What color is my D'uccle?

[PippyChicken]

Well both parents are Lavender but this one looks black so I'm not sure...

Maybe this pic is better..With the flash on

Wing

 

[Mahonri]

I'd wait for it to feather out more... hmm... but it does look black??????

 

[PippyChicken]

I will post some pictures when it gets older. i really don't know how the person before me got the colors.I got it from Mrs. Jaynie(jimnjay) who said she got them both from a lady up in Tennesee...

 

[nzpouter]

what other colours in the pen...

 

[PippyChicken]

Just 2 lavender D'uccles

 

[bigchicken2]

Lavender is a black mutation so people breed them to blacks. So sometimes lavenders are black.

 

[nzpouter]

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How long do you keep them together before keeping their eggs? Lavender is rec lav gene on black... you don't breed any other colour from mating of 2 lav birds.

 

[crazy chook]

Yes, I would have thought that it should be lav?

 

[PippyChicken]

I really wasn't trying tobreed them but I would like to. And they are always together. We just decided to try hatching them an see what we would get

 

[PippyChicken]

So if I breed lavender to lavender all I will get is black?