They are no more precocious than a Delaware or Delaware X cockerel. I had one that my D'Anver hen, Aimee, is raising actually simulate mating on his own broody mama at 5 weeks old, while poor Aimee yelled at him and tried not to crush the D'anver chick underneath her. Crazy, those Dellie chicks. I see that behavior all the time with them. It's weird to see, but normal behavior for a chicken. Chicken mating has no finesse whatsoever.
The 10 week old D'Anver male is becoming my good buddy-thinking he must be Spike's kid, I swear. He has feathers on the legs from mama Aimee, a flattish comb, but he is the sweetest thing alive right now, comes tearing across the yard like a little speedboat when I come down the steps, lets me pick him up, chatters to me. The little pullet with him is a ditzy as Lucy was, maybe even more. She's precious and clean legged and someone needs her for breeding, but so far, no bites on my ad for all of them.
Aimee is still a pullet producer, producing 6 pullets out of 8 chicks. Both males and one female have feather stubs, but the other five are clean legged as far as I can tell-they are skittish, having been raised by broodies in the bantam coop with my two LF Dellie X chicks. Thought I'd lose the smallest pullet to cocci, though I'd never lost one to that before, but my DH took her on as a project, brought her into the house, fed her special food and Corid water with raw honey in it and darn it, if that little thing isn't better and finally growing and thriving. Guess we'll keep her since she may never reach full size. She's noticeably smaller than her sister that hatched with her.
Here are the oldest pair.
The 10 week old D'Anver male is becoming my good buddy-thinking he must be Spike's kid, I swear. He has feathers on the legs from mama Aimee, a flattish comb, but he is the sweetest thing alive right now, comes tearing across the yard like a little speedboat when I come down the steps, lets me pick him up, chatters to me. The little pullet with him is a ditzy as Lucy was, maybe even more. She's precious and clean legged and someone needs her for breeding, but so far, no bites on my ad for all of them.
Aimee is still a pullet producer, producing 6 pullets out of 8 chicks. Both males and one female have feather stubs, but the other five are clean legged as far as I can tell-they are skittish, having been raised by broodies in the bantam coop with my two LF Dellie X chicks. Thought I'd lose the smallest pullet to cocci, though I'd never lost one to that before, but my DH took her on as a project, brought her into the house, fed her special food and Corid water with raw honey in it and darn it, if that little thing isn't better and finally growing and thriving. Guess we'll keep her since she may never reach full size. She's noticeably smaller than her sister that hatched with her.
Here are the oldest pair.
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