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

[MaryRuthLangdon]

I adore these little birds...

Mine have such spunky personalities.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

That last one looks like it has a thumb like maybe a possum.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

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).

This is what I was talking about in the above post.

 

[speckledhen]

I think that was something on the ground, JJ. This wasn't a possum unless it was Robo-Possum. And seems the shape of the track is wrong, but who knows? We hear coyotes in recent weeks at night yipping, though this would be a small one if that's what was lurking.

Anyway, I've caught critters before trying to get a look at the chicken buffet in the window. Once, it was a humongous orange and white Maine Coon cat with his paws on the sill. There is a downside to a window that low to the ground, LOL. Chickens can see out, but everything else can see in, too! Last week, when DH went to raise the feeders late at night, found my rooster, Isaac, sitting on the floor under the hanging feeder. He must have been spooked and got off the roost in preparation for what might be outside trying to get his girls (we have night lights so he can see). He never does that unless he's nervous so something has been prowling before last night.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Blue silver quail

 

[chickee]

Blue silver quail

Precious!

Another color to add to my want list!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

congrats JJ

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Aubrey, out of my crele pen I have hatched three chicks. They all look like bb red chicks except one has a white spot in the middle of that brown patch on it head, does that mean it will be barred?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

that means it's a 100% perfect finished crele then. Yes you want them to look like a bb red ( that's what they are anyway) and a white dot on the head always means barred. So that's perfect. I bet the other 2 will be too. Some times the white's pretty hard to see on them. One sex just has a few fuzzys in white, the other has a clear bold white patch. Having a brain laps right now, but pretty sure the pullets are the ones with the defined white, the males are thin and stringy. That pretty much works for all barred chick sexing too.
Yall correct me if I'm wrong on the sexes, had a long day haha

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Crele chick, I think you can see the barring in the wings now.





Found my other two crele chicks in the mob. I must have a pair because one of the others has a white spot but it is like the size of a pencil point. The third I think is bb red because I have a single factor rooster over bb red hens so 50% should be bb reds.