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

[Backwoods Bntms]

There are six new silver quail in the world so far tonight.

Make that 10 new silver quail and 3 blue silver quail. Also 2 crele and 2 lavender quail. Plus 20 Watermaal project chicks, some blue quail, quail and a black out of the lavender project.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Lavendar Quail chicks.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Lavendar Quail chicks.

Aubrey, I thought these two chicks were lavender quail because they are out of that lavender quail looking pullet I hatched last year and a silver quail (with only one silver gene, golden?) quail rooster out of that silver quail roo that was split to lavender. I hatched 3 one was black and these two so I think they are lavender or esle all three would have been black. But tonight when I was looking at them they have eye stripes and their back looks like this.





Any Ideas, or wait and see?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep I didnt want to call that out the other night when I say that post, but they certainly have no lavender expressed. To be honest, they look like a heavily melanized silver duckwing with the head stripe and all. But it'll be a wait and see thing still on them, certainly silver based though. I bet they'll be silver quail when it's all done, just with something else in them. They have the quail face for sure, but a duckwing back... who knows. That's what I like about all these crosses. You never know what will pop out. Did you get the pics I sent last night? For some reason I can find that e-mail in my sent box??

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

I thought the color looked a little off, but it was stuck in my head that they would either be solid black or laxender out of that pen. Didn't see the stripes till the next day when they were all fluffed up. They still have a strange looking tint to the color in between blue and lavender. The wings are coming in dark. Can't wait to see what they turn out to be. Oh and I couldn't find any pics of the silver quail.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep, odd the chest shots look like they could be blue, then you see those dark backs? Dont know what to think on those. Keep em marked or something, interested to see what they end up being now...

 

[speckledhen]

Just popping in to say interesting little chicksters, JJ. Love that eyeliner! Mine are full of themselves. Spike even challenged his pop today, 10 weeks old and thinks he's all that. Aubrey ignored him and Spike lost his nerve and ran away, LOL.

We're going to have some nasty weather tomorrow, snow/sleet. Has rained already for 4 days straight, now temps plummeting overnight and maybe some minor accumulation. Nothing to you up there in VA, JJ, of course. Nothing to us, either, really, not after living in Utah, Colorado and Ohio!

And found this track outside the main coop next to the roost window (which is large and low to the ground), so something was nosing around for a chicken dinner last night, but the buffet was buttoned up tight.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Just popping in to say interesting little chicksters, JJ. Love that eyeliner! Mine are full of themselves. Spike even challenged his pop today, 10 weeks old and thinks he's all that. Aubrey ignored him and Spike lost his nerve and ran away, LOL.

We're going to have some nasty weather tomorrow, snow/sleet. Has rained already for 4 days straight, now temps plummeting overnight and maybe some minor accumulation. Nothing to you up there in VA, JJ, of course. Nothing to us, either, really, not after living in Utah, Colorado and Ohio!

And found this track outside the main coop next to the roost window (which is large and low to the ground), so something was nosing around for a chicken dinner last night, but the buffet was buttoned up tight.

Been raining here too, could see ice in the trees on the mountians, nothing down low though. We are supossed to get 3 to 6 inches tomarrow. How big is that track, never seen any like it, only one?

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

yep, odd the chest shots look like they could be blue, then you see those dark backs? Dont know what to think on those. Keep em marked or something, interested to see what they end up being now...

Yep, marking every thing this year except the silver quail unless they come from the blue silver pen, Want to have two different lines of them. Last year I could keep track of every thing, got too many this year.

 

[speckledhen]

There was a slight impression of the left foot as well, but this one is in deep soft silty mud that ran down the hill against the rocks that surround the coop and was underneath the overhang, so it was the only one that wasn't washed out too much to get a picture. There is what I think is the impression of a claw on the far right toe, though the camera couldn't really capture it well, and it's pushed forward into and under the top of the mud like it had forward motion, so it's definitely a track of some sort. Weird, for sure. I found another vague one going the same direction as this one, around the front of the coop, but with all the pounding rain, no others I could discern.

It's about an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half wide, larger than a normal house cat, maybe about the size of a small fox, I'd guess. I didn't take anything out there for perspective, just snapped the pic quick while getting the birds back in the coops (they were out for an hour or two today during a lull in the weather).