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

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Hi everyone,
I got these off CL yesterday for free! I think it's 2 boys/1 girl....



Boy 2



and a girl, I hope!


I ended up getting 3 Quail, 2 Porcelain DUccles (but I think they are both guys) 2 Mottled Cochins (also both guys) and a pair of Bantam EE pullets. I took all the boys just to help her out for giving me a pair of D'Anvers and the 2 bantie EE's for free!
I'm going to try and rehome the Porcelain Boys...and one of the D'anver boys and of the two Mottled Cochin boys, one will stay and one will go.

BBB- It's so weird how I was just asking you about them, and then saw some on CL for free...granted they are hatchery from McMurray but it's a start!

these hatchery chicks can be tricky, they dont follow the rules.
The first two look male in the head, but they shouldnt have a black back, should be a lot of that gold/buff in there, back looks hen ish

last one looks girl in the face, but back is showing more male coloring with the red/orange in the shoulders....


I honestly cant say right now

going off comb and face and ignoring color.
I'd say 1 and 2 are males and 3 is a pullet

 

[NYRIR]

BBB-Lol...I should have figured something like that with hatchery stock!

Anyway, it will be interesting to see then. I am hoping to get more hens from someone in Ct so I can drive and pick them up versus any shipping.

I love all your birds BTW, I was drooling over some of your colors!

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

I will apologize before I even ask some questions, as I'm sure they have probably already been asked and answered on this thread. If so please steer me to where to look, but is there a cheat sheet of sorts for colors you can cross or if you do what you might get this D'anver's? I know there is the cross breed of chickens calculator, but I can't ever make head or tails of it. I'm sure if I read through all of these pages of Post, esp those of BBB would be very enlightening, but I would love something to refer to or help me make an mental visual map in my head? As I'm going to be getting my Mille and Porcelain eggs soon, my goal isn't to become a big breeder. It would be nice to have an ideal to begin with maybe colors that you can easily add or not. Not sure if this was understandable, I just find the color development intriguing and would like to learn from everyone.
Thanks
Melissa

Aubrey gave you some good advice about the chicken calculator, and you can learn alot from it. If you are like me (I am an engineer) it is kinda of like learning english in high school, they teach you the what, i before e except after c, unless it sounds laike an a in neighbor and way. They don't teach you why (maybe they did but I wasn't paying attention). If you knew why you might could explain words like weird. I got a book from Amazon that explains it pretty good.It is called "An Introduction to the color Forms of the Domestic Fowl" by Brian Reeder. You can learn most of the "why" and it makes the "what" make more sense. I still have alot to learn because I haven't seen it first hand like Aubrey has but what I do know I think I understand.

jj

 

[dtran0268]

fat all the way around JJ...I swear that things got to be white when it grows up though??? Killin me on it??


Do,
I can help a little, not sure what all crosses you have going but will try

The palest one, looks to be a dun, maybe a blue cant tell in the light in the pic. It also looks cuckoo with the white patch on the head.

The black with all the white is a mottled chick pattern, but it too has a cuckoo white head dot...barred mottled?? Problem with that is motling is recessive so both parents whould have had to carry it. It does have the correct leg pattern though for both, you can see the blacker spots in the pale leg right from the get go.

The 2 black ones are just that, black, could have come from any kind of cross. Lavender to any other color will give blacks, as does whites to a color.

The other has a columbian or bb red pattern, but quail cheeks. Too dark to be a true bb red, but correct pattern.. will just have to wait and see on him, should be based in that duckwing or columbian pattern though.

Keep posting on them as they get older. Once a few feathers start to come in, it'll help narrow the questionable ones down a bit

Aubrey! Below is current picture of the chick with columbian or bb red pattern. What is he?

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

This weeks hatch, a tad shy of 300. 2 blue quail (one real light, one real dark) 3 silver quail( one male, I think) and one gold quail.

 

[mccaff mama hen]

Thanks Aubrey and JJ, I will look into the calculator some more and the book. I"m not looking to breed to a color, I'm getting Mille and Porcelain from Aubrey and Chicken Stalker soon. Just over time I figure it could happen or might be interesting to have happen. I'll be watching and will as for info along the way. Thanks Again! Melissa

 

[NYRIR]

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Beautiful!!

 

[speckledhen]

No pictures today, but I took three of the two-week-old chicks from Aimee and Penny. I removed the one for-sure male Coch'Anver and two Mille Fleur D'Anvers that appear to be male from the clear buff feathers coming in on the shoulders, as well as their slightly pinkish combs. I left the broodies the two pullet Coch'anvers (those are so easy to sex after a week or so) and the only D'Anver that had lots of patterning in the shoulder feathers, very much like the older eyeliner chick we have found is a pullet. I hope that's the best way to tell--honestly, I really am thinking it's better than looking at combs this early. Thanks for that tip, Aubrey!

I put the three two week olds in with the chicks who are just over a week old in the outside brooder (formerly my crippled rooster's cage, RIP Zane). They yelled for mama for awhile, but then settled in just fine. Now, the broodies have only three chicks to watch out for, and if that little D'Anver is truly a pullet like the Coch'Anvers I'm sure of, then they will just stay in that coop and grow up with Aimee and Penny where they will live permanently. I'll have the eyeliner kid, the two lavender Coch'anvers and the little D'Anver to add to that coop as the four new pullets for Aubrey, Angus and Rufus.

My Phoenix, Molly, hatched her D'Anver baby (Carly's) this afternoon. She still has an egg under her from my EE hen that wasn't pipped at roost time. Wednesday is Day 21. Hopefully, that D'Anver is a pullet, but time will tell.

 

[NYRIR]

This weeks hatch, a tad shy of 300. 2 blue quail (one real light, one real dark) 3 silver quail( one male, I think) and one gold quail.

300!!!??? A week??? Who Does THAT?? How do you get rid of that many??

Adorable chicks...they look so healthy!

 

[speckledhen]

Those are beautiful chicks, JJ. I love the one on the far right-is that the gold quail? What will that look like as an adult?