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

[speckledhen]

Cetawin is one of the kindest folks I know, as well as one of the toughest. Watch out, JJ. I think she may just propagate our new breed, the Coch'anvers. It's, as Hulu says, an "eviler plot to take over the world" with the Hairy Legged Horde!

 

[Cetawin]

Muahahahahaha. Cyn stop it....I am evil, mean, soulless, heartless and ruthless the Hairy Legged Horde will rule the world with the Delaware. Muahahahahaha. I say, how is My Little Love? That adorable little man...

 

[speckledhen]

Yah, right. You're really awful. I can't even stand you, crazy woman.

Your Little Love is a goofball. He is all sweetness and light if someone else is getting the love and he wants some or if i have food in my hand. Otherwise, he wants to try some kung fu on me.


Aubrey, what's up with the head markings on Eyestripe Kid?


Ladyhawk, we euthanized the poor little one with the bad hock. It never drank from the waterer on its own, was being stepped on by the others and though it was eating from the feeder and jumping around, the hock was obviously painful. I'm sorry, but if this leg had been bent more straight underneath it, it may have been salvageable. Bent out to the side as it was, it was vulnerable to being stepped on all the time. It would never have been able to roost with others, either.

 

[Cetawin]

aaawww poor lil one. That is okay I know it was best or you would do it. I was hopeful that it could manage on its own because it was so active and mobile but if it cannot fend for itself, that is another story.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Thanks everybody

Cynthia, that'll just be a dark phase mille chick. Milles have partridge in them too, though they usually dont get the full on head stripe, I have had a few with it. If you look at a mille male, he has the duckwing wing triangle too, so it's in them... Just usually dont show too much. The porcelain at times will do the same thing, it'll just be yellow down with a faint blue lavender head wedge.

ETA

also the buff columbian patter is almost exactly the same as a bb red so that's in there too. Now if it was possible to have been bred to a non mottled mate, they should all look like that, would just be the columbian pattern showing

 

[speckledhen]

I had completely forgotten that one of the porcelains had that same head marking, Aubrey! Thanks!

 

[NanaKat]

yep, was my birthday Saturday, between that and the storm I was pretty tied up. Got about 8 inches and 2 confirmed tornados Saturday. All the tornados that were here started right by me, one under a mile, Thankfully they were all headed away from here, but really tore up some of my friends places just to the east of us. One town over is a mess, mobile homes in tree tops and tree tops in homes. The big one was a F3 So we got lucky. Just a few feet earlier and we'd be in bad shape. Lost a few chicks in the brooders due to a long power outage and all the damp air blowing around, that sucked but that was the worst that happened here

Chicken poops gone from the yard now though.

Happy Birthday, glad you are safe sorry about the chicks, and small miracles to appreciate.

Aubrey, what's up with the head markings on Eyestripe Kid?

we euthanized the poor little one with the bad hock. It never drank from the waterer on its own, was being stepped on by the others and the hock was obviously painful. it was vulnerable to being stepped on all the time. It would never have been able to roost with others, either.

Cyn

It is never easy.

 

[speckledhen]

Thank you, Kathryn. I hate this part so much. We just came off of losing Zane after caring for him for 4 years with a similar hock issue, though his was caused by an injury at about 18 weeks old and wasn't causing him any pain. This little one was eating okay on its own, but otherwise having a rough time of it. If it had been bent under him more forward and not to the side, if it had not been so painful for him, we'd have let him continue. It was really for the best in this case.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yea it sucks, but some times you have to look at it that way, what's best for it in the long run. So from time to time just come out malformed. Stinks but some time putting them down is the best. Even with hundreds a week here, I still hate doing it. Never had any do that at hatch though. Have had the injury thing though. Have had some hatch with wry neck over the years, poor little buggers just cant get their neck straight. and have had a few the the joints didnt form right, they arent ever able to actually stand though...
But that's just all part of nature.... still dont make it any easier though.

Thanks for all the concern and good wishes too yall. We got really lucky, that biggest one, the F3, started REALLY close to the house. Just found out it was the one that was close to us when it started, about .3 of a mile from here. Got lucky, it didnt touch down til it got about 8 miles from here, but my Lord it destroyed that little town that it hit. They had to close the roads into just to get all the mess cleaned up off them.
That's the biggest one I can remember around here. We get tons of them, but just the tiny mobile home eaters ( which I'm in) but nothing like this. Did have one cross the interstate in front of me a few months ago too. Forgot to mention that I think.
Was just a few hundred yards in front of us. Ate a bill board on one side crossed then ate another one. Aside from seeing them off shore fishing as water spouts, that was the only on land one I had ever seen in person. That's as close as I want to be to one though.
Thank God it was a horrible storm white rain, 1 " hail, real joy to get stuck in on I-75. But do to that we were all going about 15 or so. The people in front of me saw it and stopped and went to pointing at it out their window. Glad they did, you couldnt see it til the lighten lite it up... would a drove right into it otherwise..... good ol south Georgia weather, we even get tornadoes in winter here... come on hurricane season!!!

Anyway, that's enough of that

 

[speckledhen]

Have you heard from William? I PM'd him about a bird we'd been discussing and haven't heard; just clicked in my mind that he lives not far from you and he may have had damage from this storm as well.