D'uccle Breeding Program Update

 Since the last update Ive been busy selecting the chicks I'm going to keep, overall I'm looking for good combs,beards,feet,color and good body shape, so far these chicks have grown into very nice birds.  Above is my 3 color cross which I will be using to try and breed a chocolate colored Mille Fleur.

 This is one of the Mille Fleur roosters that I have chosen to keep for the future Mille breeding pen, he is good in most areas of the breed, with thickly feathered feet , thick beard, good comb and decent color.

 This Mille hen has been shaping up to look a lot like her mom Cookie Dough ,  although her foot feathering isn't as thick as I like she has good shape and a thick beard, I will pair her with a rooster that has thickly feathered feet.

 This is one of a few Porcelain chicks that hatched this year, she has a lot more blue than any of my Porcelain chicks, we will be breeding her to the Self blue Mottled below, what the color will be I'm not sure but my guess is a Self Blue Mottled with some cream lacing?.

 This is a comparison of 3rd and 4th generation Porcelains that shows the feather quality difference, the one on the left is a pure bred Porcelain with typical feather quality, the one on the right is 3/4 Porcelain 1/4 Mille Fleur with a lot of improvement in feather quality.

And this is the Self Blue surprise chick that I didn't expect, which we will be breeding to the porcelain hen above.

Chick update

 Spring is here and I've got lots of chicks hatching out and my other baby poultry growing very quickly so I thought I would update on them to, above are my Bronze turkey poults who are already as big as my bantams and are now outside in their own kennel.

 Here is Colonel Blue one of my Porcelain cockerels who is learning to crow but right now sounds like a  toy.

 Here is Glacier my other Porcelain cockerel who hatched out in January.

 Above are my two Mille Fleur's that hatched out last week and are being raised in a brooder on top of my incubator.

 And here are my new D'uccle chicks who are all pure breds.

Here's another photo of them in their nest with there mom Silver mist , most of them were hatched on the 28th of April the others were hatched out today on the 29th, theirs 4 Mille Fleur's and 1 Porcelain.

Sunglow the mille fleur

I thought I would do a post on the mille Fleur chick I hatched out. Right here are his parents named Jackhammer and Stacie.

This is Sun glow and my welsummer Americana cross

This is Sun glow at 3 months old . one day I went out to the pen saw that some dogs had busted in the pen and he had got out I hoped he would come back ,but the next day it snowed and I haven't seen him since , I am still a little sad but I now have 9 mille fleurs that I hope breed and show at the fairs.