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

[Backwoods Bntms]

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Honestly I didn't mean to type that out loud. My first thought (other than it being a chicken) is given what you know, it could be lavender, black or something with red leakage. So it's not black or it is not lavender then I am thinking it is either a millie or kind of a buff Columbian but the chick down looks weird because it is not homozygous eb at the E- locus, but rather E/eb.

Your black bird with the laced breast looks like a mottled birchen.

 

[Cetawin]

Wow she does look like that but how in the world would lavender and MF make that? LOL

A lavender d'uccle hen and her:

With this roo from your stock:

Gave me this pair. Hahahahaha

So go figure....time will tell on the chickster though.
This little chickster is like a dark grey with the buff color....weird.

I am really liking the d'anver x Cochin....they are gorgeous in person and softer foot feathering than the d'uccle and calmer than the d'anver (males). So I am going to play with the breeding some more and see what happens. They are fun little birds.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

The only thing I can figure based on what I see is that the Lavender hen had to be split between E (solid color) and E^R (birchen) at the E- locus. The solid color is dominate so with two lavender genes it would appear to be a Lavender bird. Also the hen would have to be split to mottled. To get the mottled silver birchen off spring, The MF rooster would also have to have one silver gene, but he doesn't look like it in the picture. I would keep breeding the mottled silver birchen to her MF father and be on the look out for a silver MF, If you get one with clean legs and a rose comb, I will be down to take the abomination off your hands.

 

[Cetawin]

JJ wants an abomination from the Horde Headquarters?

Wish I could help but her father was in a battle royal with the rooster brigade against a rottweiller...he, a silkie roo, a black d'uccle, two ORP cockerels Cyn hatched for me, and several others including hens sacrificed themselves fighting. Poor dog ran into 11 roos in that coop and all were fighting together.

BTW doggie was shot carrying one of my cockerels away. Between that and the massive heat stroke loss which took 14 birds in one day...my flock is rebuilding. Big standards do not do well when suddenly they face 105-120 degrees daily for a couple weeks straight.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

OK I either miss read or something last night. The pixs weren't even showing up of the chick and only half the text. I read lavender TIPed in black. Not split haha.. that's what I was replying on

Yes most all the milles Cyn has as split for lavender so what you got was normal. Blacks that will be splits and lavenders.
The chick posted is 100% mille looks like from what I can see. Just honestly very dark. Maybe even a blue mille some how. Any time you have that solid cream face on a dark body though , that's mille fuzz.

The other bird you posted looks like a silver birchen. is the rest of her all black mainly with just the silver lacing on the breast and hackle ? If so that's what she is, birchen...

The lavender d uccle may have been carrying or covering birchen. Its a very dominate gene and will be expressed even if just 1 parent is split for it

 

[laseterlass]

Finally got good pictures of Crow the Cuckoo under cover Great beard

 

[speckledhen]

OK I either miss read or something last night. The pixs weren't even showing up of the chick and only half the text. I read lavender TIPed in black. Not split haha.. that's what I was replying on

Yes most all the milles Cyn has as split for lavender so what you got was normal. Blacks that will be splits and lavenders.
The chick posted is 100% mille looks like from what I can see. Just honestly very dark. Maybe even a blue mille some how. Any time you have that solid cream face on a dark body though , that's mille fuzz.

The other bird you posted looks like a silver birchen. is the rest of her all black mainly with just the silver lacing on the breast and hackle ? If so that's what she is, birchen...

The lavender d uccle may have been carrying or covering birchen. Its a very dominate gene and will be expressed even if just 1 parent is split for it

I love it when you show up, Aubrey.

Check out my own Aubrey's lethal spurs. I really need to trim those before he hurts poor, sweet Spike, but he's becoming less inclined to fight with the other males in his later years (geez, he's not even 3, though).

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The oldest of Aimee's current sons is quite handsome, even with the KLF he has going on there. He's almost 16 weeks old.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

OK I either miss read or something last night. The pixs weren't even showing up of the chick and only half the text. I read lavender TIPed in black. Not split haha.. that's what I was replying on

Yes most all the milles Cyn has as split for lavender so what you got was normal. Blacks that will be splits and lavenders.
The chick posted is 100% mille looks like from what I can see. Just honestly very dark. Maybe even a blue mille some how. Any time you have that solid cream face on a dark body though , that's mille fuzz.

The other bird you posted looks like a silver birchen. is the rest of her all black mainly with just the silver lacing on the breast and hackle ? If so that's what she is, birchen...

The lavender d uccle may have been carrying or covering birchen. Its a very dominate gene and will be expressed even if just 1 parent is split for it

I agree that birchen is dominate to everything except extended black which includes self blue. That explains why you couldn't see it in the lavender hen. But the interesting thing and the thing that puzzles me is the silver birchen pullet, the silver had to come from her daddy, one of Cynthia's millies? I want a millie like that.

 

[Cetawin]

JJ Aubrey that black pullet is full blooded d'uccle but she lives with one of Aubrey's MF d'anvers..the pullet came from a lavender duccle hen under a MF duccle roo. I was using her foe color reference because the the lavender Cochin under MF d'anver gave me a black pullet with similar markings not as prominent but similar.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Always food to see you too Cynthia. Love all those pics too... nice