Porcelain d'Uccle Bantam Chicks

Porcelain d'Uccle Bantam Chicken

Porcelain d'Uccle Bantam Chickens are a beautifully colored variety of this Belgian bantam breed. The Belgian Bearded d'Uccle Bantam was developed in its namesake town of Uccle, Belgium. This is a true bantam breed, meaning it has no standard sized parent breed, and we offer many of the most popular varieties of this beautiful ornamental bantam chicken.

The Belgian Bearded d'Uccle Bantam has a few fancy feathering features that make it aesthetically appealing and rewarding to raise. The d'Uccle Bantams have full beards and muffs along with their feathered feet, and it's these features along with their beautiful color patterns that make this breed such a joy to own as well as a success at poultry shows.

For a bantam breed, the Belgian Bearded d'Uccle Chicken is a good layer of small bantam sized white eggs. These birds have excellent docile disposition and a tender personalities. They are not particularly cold hardy, but they bear confinement well and like most other bantam breeds are broody and make great mothers. You can't go wrong with the Belgian Bearded d'Uccle Bantam if you're looking for a sweet and showy backyard bird.

Porcelain d'Uccle Bantam Chicken Facts

Bearded d'Uccle Bantam Chickens have a close relative also developed in Belgium called the Booted Bantam. The Booted Bantam is essentially identical to the Bearded d'Uccle except that it lacks the beard and the muff.

Bearded d'Uccle Bantams are often refered to as "Millies" or "Mille Fleurs" because the Mille Fleur d'Uccle Bantam is by far the most popular, and many claim the most beautiful, of the d'Uccle Bantam varieties.