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

[ScratchesWithChickens]

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They're sooooo sweet aren't they? Our little Chippy is REALLY needy. She has mind control powers, I'm sure of it! We can't resist picking her up and she loves to be held ALL the time. She'll starve herself to hang out with us if we let her.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

That's awsome Guys,
Glad you all are loving them as much as I do, sounds like they all got great homes

Alex, finally got 2 gingers today, maybe they are starting back, will keep you posted

hcammack, sure hate you are having to down size, you were so happy to have them, that stinks, I'd be all over that blue cuckoo if you werent so far away,
Yall, that's the first ones ever created to my knowledge best jump on him!!

 

[hcammack]

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I am honored to have been able to have him for a short time he is beautiful and super friendly! I am going to Ohio this weekend to pickup/ and drop off birds and go to my Dad's college reunion I will be in Granville and Marysville OH. Then I will also be traveling to MA to drop off/ pick up birds on the 25th and 26th so I can bring them along and meet someone in those areas.

Henry

 

[KristenG]

I used to have some Blue Cuckoo d'Anvers but they all had red in their hackles and I just didn't have the space to keep breeding them to try and fix that. That was when I was working on getting Crele d'Anvers back in 2000 and they were a side product of a different goal (as were the Cuckoos, Brown Reds, Lemon Blues and Black Breasted Reds). I never did get the Crele color nailed, although I did get a lot of Barred Blue Quails (some were borderline creles but just didn't have enough black in the breast). I did notice that in the Blue Cuckoos I had the Blue gene seemed to deteriorate the clarity of the barring a bit so they were a bit more of a challenge. Then I graduated college and moved out of home and had to give up all my projects...

If only I had the space and the money! I was so close...I managed to keep one cuckoo hen from those breeding pens and that is the Cuckoo hen I have today. I just hatched a decent looking cockerel from her so I am excited about that.

I had a lot of fun creating different colors and becoming familiar with color genetics. However, my available space has always been small and new colors came at the price of the quality of your other varieties. Now that I live in town and have even smaller space I have had to restrain myself quite a bit. I have been working on getting my Watermaals back underway again though. I let go of my original Watermaals that I created and started all over again from scratch. I am on F3 generation and the birds are already looking soo promising!

Kristen

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Yep It's fun playing with these colors. Hate you had to get out of it Kristen.
I thought I had heard you were trying on the creles. I fortunately found the bb reds, so that should make it a bit easier to make them. Will know next season I guess.
I got luck and inherited a big farm, so no real space issue for me, just the expense of all the pens, and the time to watch and keep up with how's who in the projects.
Think it'll all be worth it in the long run.

Do you still have that blue silver quail roo in your pics?

 

[KristenG]

Yes I do- I just took that picture of him the day before I posted it. That is an older picture of the same cockerel I have posted on the d'Anver breed club webpage. I think he is about 7 months old in the picture here (and about 3 months old in the other picture I'm guessing). and I love him to death - he has the sweetest temperament with the ladies and is not afraid of being picked up or anything. He follows me around and runs off to his ladies to pass on any treat I give him. I call him Merlin because he is growing in a few long and curly eyebrow feathers just like a wizard, lol. I just set some eggs in the incubator from him. I know he is a bit young yet but he is looking so promising. I really like that his Blue color is relatively even with no mealiness and no dark flecking. And he barely has any reddish hue in his wings - which can be a big problem in the blue silver males, especially ones split for Quail, which he is. I can't wait to breed him to a Silver Quail female (when I get enough of those). I'm hoping for an even clearer Silver. My only disappointment in him is his comb - the short leader and the smooth rose. Oh well...

The black chicks that hatched from the eggs I bought from you are doing well. Only one of my white eggs that I set alongside them hatched so it is kinda funny to see five Black chicks and one white chick running around together.

Kristen

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

glad you finally got some out of them!

And yep, I've had my eye on Merlin ever since you posted him on the Club site, He is beautiful to me! Wanting to work on the blued ones myself (why I was asking

) But sounds like he's a keeper! Rare to get a d'anver roo that tame, I have about 30 kind a like that, most are big people likers though, hens are all little babies though...
If you get some good ones coming out of him, keep me in mind, I plan to start work on mine here in a month or so. Useing the silvers right now to work on silver duckwings, then the blues are next

 

[chicken boy sam]

I can't believe I haven't posted on this thread yet!!! I bought a d'anver quail pullet and she was 8 weeks old. Now she's 14 weeks old. I got her from a breeder at the CTPBS Show. Here's a few pics of her from when I first got her.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

welcome the thread!

Was begining to think everyone had forgot about it.
She's a nice looking little girl aint she!

Been busy myself this year, so far on color projects we now have a good start on the following new ones
buff columbian, porcelain (isabella) columbian, columbian, blue millies, lavender cuckoo, blue mottled, lavender mottled, dun mottled, dun cuckoo, crele, blue reds, blue cuckoo, lavender silver quail, bared silver quail, silver millies, brown reds, and a few others. If they'll keep laying, I have a few others I'd like to get F1 starts on this year too

 

[PrinceSandwich]

I finally got some more d'Anvers!! I posted a while ago about my d'anver rooster that died about a year ago.
But I got some more!

They are 6 weeks old. I'm pretty sure I have a trio. I'll post some pics later.
They are the quail color.