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

[Backwoods Bntms]

Aubrey, I have 4 millie hens that have gotten real white around the head and beard. Does it make sense to use these in the silver millie project.

 

[chickee]

I am new to d'Anvers and I am hooked! I just love them! Here are some pictures of my three porcelain, 4 1/2 month old chicks I hatched from eggs I purchased from a BYC member. I realize these pictures aren't the best, but feedback on the 3 of them would be appreciated!

 

[Cetawin]

NanaKat I will be blunt because well that is how I roll. That breeder is a son of ***** and would get an arse chewing from me. If he had this crap in his flock and did not cull the flock but treated them he should have closed his flock. Stuff like that irritates me....if I brought something in here from another breeder and my beloved Lancelot or Rufus caught it....not to mention one of my Suede daughters...the breeder would be searching for teeth on the ground after I knocked them out with a board or something. Serious or life threatening matters not....they become carriers themselves. Vicious cycle.

 

[ncchiclady]

I just bought 3 mottled. i cockerel and 2 hens! woohoo!!!!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Hope BBB and JJ are no longer seeing stars.

missed this one, ok but still have a bad head ache that wont go away, Cyn's got me wanting to go see the Dr. now!! There's a indented spot on my head where that darn cap button got me, kinda worried about that, dont feel right!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Aubrey, I have 4 millie hens that have gotten real white around the head and beard. Does it make sense to use these in the silver millie project.

na, not really. It's just like any mottled, some get a lot of white, some not enough, and some perfect. I get milles like this some times too. They are just the too white versions. They are still on a red base though. I'd pick the most perfectly mottled ones you has to start a silver project. Heavily white birds like that will not show good color in a silver version. Pretty much they are missing the black chevron at the tip of the feather in those areas, so on a silver ( white) bird, it would look very plain with so much white and no black markings.

If that all makes sense?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I am new to d'Anvers and I am hooked! I just love them! Here are some pictures of my three porcelain, 4 1/2 month old chicks I hatched from eggs I purchased from a BYC member. I realize these pictures aren't the best, but feedback on the 3 of them would be appreciated!

congrats! They are addictive once they get in you, just look at me.
Over all it's hard to tell much about them in these pics. The hen looks to have some very nice mottling though. The two boys I dont hardly see any on, but that often comes in late on them, and can be hard to see on a pale colored porcelain. Combs look decent, not 100 perfect but not bad either, the fit the head really nice looks like. The one facing in the last pic, it just needs to be a little fuller and wider at the front is all.
They both look to have great bull necks and all look to have really nice beards too. good feather shape and all too.
Main thing is you tell more about type while standing. some of the pics like that will help. But if the mottling comes in good on the males, you look to have a really nice reverse trio of them there.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

NanaKat I will be blunt because well that is how I roll. That breeder is a son of ***** and would get an arse chewing from me. If he had this crap in his flock and did not cull the flock but treated them he should have closed his flock. Stuff like that irritates me....if I brought something in here from another breeder and my beloved Lancelot or Rufus caught it....not to mention one of my Suede daughters...the breeder would be searching for teeth on the ground after I knocked them out with a board or something. Serious or life threatening matters not....they become carriers themselves. Vicious cycle.

very true, all the way threw.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I just bought 3 mottled. i cockerel and 2 hens! woohoo!!!!

cool, congrats on that, well we need pics now!
Who did you get them from?

 

[chickee]

congrats! They are addictive once they get in you, just look at me.
Over all it's hard to tell much about them in these pics. The hen looks to have some very nice mottling though. The two boys I dont hardly see any on, but that often comes in late on them, and can be hard to see on a pale colored porcelain. Combs look decent, not 100 perfect but not bad either, the fit the head really nice looks like. The one facing in the last pic, it just needs to be a little fuller and wider at the front is all.
They both look to have great bull necks and all look to have really nice beards too. good feather shape and all too.
Main thing is you tell more about type while standing. some of the pics like that will help. But if the mottling comes in good on the males, you look to have a really nice reverse trio of them there.

Thanks SO much for the critique! It was very helpful

The roosters actually have nice mottling, it just isn't showing up in the pictures. I was told that the parent birds were purchased from Yates Bantams. I just have to have MORE! That is why I contacted you about hatching eggs in September, but your birds had stopped laying well by then

I am really looking forward to getting eggs from you this spring