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

[Whittni]

4 out of 100?

 

[NanaKat]

The hacckle and saddle lacing is where most lack in color, that or the are too pale in body color. If you find a good male and his hackle is all black, pass on him, he will just mess up your color, etc etc....It's hard to find a just perfect all around quail any more. Hatcheries have done so much damage to them in their mass production methods, and few people know all the spots to look at any more... or care

Good luck with them, getting spkies back should be easy

here's a comb you should be looking for in roos

Nice looking roo!



Cetawin...looks like you chose nice birds!

 

[speckledhen]

Aimee laid her second egg today! Penny and Carly need to get their teeny bums in gear, too. I have a BR pullet clucking like a freight train out there and if she actually clamps down on a nest, those eggs are going underneath her.

ETA: I'll probably put my lav banty Cochin's eggs under there, too. Looks as if she'd probably be fertile by one of the porcelains-those are the only two I've seen successfully mate her...and she only started squatting for them within the last two weeks, after living with them for literally months. She's quite the diva.

 

[tinychicky]

yes, with either, if you find a good combed mate you'll have better odds at get correct combs, you still will get some from these too though, especially if the pullet shapes up a bit. It's always hard to tell on them because they are so tiny to start with. Dont think one contributes more than the other on comb though, they get a copy of it from each parent so it's a 50/50 thing there. Colorwsie you do look great, so if you do find a mate with a better comb, try to keep good color in it too.
The hacckle and saddle lacing is where most lack in color, that or the are too pale in body color. If you find a good male and his hackle is all black, pass on him, he will just mess up your color, etc etc....It's hard to find a just perfect all around quail any more. Hatcheries have done so much damage to them in their mass production methods, and few people know all the spots to look at any more... or care

Good luck with them, getting spkies back should be easy


here's a comb you should be looking for in roos

wow he's gorgeous! maybe i'll hatch a few eggs later in the year and see how the chicks turn out.
i'm not looking to become a full scale d'anvers breeder, but if i've got some nice birds i may as well make use of them

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

might as well. Nothing wrong with just having a few, to me they're like tater chips though...haha.. got close to 350 just in d'anver

Cynthia...see she was just constipated haha now that she's opened up, they are flying out of her..

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

he's an old schooler, doesnt do the computer, just his home phone is all I have. He travels all over the country to every show out there, so it's pretty hard to get him. I cant post his number here but I'll PM it to you

The best time I found to get ahold of Tom is about 10 or 10:30 am. But he did tell me in December he was getting a computer.

jj

 

[Cetawin]

might as well. Nothing wrong with just having a few, to me they're like tater chips though...haha.. got close to 350 just in d'anver

Cynthia...see she was just constipated haha now that she's opened up, they are flying out of her..

HA! She was ticked and refusing to lay. You see Cynthia dared to put the little princess in a coop with little men. Whoa be it for such a heinous crime!

 

[tinychicky]

well i'll be sure to post back if i hatch some eggs. thanks for your help!

 

[speckledhen]

When I went to check on everything before dark, Carly was digging in the nests while everyone else had gone to roost. She looked like she might be going to settle down to lay her first egg. Will check later on and see if it actually happened. Would be so cool!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I've noticed a lot of my birds lay just before they go to roost, so could very well be