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

[chicken boy sam]

Here is my d'anver when I first got her, 8 weeks old:

And about 3-4 months old:

About 6 months:

(At this fair she won grand champion junior

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And this summer:

Face close-Up

Wing

Hackles/Back

Breast/Hackle

Face

Enjoying some peach

ETA: I posted these because I'm so surprised of her changing!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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yep they were right
lavender cuckoo roo , white pullet. They look the same size in the pics, some can a be a tiny bit bigger, and of course males will be bigger than pullets.
They should top out in the 20 and 26 once range

 

[chowmaine]

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yep they were right
lavender cuckoo roo , white pullet. They look the same size in the pics, some can a be a tiny bit bigger, and of course males will be bigger than pullets.
They should top out in the 20 and 26 once range

Great! Thanks for the info! Sooo then, what will I get with these two or with him and a quail hen??? Curious!

Thanks again!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

well the lavender in him is recessive, and when using a double factored cuckoo ( one with 2 copies of barred, one from each parent) anything you breeding to will come out barred too.
So to the recessive white hen, you'd get black cuckoos split for lavender and recessive white.
Take the pullets back to the lav male and the ones from the next years cross should be half black cuckoos ( all spilt for lavender as well) and then you should get half lavender cuckoos, some of which should carry rec white too.

Same male to a quail is first time going to give you again all black cuckoo split for lavender

take the pullet back to the male and get the same results as above, half black cuckoo split for lavender and half lav cuckoo

or Take a new F1 male back to the quail and get some cool stuff. Most will be cuckoo or blacks, but a good percentage will be quail, barred quail, and them both split to lavender.
I recently saw some lavender quail from Belgium.. they look great, so they are on my to do list now too. Pretty much a yellowish bodied bird with lavender black zone on the quail pattern

 

[chowmaine]

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Whoa....way over my head I'll leave the breeding to the pros!

Thanks again for the interesting info, looking forward to getting more of these cuties!

 

[NanaKat]

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Would breedings of the best F1 roos to the best F1 pullets from the Lav cuckoo over the recessive white hen produce the following?
all cuckoo prodgeny with good body shape in
double factored lavendar
Lavendar split to recessive white
Black cuckoo
black cuckoo split to lavender and recessive white
Black split to lavendar
Black split to recessive white
Recessive white

Just checking to see if my understanding of lovebird genetics crosses over to the genetice of chickens.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep thats pretty much it
being two recessive colors are at work, lavender and rec white, you will get all those color, and all those colors split for lavender and split for rec. white.

chowmaine. It's not too bad on those
Just know when you use a barred male that came from both barred parents, ALL his offspring regaurdless of what it was crossed to will be barred

and on recissive colors like lavender, and rec white. That means both parents have to have those colors for it to be visible in the babies.
If only 1 parent has it, in you case say the lavender cuckoo has lavender. His babies will be split for lavender, meaning they carry it, but dont physically show it.
The baby can now pass it on too. So if he gets bred to another lavender, or another bird carrying lavender, some of the babies from them will pop up as lavenders too.

 

[speckledhen]

Uh, oh, Kathryn speaks genetics, too. I'm outmanned in that arena as well as the quilting arena by her!

J/K! So glad you joined us here!

White is one component that really confuses me-dominant, recessive, silver-based, etc, etc. Give me good old BBS and barred and I'm in my comfort zone, LOL. Getting there with mille fleur and porcelain as well. White?

I spend lots of time under that chair, don't I?

 

[Bantam Username]

So what would you get with a silver quail roo and a quail hen?
In plain talk please, although I find it all very interesting, I don't understand all the terminology and get confused easily.

Would I get chicks that are a mixture (and what would it look like) or would I get quail chicks and silver quail chicks?
Thanks in advance - I can't wait til the spring when I can get hatching Meep out some ladies.

Oh also, can anyone give me a list of all the D'anver colours there are? Cos eventually I'd like to get a whole selection.

 

[schuloger]

If I am not badly mistaken I think you will get all silver pullets and quail roosters( maybe some off color roos).

I think I had asked this questions before and entered it into the calculator and it seems to work out that way.

I believe either Aubrey or Nic... told me this in the past post.