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

[speckledhen]

My picture posting stuff came back today so, aint she purdy?

She is, indeed!

 

[NanaKat]

While I was in Wyoming this last week, I lost a few birds. The only d'Anver was LilGuy the black I got from Bob Bridges back in December. Hubby said he didn't know what was wrong...just found him next to the roost. He was a little toerag but I sure did like him. He was the inspiration for adding d'Anvers to my flock. He would not associate with the d'Anver girls but picked out two blue Cochin pullets as his flock. He would flog me anytime I got close to his girls, but a feather duster does no harm.

The d'Anver and OEGB girls have started laying so there are bantam eggs everywhere. Lots of active roos and haven't sorted out the pens for breeding. If these first eggs are fertile, will have a menagerie of chicks.

My two cochin broodies hatched eggs, Delilah before I left and AnnaBelle's hatched the day I got back.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Are the white tips on the toes of this one undesirable?

most all lavender based birds seem to hatch that way for me, but it goes away and is solid slate colored as they age, something to do with the genes I guess

 

[NanaKat]

Spent the afternoon selecting pairs and trios for breeding while cleaning the bantam coop and run and moving birds around.
I'm thinking that all the rearranging will set the girls back a few days from laying and then a few days to adjust to their new partners. May be next week before I get eggs again that will be fertile.....

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

did some of the same this weekend. It doesnt shut them down too bad, and only takes 3 days to get chicks from the new rooster. Good luck with them,,,

 

[NanaKat]

Well last night I set 17 bantam eggs which includes eggs from Peter, Paula and Mary (the Porcelains ),, the Buff Columbians and a pair that is either Ginger Red or a dark BC. Then some assorted OEGB and some LF project F1s

I'll collect eggs this week and set another batch next Thursday evening too. Gonna see some more babies soon.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

haha sounds great! Keep 'em coming. Just hatched out a couple lavender buff columbians today. Had 3 last week end too. Now if I can just have some better luck in the fall and be able to keep them all kicking I'll be doing good.

Oh JJ

Had a couple columbians come off them last week too, at least they sure look to be. Hope so, I need a bunch more of them to work with.

hope everyone is all doing good, threads been kinda slow recently.

 

[2StrayRoos]

Lost little Eva this morning. I called the lab and they think I should hold back about sending her being I havn't had no more outbreaks since Aug. If one gets sick now by all means let him know. I only have 1 D'Anver left out of 6. I wonder if I got a bad batch from the hatchery? The 3 EE's that I got along with these are fine. I did get these new birds from a farm. They will not join the others until the end of Nov. When they start eating laying food. Got them at the end of Sept. The white ones are part Polish and Ameracauna, the other one a OEG bantam? Such a sad day.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

haha sounds great! Keep 'em coming. Just hatched out a couple lavender buff columbians today. Had 3 last week end too. Now if I can just have some better luck in the fall and be able to keep them all kicking I'll be doing good.

Oh JJ

Had a couple columbians come off them last week too, at least they sure look to be. Hope so, I need a bunch more of them to work with.

hope everyone is all doing good, threads been kinda slow recently.

I have been thinking about my columbian project, some times it gets me in trouble, but here is what I have come up with. The ones I hatched from your eggs as well as the few I have gotten from mine, look like columbians but are actually un-melanized silver quail so they are still duckwing (e+) based. They look good but not sure they will breed very true. Columbians should be eb based like buff columbians and millies. So I think I will have two pens of them next year. One will have one of the columbian looking males I hatched from your eggs (I got two males) with the columbian looking pullets. The other will have the other male and some buff columbian and millies (silver millies would be cool) pullets at the very least it will give me a bigger gene pool to play with. Does this make any sense?
Besides trying to work on every silver color known to man, I will be trying to improve my other colors, got most of the parts I need I think. Oh and I almost forgot my wife has asked me to make her a pen of large fowl crele layers.

jj

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

not sure how acurrate that may be on mine. The man who made the original silvers I have, made them off columbians to quail.
Always figured these were a throw back from his original crossing. We'll find out if they breed true or not soon though.

Also pretty much an unmelanized silver quail pretty much is a columbian, basically removes the black hackel and back