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

[TXchickmum]

Our d'Anver roo was the sweetest. -not aggressive to us at all. -would hop up in our laps and sit a while. He was very, very protective of the flock and an exceptionally good "alarm" for the ladies any time a hawk (or any bird) flew near. Our issue was crowing. He began at 4:30 AM and crowed until about 6:30. (We wake up very early, so it didn't bother us. It did bother a neighbor, so we began bringing him in at 4:30 each morning. -placed him back with the flock when it was time for them to leave the coop each morning (about 6:30). After a few months, he developed a fondness for crowing about the lawn throughout the day. Again, we loved it....but it wasn't going to go without notice in the neighborhood. We re-homed because of the crowing. -loved that rooster! He was a real gem!

 

[QuoVadis]

Well I guess I'll play it by ear, and see how much he crows. Worst comes to worst I know I could get my parents to take him, since they have chickens too.

 

[QuoVadis]

Also, I have an extra pair of quail D'anver I won't be keeping, if anyone wants them. I'm in Green Bay, WI

 

[Yvonne13]

Also, I have an extra pair of quail D'anver I won't be keeping, if anyone wants them. I'm in Green Bay, WI

Would you be willing to ship? I would pay for shipping!

 

[QuoVadis]

Well Ive never shipped anything out, let alone half way grown chicks... what would be involved in doing that? Also how would payment work?

 

[Yvonne13]

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Well Ive never shipped anything out, let alone half way grown chicks... what would be involved in doing that? Also how would payment work?

Ill message you

 

[speckledhen]

Be sure you know the laws about shipping birds. Though the P.O. rarely checks, you are supposed to be NPIP and/or have a vet's certificate of health, sometimes a permit for the state you're shipping into, and have a special bio box for this. If you don't do it right, you could end up sending some dead birds. They must go Express as well. You're supposed to ship day olds who can live on their yolk for three days or wait until they can be on limited feed for several days as older birds.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/252070/shipping-requirements-for-adult-poultry-usps-info


I removed the two D'Anver cockerels from the pen. One has decided to move up the ladder and had Spike a bloody mess. I won't have it! So, I threw them both in the broody cage in the Orp coop. Enough is enough. The main one causing the trouble is the close-to-friendly one, too. I'm so not going to have them hurting my mild mannered Spike. And Aubrey was not stepping into the middle of it as flock alpha, so he's not on my favorites list today, either. Anyone ever process and eat a D'Anver rooster? I wonder if the local fox would like a D'Anver nugget.

Those two can stay there until someone either claims them or I snap their scrawny little necks.


Quote: With this breed, that is more the norm than the exception, though they run the gamut in temperament. Spike is my only one ever truly friendly D'Anver rooster and I've had quite a few hatched here in the last three years. He's not even a biter. Most have that Little Big Man Syndrome.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Cynthia, are the hoodlums still incarcerated. Oh, and what about the bat?

 

[speckledhen]

Yes, they are still in the broody pen/cage in the Orp coop. They are totally confused. Poor Spike looks like a prize fighter with black eyes and a battered comb and I'm afraid they'd start back in on him again if I put them back. No idea what the heck I'm going to do with them.

The bat did finally leave after three weeks. One morning, he/she was just gone. Glad I didn't interfere.

 

[speckledhen]

As of today, Monday, one male, the one I call Rusty2 is back in the coop. I put him back without his brother and Spike has been laying down the law to him ever since. I briefly put the other one, the one who wants to move up the ranks, in there, but he was battling Spike again, so I took him out and he's alone in the broody cage. I feel badly for him because he's not a bad guy, just doing his roosterly best to bump Spike out of the #2 position in the flock. I may put him back tomorrow again, since his brother should be properly chastised by now and maybe won't double team Spike with him. Spike is not a fighter at heart so I'm afraid he'll be hurt. He really doesn't like or want to fight, you can tell. He never even bothered the two of them before this happened, only occasionally breaking up fights between the two of them. Spikers is such a sweetie and I just don't want him hurt.