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

[lcw1995]

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My experience is don't even think it. I lost a full pen of birds that were in the middle pen, to a fox. all were due to be cleaned up for a show that weekend then moved inside the best birds of that variety I had raised to date and it was breed nationals. Now th ereally good ones go straight to conditioning pens and moved out to breeder pens after eveything else is over. I even set up indoor breeder pens for select trios and quads to really keep them safe.

yea im learning that as well
hate to loose the good ones

 

[Whittni]

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My experience is don't even think it. I lost a full pen of birds that were in the middle pen, to a fox. all were due to be cleaned up for a show that weekend then moved inside the best birds of that variety I had raised to date and it was breed nationals. Now th ereally good ones go straight to conditioning pens and moved out to breeder pens after eveything else is over. I even set up indoor breeder pens for select trios and quads to really keep them safe.

yea im learning that as well
hate to loose the good ones

That's so sad, I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Woo Hoo! I got my first mille egg today. Now I got that out of my system, I hate to hear about anyone loosing chickens.

jj

 

[speckledhen]

jj, congrats! How old are yours? I think mine have decided they will not lay eggs, not ever.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Don't know exactly. I bought them from Tom Sheperd. But they were hatched last summer. They started doing that squatting thing last week when you reach to pick them up.

jj

 

[speckledhen]

Mine were hatched before last summer and not one egg yet.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

I am sure they will lay when the days get a little longer. Mine are in pens in a building. Its dark when I get home from work so I turn the lights on to do the feeding. Then leave it on till about 8 or 8:30 so the can finish eating their treats (BOSS, scratch or meal worms depending on what I have). That ( longer hours of light) might have something to do with it.

jj

 

[dtran0268]

I got mine as days old from Aubrey in May and they give me eggs every two day since the end of October till now.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

haha

yall gonna tick the ol girl off bragging about the eggs...

They'll get there eventually Cynthia, JJ might be right too with the light thing he's doing. I've got about 5 pens laying now, but about Feb they should all start

 

[speckledhen]

I want eggs! Itty bitty pretty D'anver eggs! I even have six tiny wooden eggs in the nests that I spray painted with some glossy almond paint that was here at the house. They're almost the exact size. All they do is play around and keep losing them in the shavings. They must think they're playing D'Anver Football in there.