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Belgian d'Uccle
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Belgian d'Uccle is a bearded, booted true bantam from the Uccle district of Brussels, developed for ornamental plumage colours including famous Mille Fleur patterns. Birds are small, friendly garden fowl; culinary yield is limited to petite, tender portions when young stock is used. Whole roasted bantams, confit legs, or rich stocks make the most of the fine-boned carcass. The breed’s commercial role is exhibition and backyard poultry; food use is specialty or household rather than industrial meat production.
Also known as: Belgian d'Uccle, Belgian d'Uccle, Barbu d'Uccle, Barbu d'Uccle
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History
Belgian fancier Michel Van Gelder developed booted, bearded bantams at Uccle near Brussels from local and imported stock.
Early colour varieties, including Mille Fleur, were stabilised and shown as Belgian d'Uccle type.
American recognition of d'Uccle bantams spread the breed among New World exhibition breeders.
Post-war Belgian poultry clubs re-established standards for beard, vulture hocks, and boot feathering.
International bantam fancy diversified Porcelain, Mottled, and other d'Uccle colour lines worldwide.