Beautiful birds! Thank you for sharing the pics with us!Took some pictures of my 9 & 14 week old, Belgian d'Anver chicks today. These guys are very addicting! I have extra cockerels that would make great show/showmanship birds for 4Hrs.
Chocolate Mottled (dun) and Mille Fleur pullets~
Black Mottled pullet~
Solid Khaki and Khaki Quail pullets~ Only known solid Khaki d'Anver according to Boggy Bottom Bantams!
Black & Black Mottled cockerels~
Mille Fluer cockerels and friends~
they are niceTook some pictures of my 9 & 14 week old, Belgian d'Anver chicks today. These guys are very addicting! I have extra cockerels that would make great show/showmanship birds for 4Hrs.
Chocolate Mottled (dun) and Mille Fleur pullets~
Black Mottled pullet~
Solid Khaki and Khaki Quail pullets~ Only known solid Khaki d'Anver according to Boggy Bottom Bantams!
Black & Black Mottled cockerels~
Mille Fluer cockerels and friends~
sorry to hear this. isn't this the second time this has happened with this incubator. May be time for a replacement
Hello!
I rarely get the opportunity to post, but enjoy catching up with this thread.
Anyone Sonoma County/ Napa County (or nearby) interested in a small flock of backyard, very dark egg layers, French Black Copper Marans/ Wheaten chicks?
The chicks are still hatching in the incubator as of now. There are 6 chicks, with more possibly on the way by tomorrow. (Possible up to 15.) I would like them all to go as a grouping ASAP, if possible.
The eggs were sold to us as French Black Copper Marans, so we were surprised when we peeked in the incubator window, and saw a blonde Wheaten chick! So, alas, in our breeding program, no matter how dark the eggs, we can not use this line… so I was hoping to find a happy new local home for them, rather than cull these VERY dark egg layers. They still have value for a nice home flock, to darken an egg basket, or for olive eggers. Very dark egg layers are not easy to come by in our area, and this line came from back east. Quality Cottage Hill and old Little Peddler lines are in the genetics. They are in the French style, having feathered shanks.
The chicks came from VERY dark eggs. Most approx. a terra-cotta red 7 level or slightly darker on the Marans scale (one or two is perhaps a six). The seller's hens are at a lighter time in their laying cycle right now (Most supposedly lay 8's with a few 9's.). So, when they start to lay eggs, these chicks could potentially lay extremely dark eggs, as their sires (large flock) came from solid 7's- 8's.
I emailed the seller, and she then explained there had been an exceptional Wheaten male added in for size and egg color many years ago as she wanted a very dark egg flock. The grandfather cock bird came from an egg so scary dark, it looked nearly black. She has worked with her birds for over 10 years, and the chicks seem vigorous and have good size.
Her flock in photos are extraordinarily beautiful. They have exceptional body type, nice color, and the hens copper hackle color. They would be excellent for a home flock that wants exceptional egg color, but I honestly cannot recommend breeding them to sell chickens, unless the Wheaten gene is mentioned. Value is in the dark egg color basket. should think some with correctly colored shanks/ coloring could have the ability to be shown.
I would just ask for the reasonable price originally paid for eggs. If anyone is interested, please PM me.
P.S. I would also give you the broken egg shells so you could compare the egg color hue and depth from the hens in the future.
Those are some nice eggs. I hope you find a home for the chicks.Hello!
I rarely get the opportunity to post, but enjoy catching up with this thread.
Anyone Sonoma County/ Napa County (or nearby) interested in a small flock of backyard, very dark egg layers, French Black Copper Marans/ Wheaten chicks?
The chicks are still hatching in the incubator as of now. There are 6 chicks, with more possibly on the way by tomorrow. (Possible up to 15.) I would like them all to go as a grouping ASAP, if possible.
The eggs were sold to us as French Black Copper Marans, so we were surprised when we peeked in the incubator window, and saw a blonde Wheaten chick! So, alas, in our breeding program, no matter how dark the eggs, we can not use this line… so I was hoping to find a happy new local home for them, rather than cull these VERY dark egg layers. They still have value for a nice home flock, to darken an egg basket, or for olive eggers. Very dark egg layers are not easy to come by in our area, and this line came from back east. Quality Cottage Hill and old Little Peddler lines are in the genetics. They are in the French style, having feathered shanks.
The chicks came from VERY dark eggs. Most approx. a terra-cotta red 7 level or slightly darker on the Marans scale (one or two is perhaps a six). The seller's hens are at a lighter time in their laying cycle right now (Most supposedly lay 8's with a few 9's.). So, when they start to lay eggs, these chicks could potentially lay extremely dark eggs, as their sires (large flock) came from solid 7's- 8's.
I emailed the seller, and she then explained there had been an exceptional Wheaten male added in for size and egg color many years ago as she wanted a very dark egg flock. The grandfather cock bird came from an egg so scary dark, it looked nearly black. She has worked with her birds for over 10 years, and the chicks seem vigorous and have good size.
Her flock in photos are extraordinarily beautiful. They have exceptional body type, nice color, and the hens copper hackle color. They would be excellent for a home flock that wants exceptional egg color, but I honestly cannot recommend breeding them to sell chickens, unless the Wheaten gene is mentioned. Value is in the dark egg color basket. should think some with correctly colored shanks/ coloring could have the ability to be shown.
I would just ask for the reasonable price originally paid for eggs. If anyone is interested, please PM me.
P.S. I would also give you the broken egg shells so you could compare the egg color hue and depth from the hens in the future.
