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

[Backwoods Bntms]

best I can see from that pic it does have a columbian look to it. You could go that route after you get your project birds done, or you colud go the lavender quail version pretty quick too I would think. That's one I've been wanting to do. Saw som from Belgium once, they were beautiful, made a very cool patter and color on them.... that's what caught my eye on it.... either way I dont think you'd go wrong

Think I will go the lavander columbian route first then do the lavander quail. Looks like the cleanest way to go, I think. I know I should just work on the recognized colors but....

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

You and me are eggs-perts, then!

Yes, we are!!

 

[4HDad]

Aubrey,

Thanks for helping me out with the color of this chick. I guess I really need to just be patient and wait for them to mature more.

I had mentioned earlier that my son noticed about a week ago one of his hens was broody. We candled last night and it looks like she had been sitting on one egg longer than he thought. One is showing a lot of development and movement. Two others are just showing veins. This is going to be interesting.

Thanks,
Roger

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Think I will go the lavander columbian route first then do the lavander quail. Looks like the cleanest way to go, I think. I know I should just work on the recognized colors but....

why would you do that!!! LOL
Everyone has those, you got to make them to get the recognized haha

I do what I like and let everyone else worry about it.... yep columbian will most likely be the best route

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Aubrey,

Thanks for helping me out with the color of this chick. I guess I really need to just be patient and wait for them to mature more.

I had mentioned earlier that my son noticed about a week ago one of his hens was broody. We candled last night and it looks like she had been sitting on one egg longer than he thought. One is showing a lot of development and movement. Two others are just showing veins. This is going to be interesting.

Thanks,
Roger

no problem, wish I could of been a little more help. time will tell, but I'm betting a quail with bb red in it for now

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Roosters aren't the only thing I hatch. Here are some of the girls.

Aubrey., let me know how they are looking.



Silver quail project






Blue quail project




Blue silver quail project



And lavander columbian I think

 

[lcw1995]

Can I get porcelains from my mille fleur roo and porcelain pullet or just mille split to porcelain?
Hope I said that right
Also whatt can I get from the mille roo and my brown red project pullet??
Thanks,
Cole

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Can I get porcelains from my mille fleur roo and porcelain pullet or just mille split to porcelain?
Hope I said that right
Also whatt can I get from the mille roo and my brown red project pullet??
Thanks,
Cole

Cole, lavender is recessive, so any time you cross a lavender based bird to one that isnt, you get birds split to lavender. This means they carry the gene, but just 1 copy, recessive traits need 2 copies, one from each parent. So yes both being mottled columbian based birds, you will get all milles all split to lavender on the first cross.

Now breed these new babies to each other and you will get porcelains as well as more millies. Some of these milles will be split, some wont, hard to know without breeding them.

IF porcelain was the soley goal. I'd also breed one of you new split lavender mille males back to the porcelain mother. You will have a much higher porcelain outcome that way.

I've never done the brown red to mille cross. BUT brown red is a birchen color pattern. ALL birchens are dominate. They will pretty much cancel out or cover up all other wild patterns. Gingers, duckwings, columbians etc, birchen tops them all.
So you'd get all brown red split to mottled on that cross the first time. With a back cross you'd get both mottled and unmottled versions of a brown red. Moreless would be spangled, just without the normal duckwing pattern of a true spangled.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Roosters aren't the only thing I hatch. Here are some of the girls.

Aubrey., let me know how they are looking.



Silver quail project






Blue quail project




Blue silver quail project



And lavander columbian I think

Man JJ
YOU DOIN GOOD!! I like most all of those. You blue quail are showing a lot of promise too, as are the silvers. The milles are all pretty good too.

I like the type on that last girl too, nice and thick bodied, but I dont think she's columbian. Too much lavender, think she's quail. Pretty much replace the lavender ( or blue too) with black. So she would have a almost solid black body with some reddish tips and stippling in her... pretty much a dark quail hen. To be a columbian base, she'd look almost like, well exactly like a non mottled porcelain. In other words, she'd be a pale cream boddied bird with just a lavender tail and streaks in the hackle.

Wonder how you came about her in the first place?

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Man JJ
YOU DOIN GOOD!! I like most all of those. You blue quail are showing a lot of promise too, as are the silvers. The milles are all pretty good too.

I like the type on that last girl too, nice and thick bodied, but I dont think she's columbian. Too much lavender, think she's quail. Pretty much replace the lavender ( or blue too) with black. So she would have a almost solid black body with some reddish tips and stippling in her... pretty much a dark quail hen. To be a columbian base, she'd look almost like, well exactly like a non mottled porcelain. In other words, she'd be a pale cream boddied bird with just a lavender tail and streaks in the hackle.

Wonder how you came about her in the first place?

Lottery? so what do you think, cross her to a quail, then back cross the next year and see what happens? The lavander hen I made her with hasn't laid in a while. But I am hoping she will start up before long, maybe get some more.