Silver, Bearded Bantam? A D'uclle, perhaps? Anyone know? And what's the gender?

[malika621]

This... Is nugget. He/she isn't too nice. Always very skittish compared to my silkies and Barred Rock. It looks like a D'uccle to me. I got them a week old on April 12, so they are almost 16 weeks. Is this a D'uclle? If so, what color? And if not, then what do you think it is? I was told it was a 'purple' (whatever that means). She had to slightly bigger birds that looks like this one. I dunno. Also, what gender do you think it is (if possible?). If it's a roo then I can't keep it. Anyway, thank you for your help!

 

[Akrnaf2]

It is a white d'Uccle. it is a pullet, almost for 90%.
Can you please tell me what us the color of the shanks? I can't see.
The white d'Uccle should have white shanks.

 

[malika621]

All right... Well, she looks like she has light gray shanks. Here is another pic. She has feathers everywhere, lol.

 

[CrookedLaneGame]

I think you definitely have a D'uccle pullet. She looks kinda white in the first picture, but more like a Lavender or "self-blue" in the second. Lavender (or purple) is an actual color for these types of birds. Self-blue is a bit more technical, but the visual coloring is the same as Lavender. We have a Lavender D'uccle cockerel. He is 8wks old in these pics (he's the far right in the second pic).


He has always been a bit bigger than the other chickens, and when he's postured, his stance makes him much more vertical..like flat or straight chested, compared to the others. If you look at him in the right angle (usually from the front), almost seems as though he doesn't have the rest of a chicken body...as if he has a human silhouette, of a man wearing overalls.

I am new to the chicken world. I have learned a lot, and it can get crazy trying to distinguish the breed of a chicken. I think you have a Lavender d'uccle pullet.

PS -Oh! And your pullet is definitely bearded.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

I think you definitely have a D'uccle pullet. She looks kinda white in the first picture, but more like a Lavender or "self-blue" in the second. Lavender (or purple) is an actual color for these types of birds. Self-blue is a bit more technical, but the visual coloring is the same as Lavender. We have a Lavender D'uccle cockerel. He is 8wks old in these pics (he's the far right in the second pic). He has always been a bit bigger than the other chickens, and when he's postured, his stance makes him much more vertical..like flat or straight chested, compared to the others. If you look at him in the right angle (usually from the front), almost seems as though he doesn't have the rest of a chicken body...as if he has a human silhouette, of a man wearing overalls. I am new to the chicken world, but I have learned a lot, and I do believe you have the female version of my Lav.

Your bird actually looks like a Splash Cochin bantam since it has much more fluff than a D'uccle, doesn't have the right body type, and doesn't have a beard or muffs

 

[malika621]

Thank you so much! Im pretty new to the chicken world too, haha. This baby and 4 others are my first chickies. They are so much fun to watch grow up, but this little girl just doesnt like me too much. Shes very smart, but she hates for me to pick her up, and she keeps picking on my silkies. She was even like that as a chick. No matter how much I would love on her.

 

[CrookedLaneGame]

U kno...I was just starting to question that, once I looked more at our pic that we just posted! I thought...."He doesn't seem to have a beard!!?" I'm not totally convinced that he is a splash cochin...since as a baby up til now, he looked exactly like the all the d'uccle chicks we've compared him to....I didn't realize cochins came in the blue hues, but should of guessed (since seems most birds come in multitude of variations).

He came in a "Hatchery's Choice" straight run batch, so we didn't pick them. The hatchery sells both the d'uccle & splash cochin, so it's possible. I do have to say tho, he doesn't have a mottled type appearance, like it seems in the pics. He's all one tone of lavender. The tones are from when he was being picked on by our partridge cochins, they ripped out some of his feathers, so we tried that Blu-Kote, which actually only brought more attention to his wounds and permanently stained his feathers.

Anyways, thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep it in mind as he matures.


UPDATE: Upon further research, and analyzing him....I must agree, my little roo is not a d'uccle

. I feel kinda foolish, since I decided that was what he was, when he was a 3 day old chick, and didn't think much about it since. We have other variations of cochins, but he is significantly larger than them all, he has matured more quickly, since 8wks he's been crowing (he's 9wks now), and comparatively, his crown and waddles are way more advanced than the other cochin roo we have...so since he's maturing differently than my other cochins, I didn't think to question what we thought he was...until trying to help with this thread! Ironic that I went to answer a question and ended up with answering something I didn't realize needed asking!

Sidebar: We mail ordered all our chicks. The first batch (which he came in) there were 2 Mille Fleur chicks that were DOA. Our second batch we selected 3 Mille Fleur d'uccle. None of them survived the shipping either! I had to wonder that maybe d'uccle weren't hardy enough to make the long ship, so I removed them from the reship; And, it did get me thinking: "If all the d'uccle we ordered weren't able to survive the shipment (for whatever reason)...How did Lav make it?? What were the odds that the most excentric colored "d'uccle" would be our only survivor of that bred?" Hmmmm....Well! Guess we know why now! Cause he's a Cochin!

BACK TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION, THO:

Though after my chicken breed mistake, you may not trust my opinion

but I have spent several hours looking at various chicken breeds, especially the lavender d'uccle, that I am guessing that that is what you have. At 16wks, she is most definitely female, and she has a very full beard, so she is definitely bearded. I think her coloring is Lavender. . Apologies for semi hijacking your post, but I hope I was able to give you some assistance.

 

[Picklesquidly]

I would say a white/lavender D'uccle pullet. She's beautiful! Lucky you

 

[malika621]

Thank you very much! She is basking in the compliments

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

U kno...I was just starting to question that, once I looked more at our pic that we just posted!  I thought...."He doesn't seem to have a beard!!?" I'm not totally convinced that he is a splash cochin...since as a baby up til now, he looked exactly like the all the d'uccle chicks we've compared him to....but if he doesn't start growing a beard...then we will have to seriously rethink his bred.  He came in a "Hatchery's Choice" straight run batch, so we didn't pick them.  The hatchery sells both the d'uccle & splash cochin, so it's possible.  I do have to say tho, he doesn't have a mottled type appearance, like it seems in the pics.  He's all one tone of lavender. The tones are from when he was being picked on by our partridge cochins, they ripped out some of his feathers, so we tried that Blu-Kote, which actually only brought more attention to his wounds and permenantly stained his feathering.

Anyways, thanks for the suggestion.  I'll keep it in mind as he matures.

Splash colored birds' colors can range from almost white to very dark with lots of "spots." Another reason why it is probably a Cochin is that D'uccles have vulture hocks and yours has normal foot feathering