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@MenelausMontrose - Heidi is currently working on Mille Fleur Watermaal. A lot of them are in the project phase right now, a mixture of Mottled Watermaal and Mille Fleur d’Uccle. She will be breeding her F2s this year. I am not sure if she is going to keep her Mottled and Lavender mottled...

These are great before and after photos, thank you for sharing jess330

I can do assortments, for sure. And if you want me to pick, I can do it. And I can band the chicks and send along a key as well, so you know which varieties you have.

I typically do in the fall. Right now I only have a blue quail pullet (9 months old).

Or if you are a female and select a degree in biology you might spend the first half of your “career” life working temporary jobs and shifting gears every 6 months and then finding a new venue every 3-4 years. And sweating about where you might move, if you can take the chickens or afford them…...

I do need to create a new website. Webs changed ownership and deleted all the free websites hosted by them. I need to come up with something new. I’ve set up the breeding pens for 2024: 3 pens of quail and blue quail Watermaal (7 females that will produce blue quail, 5 for solid quail) 3...

This was my BV blue quail watermaal cockerel, I believe :)

Some pictures of some of the birds I've got right now in various pens (note the BBRs are not going to be available 2024, but will be 2025). `

I will be shipping hatching eggs and chicks again for 2024. Prices will be the same ( though I will need to increase soon due to higher feed costs- probably 2025). My prices for eggs are by the half dozen or dozen ($20 per half dozen or $40 per dozen) plus $20 shipping and handling per box...

So from what I’ve read, there are two categories of rumplessness: accidental and genetic. I have raised d’Anvers for a long time and have never (before 2023) hatched rumpless birds. My self blues I acquired in 2015 and started with just an hen and have interbred them with my blacks (which I have...

mbuzz, I am also thinking this is beard picking from another bird. Is she regrowing yet? Also, do you have a picture of her from when she had a beard? Beard picking happens with my d'Anvers too... pic below is of same hen and a pic of her as a pullet with a full beard. The birds do this as a...

I have noticed a lot of posts on beard picking on this forum, and I was hoping BYC members could help me acquired photos of different bearded breeds with and without their beards (whether from picking or molting). I am trying to see how many breeds have dewlaps and how the presence of a dewlap...

This does sound like feather picking. I have it happen in my d'Anvers all the time. Would you happen to have pictures that I could share on an article about beards? I have done a small section on beard picking, but I am also curious about the presence of a dewlap on birds with picked beards...

In this particular case, this hen was in with a single cock. There was no competition for nestboxes. The baldness was from the male mounting her. But the beardlessness was from social grooming. There is a genetic component to this behavior and not one that good management can 100% solve or...

I was unsure where to post this, actually. Is this the best forum? I raise d’Anvers and have had issues with beard picking from time to time. This makes it challenging to select my breeders properly. However, I have started to notice differences in the looseness of the skin around the face in...

@Amer I really liked the eyes on that male you had to cull. I completely understand about clearing out the birds with diseases though. You are right as well on many d’Anvers having beaks that are too long. Long heads, and faces seem to be pervasive in many of the Belgians for some reason. I’m...

Br is dominant red/ light eyes. br is recessive brown eyes. It is possible my phone auto corrected to a capital letter somewhere where it should not have been. Sorry if there was a typo. On another note, Sometimes the notation gets confusing because some characteristics are named after the...

I was not sure on the head streak. The first thing that came to mind was the stripe on the back of the head in chick down like on this BBR d’Anvers: So I looked up head streak in Hutt and in page 214 it did talk about the head streak in the wild type down. Some chicks apparently lack this...

Thanks for sharing. These are very green on the inner ring - how neat! This note inspired me to do some digging. I found an interesting article regarding this topic: Normal Eye Color in the Chicken Summary: The above article describes that there are three pigments involved in creating eyecolor...