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

[Backwoods Bntms]

The pairs I've selected are posted below:
All three are laying eggs and the little roos are covering the hens.


The Mille Fleur pair

While not marked Mille Fleur, this is the hen

Pretty sure this one is a cockerel. Saddle hackles, pointed neck hackle, sickle feathers in the tail. 100% sure.

jj

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep NANA
That's a Ginger Red cockerel.

Just breed your porcelain set up for a while, then change the girl over to the mille male. Bred to the mille she'll make all mille, they will just carry lavender. As long as you just breed the new girls back to the mille male you have now, they will continue to be all just mille too.

You can make 2 colors with the one hen then. Just rotate her around.

same to the buff columbians. If you need to, you can breed those to mille or porcelain too to get more. Will also diversify the blood lines too.

You will just have to keep track of whos from who then cause they will be split for mottled.

Which, well can make you more milles that way too.

 

[dtran0268]

Hate to hear that Do.

man I'm trying too on the eggs, those you wanted just have done squat. I am getting a few more pens laying now, so maybe they'll kick in sooner or later.

on the birds you mentioned

silver quail to blue silver quail will be 1/2 each

on the columbian roo to a silver quail. That's pretty much what I did this year, just flip flopped on the sexes as I just have hens. But it will be largely quail, guessing 3/4 as the columbian is half quail at this point. but you should get about 25% columbian to come out I would think. That's about what I got from them this year. Just ended up with all girls

Thanks Aubrey.

 

[NanaKat]

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yep NANA
That's a Ginger Red cockerel.

Just breed your porcelain set up for a while, then change the girl over to the mille male. Bred to the mille she'll make all mille, they will just carry lavender. As long as you just breed the new girls back to the mille male you have now, they will continue to be all just mille too.

You can make 2 colors with the one hen then. Just rotate her around.

same to the buff columbians. If you need to, you can breed those to mille or porcelain too to get more. Will also diversify the blood lines too.

You will just have to keep track of whos from who then cause they will be split for mottled.

Which, well can make you more milles that way too.

Well poo! Guess the egg collected from that cage was laid by a hen sitting on top of the cage...
Glad it's another Ginger Red cockerel though.
Thanks for the breeding advicde Aubrey.
Will PM you about ordering some more eggs...going to have to get a few Black and some Ginger Red and more Porcelain and a few more Mille Fleur.if those are breeding for you now. Nine roosters need some hens in the near future.

 

[speckledhen]

Have you guys ever seen a D'Anver with very short legs? My Lucy's legs are maybe half the height of any other D'Anver I've had. As you can tell, you can't even see her legs, only her feet. She's really precious, but quite the oddball, always has been a little "off". It's almost like she has the creeper gene, though I'm sure it's just a fluke. Isn't she adorable?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Well poo! Guess the egg collected from that cage was laid by a hen sitting on top of the cage...
Glad it's another Ginger Red cockerel though.
Thanks for the breeding advicde Aubrey.
Will PM you about ordering some more eggs...going to have to get a few Black and some Ginger Red and more Porcelain and a few more Mille Fleur.if those are breeding for you now. Nine roosters need some hens in the near future.

no problem, ask any time

haha I was wondering how the egg got into the pen myself, but figured you may have had other hens in it. That'd be a first for sure though LOL

Actually right now, none of those colors here are laying that you mentioned. But a few new pens started back last week so I could get a few at any time, or none til spring again. I'll keep an eye out for them for you though

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Have you guys ever seen a D'Anver with very short legs? My Lucy's legs are maybe half the height of any other D'Anver I've had. As you can tell, you can't even see her legs, only her feet. She's really precious, but quite the oddball, always has been a little "off". It's almost like she has the creeper gene, though I'm sure it's just a fluke. Isn't she adorable?

nope Cyn,
That's a new one on me, but yep prob just a fluke deal on her, but man she's pretty!! Love the color and pattern she got and what a beard for a girl!! Breeding ohiki, I love stumpy legs myself, even though it aint right on a d'anver.
actually just started a mille ohiki project this summer so if you ever decide to part with your dear baby let me know, she'd be perfect.

 

[speckledhen]

Part with Lucy? Perish the thought! Much as I'd love to help out, you might have to pry her from my cold, dead hands! I love this little munchkin. Remember how I'd call her "Wrong Way Lucy, the Ditzy Chick"? She was always going off in the wrong direction when with her broody mama or she'd stand completely vertical like a guinea keet. I wondered if she'd been dropped on her head for awhile there!

I agree, I think she is gorgeous, too, Aubrey. And her comb is exactly like Penny's, so I bet she is Penny's daughter. Aimee and Carly both have those smoother type combs and less chunky body type than Penny or Lucy.


Oh, there was trouble in paradise today between Aubrey and Aimee (the chickens, not the Webbs, LOL). I bent down at the pen with my camera and Aubrey hit the fence almost immediately. Aimee must have thought he was attacking me rather than the camera and she went on the offensive with hackles flared, jumping in his face, chasing him around the pen. He couldn't get a flog in edgewise and ended up running for his life.

Tell you what, Aubrey-I'll let you know if I hatch any other short-legged D'Anvers. Maybe Lucy or her mama will throw more little munchkins.

 

[NanaKat]

Lucy sure is pretty!

Yes, Aubrey, I based the pairing on the size of the comb...the Ginger Red has a tiny comb and the Mille Fleur has a huge comb. I had to go look closely at the hackle feathers and did one of those "slap me up the side of the head" things. Then I had to figure out how the egg got in there

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Part with Lucy? Perish the thought! Much as I'd love to help out, you might have to pry her from my cold, dead hands! I love this little munchkin. Remember how I'd call her "Wrong Way Lucy, the Ditzy Chick"? She was always going off in the wrong direction when with her broody mama or she'd stand completely vertical like a guinea keet. I wondered if she'd been dropped on her head for awhile there!

I agree, I think she is gorgeous, too, Aubrey. And her comb is exactly like Penny's, so I bet she is Penny's daughter. Aimee and Carly both have those smoother type combs and less chunky body type than Penny or Lucy.


Oh, there was trouble in paradise today between Aubrey and Aimee (the chickens, not the Webbs, LOL). I bent down at the pen with my camera and Aubrey hit the fence almost immediately. Aimee must have thought he was attacking me rather than the camera and she went on the offensive with hackles flared, jumping in his face, chasing him around the pen. He couldn't get a flog in edgewise and ended up running for his life.

Tell you what, Aubrey-I'll let you know if I hatch any other short-legged D'Anvers. Maybe Lucy or her mama will throw more little munchkins.

haha I knew that ones was gone be a stretch

but yes if you ever get any more shortiest let me know....