d'anver lovers,discuss the breed and post some pics! - Page 324

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Originally Posted by Boggy Bottom Bantams 

first massive hatch should start pipping tomorrow Night, will try to take pics when they are all done. From here it just keeps  adding up, close to 200 due next weekend, then the big 300+ order the following..... glad I just made a buncha new brooders...

 

These are from everything now though, not just d'anvers

Will be a lot of them, as well as phoenix in bantam and LF, houdans, sumatra, call ducks, creveies, and of course the ohiki. JJ I 'll give you what ever you want if you come down and help me build about 50 new bantam runs....

If I had mine done I would take you up on that offer, I get 5 weeks vacation. What can you tell me about the silver quail pic on page 322.
 

Hi Aubrey! What can you tell me about the roos on page 319 post 3187? He is the chick that you said "The other has a columbian or bb red pattern, but quail cheeks. Too dark to be a true bb red, but correct pattern.. will just have to wait and see on him, should be based in that duckwing or columbian pattern though." He's now all grow up with weird color.

The 5 week old Coch'Anver male in the last larger group of pictures I posted was crowing this morning. And he was doing a darn good job, too!

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Originally Posted by speckledhen 

The 5 week old Coch'Anver male in the last larger group of pictures I posted was crowing this morning. And he was doing a darn good job, too!

muahahahahaha  The drive home with the little darling will be fun.  :)
 

       The    eggs      have      arrived!!          

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Originally Posted by speckledhen 

The 5 week old Coch'Anver male in the last larger group of pictures I posted was crowing this morning. And he was doing a darn good job, too!

I love it when they first start crowing....some squak, some really get with it. 

Thought I'd post a picture of the 3 week old D'Anver I left with the broodies, which I believe is probably a pullet.

I took two male D'Anver chicks away from them, plus one male Coch'Anver, and put them in with the week olds a few days ago, but the male Coch'Anver was beating up on the Delaware chick three times his size, even drawing blood on its comb and sending it hiding in terror behind the waterer, so I grabbed his little bully butt and threw him back in with the broodies, who acted like he'd never left. So, Penny and Aimee have been moved into the broody pen underneath the brooder in the Orp coop with their three pullet chicks (plus the little lavender bully now). I moved Molly into their former broody cage in the storage area of the bantam coop with her lone teeny one. She ran outside and left it alone this morning, being a new mom and not being quite sure how to do this mama thing. Other than that, she's being a really good mom, but I was afraid until it got a little more steady on its feet, it might meet with harm in there, so she has privacy and a hassle-free environment for the time being.

Today, we removed Aimee from the chicks and Penny. Aimee was pecking on the Coch'Anver male, then I realized she was also pecking at the others, so she is coming out of her broody spell already at three weeks. Penny has them all to herself and still seems fine with it, though she will leave them to be picked up and babied herself.