the bull neck look. If you look at the hens, they look a bit like bantam Ameraucanas at first glance, though Ameraucanas don't have those colors (well, they do have Lavs now, I suppose, and I realize the D'Anvers have rose combs and Amer's have pea combs). Maybe I'd just like Ameraucanas for my bantam breed since I have LF already. Decisions, decisions!

What bantam breeds some in porcelain beside the D'Uccles and D'anvers?

 

[catwalk]

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Not quite, but if you can breed mottle into your lavenders in at least one dose it should work. First generation of lavender X porcelain (or porcelain X lavender) will produce no mottled birds, but all will be split for mottle. Breed the split mottle lavender birds to porcelain and you should get 50% birds who are lav/lav mo/mo and 50% lav/lav Mo+/mo. That doesn't take into account other genes needed for the mille fleur pattern.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071111220301/home.ezweb.com.au/~kazballea/belgians/genetics.htm will give you a lot of information on what you can mix together. I believe Henk hosts this on his site now, but I can't find the link

that's what I meant.

 

[fancbrd4me02]

I love my lavender and porcelain D'Uccles. They are way sweeter than the cochins, and mine are calm, too! I think it might depend on the strain you get. My porcelain hen "Snowball" loves people and lets you just pick her up anytime you want. Once picked up she just sits there very calm. if I could only have one color I would pick lavender.

 

[hinkjc]

Cyn, porcelain pyncheons are great. Sweet, timid and curious little birds. They are not flighty at all, but they do fly well. Ours can reach 8 foot easily to get to where they want to go, but most bantams breeds can. My bantam buff ameraucana easily flew that high and were mellow little birds too (well, the hens were..the roos, not so nice). I would recommend covering an aviary for them.

 

[speckledhen]

Thank you, Jody. I will plan on covering the pen when and if I get some. I do have the one banty Cochin, but she has never flown at all that I'm aware of, so I guess she spoiled me. I'll have to think about your pyncheons, too. I completely forgot you had the porcelains!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

You can get oebg in self blue (lavender) and also in porcelain.