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

[Backwoods Bntms]

Pretty much have my new breeder pens finished, 6 4' x 4' pens .here is a pic.



The first tennants, The evil bb red and some girls



Aubrey, I ended up with 4 of these columbian pullets that have some red bleed, any idea how hard it will be to clean up if crossed with a clean rooster?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

love those pens JJ, they should work perfect. Really like the crele pullet too.

on the columbian type pullets, that's all you can do, keep taking them to clean males. It'll take a cross back or two, but no big deal. Once you get some clean ones going, it's of course not advised to continue with the leaky ones. But in the begining that's all you can do, use what you have. I think if you have a good clean male, you'll get plenty this year to pick out and be done with it, may have a few goldish ones, but the silver to silver should get rid of the red leakage fairly quick. With those you may get some red to pop back up even then from clean to clean back crosses. If you do, cull everything then, and keep the new clean chicks and from there those should be perfect. If the matings dont produce and further red leakage, you should have it nailed in just the one crossing this year...

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

I really like the crele pullet too. Can't wait to have a bunch of them. I would like to get a decent male out of this pen to put with some pullets out of my other pen.

I got another question, I have my blue silver pullets with one of your silver quail roosters ( he looks columbian, but thats what I have) half the chicks are going to be silver quail. Is it going to be like the quails out of a blue quail line, meaning the color will be off or will I have two lines of silvers when I am done?

 

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This is Rukia. She's was a spring 2012 chick. One of our favorites in our mixed flock!

Tammie

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I really like the crele pullet too. Can't wait to have a bunch of them. I would like to get a decent male out of this pen to put with some pullets out of my other pen.

I got another question, I have my blue silver pullets with one of your silver quail roosters ( he looks columbian, but thats what I have) half the chicks are going to be silver quail. Is it going to be like the quails out of a blue quail line, meaning the color will be off or will I have two lines of silvers when I am done?

havent got that far with them to tell 100%, but the blue dilutes the gold red color on the quail. If I'm thinking right from your question, that's what you are talking about, the washed out looking quial that come from blue quail matings.
In the silvers case, they wont have anything but black and white, neither of those should be effected by the blue mating, so they should be perfect in theory.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

havent got that far with them to tell 100%, but the blue dilutes the gold red color on the quail. If I'm thinking right from your question, that's what you are talking about, the washed out looking quial that come from blue quail matings.
In the silvers case, they wont have anything but black and white, neither of those should be effected by the blue mating, so they should be perfect in theory.

Yep that was what I was wanting to know. Thanks.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

10-4

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

This is Rukia. She's was a spring 2012 chick. One of our favorites in our mixed flock!

Tammie

There is nothing not to like about a d'Anver pullet.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Moved some more birds today.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

looking good, sure like that male there !!