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

[chicken boy sam]

They are great for 4-H, and I'm the President of The Chicken Chaser's 4-h Club in CT. I just got my first, and she won Junior Champion in the fair, and they're really easy to handle. It CAN be hard to get them out of the cage, though....so tell your son to to practice if you get one!!! (You should.... really!)

 

[speckledhen]

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Cynthia

That would be pretty funny, these little 20 some odd ounce fellows with some 5+ pound girls, LOL

On these, as for the aggressiveness, it's more territorial really than outright meanness. About 30-40% of my roos are that way, usually the 2 year or younger ones, after 2 they seem to chill out, may be a testosterone over load in them.

Like Scratcheswith chickens said earlier, It seems to be more of a protective nature towards their hens from my experiences with them. Anytime, I catch a hen in a pen, to examine, worm or whatever, roos 12 stalls down will light up, not to mention the ones in the stall with you, LOL

But honestly, with them it's more of an annoyance that anything, kind of humorous to watch really.
I have also noticed certain colors seem more prone to it that others. All my solid colors, black, white, lavender, buff etc have a streak to them.
As do the dark colored quails., and bb reds.
The mottled (porcelains, millies, mottled), all seem to be puppy dogs as do all the barred patterned ones and silver quail . Ginger reds, dun, and the rest seem to be about 50 50.
One thing with them though, I keep multiple males in all the pens, some like the gingers and duns have up to 4-5 in each stall, and they dont fight, very odd.
Now you have to put them all in together obviously, raised together is best. Or put in adolescent males, mature males will get attacked by the dominate ones if you add them. BUT, I have done that too during all these color breeding male moves, after about and hour of raised hackles, and bowed heads, they stop and are buddy watch dogs from then on.

Now the little hens, there's not a gentler, friendly er bird on the planet I believe, I have , oh 300 or so, and most all will walk right up to you, eat out of your hand, even fly up and get on your shoulder in a lot of cases. I've never done a thing to get them to do this, Have too many to baby them as pets, they just do it on their own

Sounds fine to me. And of course, I want the puppy dog porcelains, LOL! I'm hoping to have a little man and maybe 5-6 girls at a minimum. DH isn't entirely convinced, but he will be.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I hear ya Cynthia!!
Stay on him about them, will be glad to get you some up this next season!!

 

[chickenzoo]

Mine do well with other roos, although I think the relationship is one sided... hehe They do not stand down easily and even the biggest roo ( or Turkey) soon learns just to give up instead of messing with the little ankle biter.

( white Phoenix Roo with a very bad hair & wattle day)

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

LOL
Looks like he's saying,
oh, would you just go away!

 

[Nodaksnakelover]

I'm enjoying all the pictures! And I look forward to having my first d'anvers this next spring! I've always loved the original Quail color. But there's a few colors that Aubrey has that has me thinking I might add a few of those to my order too. Am liking the Millies, BB Reds, and Lavender colors too. Am still on the fence about the Dun Quail. I need some good comparison pictures. I'm failing to see the differences! But a friend of mine said, that's how it is with the hobby he and I are in. We can easily spot the differences cause we work with these animals in hand. So I'm sure the pictures I'm seeing are failing to convey the true feather color. Cause so far, I'm not seeing the difference between Quail and Dun Quail. Cause I'm still seeing black when I look at the Dun Quail pictures. Anyhow, thanks to all sharing pics! And Aubrey, I plan to be in contact with my final picks and final order on Feb 1! Yay! I also became a member of the d'anver club. I see they have a forum too and thought I'd support a club to learn more info on these guys. Thanks for the link.
Russell

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

quail hen

dun quail hen

dun quail roo, note it's not black in the hackle, and tail and wings, it's VERY dark chocolate, flash on pic isnt helping, easier to see in person

Dun in these can vary from dark chocolate (nearly black looking) to a blue grey color like in the dun cuckoo I posted a few back. On some it's hard to see from pics, but a dead give away when you see them. I will try to get some better picks as soon as I can to show what I mean. It's very obvious as chicks though. The quail hatch black with a yellow face. The dun solid chocolate/grey with pale face. the khakis that come from these as chicks are a pale yellow grey color.



Glad to hear you joined the club, and let me know if you decide to get up a spring order, will be glad to help you on any color you like

 

[Nodaksnakelover]

Aubrey, thanks! I'm sure in person it's more clear! But if I'm looking at it right, it shows more in the hen than it does the rooster. I look forward to spring! So now...what's a khaki look like? The Khaki is the dun gene in het form? That is, is the phenotype showing khaki a bird having one dun gene?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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I dont know, it's pretty obvious to me in both LOL, the hens dont have as much shine to them, I guess that makes them take better examples in the pics. But look close at his tail, wing and hackle, it's not black, its a grey brown color, theres a few on his tail in the pic I showed, that look blackish, but it's just the flash of the camera making the shine. These pics were taken inside the barn when they were in the quarentine pens when they first came in. Will try to get and upload some new pics today. Also just hatched a dun and khaki chick this morning, will get one of them too for comparison.

This is my first year with these, and I just hatched a few khakis so I dont have any pics yet of them, they are a very pale version. And yes, it's just like the splash version in a blued bird. Dun, like blue produces 3 colors 25% black phase, 50% dun phase and 25% khaki

dun to dun will always give this ratio
black to black will all be black
khaki to khaki will be all khaki
khaki to dun will be all dun

works just like the blue gene, it's just a chocolate color instead of a blue one....

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

g some new quail dun quail comparison pics today, just quick snaps, but you can see the color difference a little better.
Note the wing, hackle and tail on the dun, no iridescent shine, brown grey in color

compare to the normal quail, same area bright, jet black with "beetle green" shine to them. Being a tan/brown colored bird, it's harder to see on quail, other colors/patterns, it pops out

duns

" black " quail

just coming out of molt