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

[Backwoods Bntms]

Cyn...I think Cleo is a girl too. Such a cutie. I now have 5 hairy legged horde recruits hatched in my basement...mama is still holding tight on the last egg so maybe six babies soon. Will get their photographs tomorrow. I also 5 new recruits in the incubator cooking right along.

JJ it is too hot for leggings but you to try to shave one of them...no thanks. hahahahahaha

Wax them.

 

[Cetawin]

I will do the video tapping if you come and try it *smirk*

Oh forgot to tell you....I got a half flog from My Little Love....he showed me the bottom of ONE foot but he mainly just ounces off my daughter and I with his chest.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

I have a millie rooster about a year and a half old, who has never even threatened me. I put him in with a bunch of hens today. There were 4 porcelain hens that I wanted to move out of there. When I was trying to catch them the was bouncing of the back of my legs. I figure he was just doing his job. I put a another millie hen in there and some of the others wanted to pick on her , he would run to get between them. It was funny because he would just get in their way like he wasn't doing it on purpose and acted like he didn't know anything was going on but he would stay between them. Good Rooster.

 

[speckledhen]

Quote: I know that move! My first ever rooster, a big BR named Hawkeye, would do the same thing, just mosey on over and very slowly and casually walk between two fighting hens, then he'd look at one and look at the other one and they'd quit. He was the best. He'd never dream of flogging me. He was my best buddy.

DH wants to rename Cleopatra. He says because she was hatched on a heating pad, her name should be Heather as in Heat Her. Bahahahaha!

 

[Cetawin]

Oh lordy....Heather....really? LOL


I have to show you all this...my Partridge Silkie is hatching babies today...I snapped some pics while I was removing egg shells. Silly girl kept sitting in boxes so I had no place to put her so I made her a broody bin box and put it in a wire dog crate in the basement...she loves it.



Cute moment...baby curiosity or baby had something to say to mama one of the two.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

I know that move! My first ever rooster, a big BR named Hawkeye, would do the same thing, just mosey on over and very slowly and casually walk between two fighting hens, then he'd look at one and look at the other one and they'd quit. He was the best. He'd never dream of flogging me. He was my best buddy.

DH wants to rename Cleopatra. He says because she was hatched on a heating pad, her name should be Heather as in Heat Her. Bahahahaha!

My wife has a blue wheaton ameracana roo that hatched from shipped eggs. He was the only one hatched and hatched 4 days early, she named him Earl Lee.

 

[speckledhen]

Carly has stolen all five babies from poor Aimee. Aimee keeps calling them, but they won't come to her. It's pitiful! Carly is getting payback for Aimee and Penny leaving her with three roosters when they both were broody early this year, I guess.


JJ, you made me think of that Dixie Chicks song "Goobye, Earl", or I think that's the title of it, LOL.

 

[Cetawin]

Poor Aimee ... that Carly is just being... Grumpy Wench. Take the babies and split them up so Aimee can have some. She worked hard for them too.

 

[NanaKat]

Love all the pictures and the videos.

I have two escape artists among the d'Anvers. They are in a 5 x 7 foot floor pen with chicken wire 8 feet up...within a foot of the barn roof. Every morning these two are on top of the shelf unit on the other side of the pen wall. They don't know how to get down yet, or maybe don't want to socialize with the big cochins on the floor. I hold a stick up for them to jump on and lower them down and put them back in their pen.
Going to have to show them Cynthia's video on "Inside"and set up a ramp.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

JJ, you made me think of that Dixie Chicks song "Goobye, Earl", or I think that's the title of it, LOL.

I love that song! I listened to it pretty much everyday when I was 9. Dixie Chicks Rock...