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

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

woo hoo!!!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

woo hoo!!!

 

[NanaKat]

Big Congratulations on the Porcelain chickie...adorable. And love Mina's colors!


Here is Miss Piggy and Spike
her current roo


Didn't I do a nice job lining up those two pictures

And here is part of rooster row....there are nine roos working out their differences since I busted up the other pairs. Wasn't getting good fertility in the incubator. Will try Miss Piggy with Spike and see if there is any improvement. If not, will not incubate eggs again until spring....unless Aubrey has some to send before it gets too cold.


All the boys will run with the big flock again once they get along. Will end up culling the extra OEGB boys...had 5 roos and one little pullet. She just needs one man.

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks! That is biologically Mina's baby, but Aimee is the broody mama. Mina is broody, but has no eggs. Two broodies in that coop was enough and Mina is a first timer so I didn't want to take a chance on her.

The second baby, also out of Mina, is a Mille Fleur. So between Molly and Aimee's broods, there is one Aimee baby and three Mina babies, but only one of Mina's is porcelain. At least that tells me that Mina is a split for sure. Aimee's chicks are almost always pullets, but also, almost always have feather stubs on the legs or actual leg feathering-this one looks to be positively furry.

And, of course, since Mina is a split for sure, I know that the three mille fleur babies from Mina are all 3/4 porcelain.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Spent all day trimming toe nails, banding, and blood testing. I had about twelve chickens last spring, where did all these come from?

Oh and look what I found among my millie pullets, I been looking for one of these.

 

[NanaKat]

Out of curiosity, why are you blood testing?

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Out of curiosity, why are you blood testing?

Pullorum-Typhoid testing for my NPIP status.

 

[NanaKat]

Out of curiosity, why are you blood testing?

Pullorum-Typhoid testing for my NPIP status.

Is this the test where you sample 5% of your flock? Then if they test clean and you have no symptoms you no longer have to test but every 5 years.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Is this the test where you sample 5% of your flock? Then if they test clean and you have no symptoms you no longer have to test but every 5 years.

I have to do this test once a year and have the state vet test 30 birds for AI every 6 months to maintain my NPIP AI clean status. This allows me to show birds with out getting tested for every show and to ship eggs and birds with out a lot of paper work.

Is Spike a buff columbian or a Ginger red?

 

[Cetawin]

I Know ya'll have missed me, especially JJ I have been busy busy busy. I have made about 30 lbs of soap, bowling weekly with my kid and raising chickens lol. I wanted to update you all on the oddities here at the Menagerie' as you have not seen them in awhile...

First up....Mongo. Mongo if you recall was the white chick gray markings that came from my MF D'Anver over a Black Lav split d'Uccle and a Lav d'Uccle....well here he is today











Second Up...Miss Alice from the same pen hahahaha








And last up....Rusty




All have Kentucky Leg Fungus of course

And just to let you know how time consuming it is o raise chickens around this place....well this is ONE example of what must be done constantly here










Well...I am off. I have soap to make tonight.