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

[K Epp]

Looks lime Rusty has a new girl... He always guards the door when the girls are on the nest. I peeled in and Sally Seabright was in their nest... I'm pretty sure I can pick out the D'anver eggs and have been writting the date on them.

I knew he liked the Sally it will be interesting to see where she roost tonight.

 

[hiddenacres]

Well question here is this then starting to grow adult feathers? They look like pin feathers to me and they are only 2 days old and one is 1 day!? Any help is needed and welcome. The picture is of the two day one and you can see the pin feathers on the wing.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

hey guys can you click the link to the video and watch it for me i would like to know if this is a male or not. The video show how its acted since it hatched so any thoughts they are day and two days old

You really can't tell that young. It is just running to look at what the hen (you) is showing it. I have had day olds run across the brooder and flog my hand and they turned out pullets. Post some pictures in 4 or 5 weeks and some one can tell you the genders with some certainty.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep, That's just a chick being a chick. give it a couple months and it'll be more easily distinguished . Also the wing feather thing is normal. All breeds start to sprout wing feathers the moment they hatch. Most are actually in pin feather coming out of the shell, and once dried they start to open. This is a defense thing back to the wild days. Same with wind turkeys and such. It just allows the chick to fly and get away from stuff better.
some will tell you day one feathering is one sex, day two or 3 is another..... lol then I have heard hold a ring and a string over their heads too, it'll rock side to side on one sex and spin in circles on another...... wives tales is all any of that is.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

well, I wish I had of taken progress pics of this... kinda odd.

I have seen ovary damage in long tail fowl end up causing a testosterone over load in hens and cause the to get cock feathering. Fairly common in them actually to do how hormonal they can be

BUT, I now have a dun cuckoo d'anver to do it to the extreme!

she laid well and produced beautiful chciks last year.

this fall when she molted, I noticed a few odd hackles on her coming in.

Here's where I wish I had of take progress pics if I had of known .

as she feathered back in, she grew a bull neck hackle, saddles, tail angle went up and filled in fully as a rooster.

she freaking crowed this morning, spurred me, and then bred a hen!! And when I say crowed, I mean full on adult male crow, now a squeaky hen attempt. But the breeding was icing on the cake.... If you didn't know better, you'd think she was a full on cock bird to look at her now.
The barring pattern even changed to the male type lines instead of the more rounded laced look hens normally carry.

anyway, just thought it was one of those crazy things that happen, and felt like sharing.

 

[hiddenacres]

Well that is

well, I wish I had of taken progress pics of this... kinda odd.

I have seen ovary damage in long tail fowl end up causing a testosterone over load in hens and cause the to get cock feathering. Fairly common in them actually to do how hormonal they can be

BUT, I now have a dun cuckoo d'anver to do it to the extreme!

she laid well and produced beautiful chciks last year.

this fall when she molted, I noticed a few odd hackles on her coming in.

Here's where I wish I had of take progress pics  if I had of known .

as she feathered back in, she grew a bull neck hackle, saddles, tail angle went up and filled in fully as a rooster.

she freaking crowed this morning, spurred me, and then bred a hen!!  And when I say crowed, I mean full on adult male crow, now a squeaky hen attempt.  But the breeding was icing on the cake.... If you didn't know better, you'd think she was a full on cock bird to look at her now.
The barring pattern even changed to the male type lines instead of the more rounded laced look hens normally carry.

anyway, just thought it was one of those crazy things that happen, and felt like sharing.

strange beyond belief

 

[K Epp]

Rusty and the girls enjoying this glorious weather. Its supposed to be 78* today.

 

[speckledhen]

Karen, those girls turned out so beautifully! And Rusty seems quite happy to be a free ranger now. I may do it again some day when my numbers are lower again. Aubrey, Penny, Carly and Aimee would remember it, though none of the others would.



Aubrey, that is too weird for words! Watch it, now. You are getting the oddballs and may end up with KLF at your place!

 

[chickee]

well, I wish I had of taken progress pics of this... kinda odd.

I have seen ovary damage in long tail fowl end up causing a testosterone over load in hens and cause the to get cock feathering. Fairly common in them actually to do how hormonal they can be

BUT, I now have a dun cuckoo d'anver to do it to the extreme!

she laid well and produced beautiful chciks last year.

this fall when she molted, I noticed a few odd hackles on her coming in.

Here's where I wish I had of take progress pics if I had of known .

as she feathered back in, she grew a bull neck hackle, saddles, tail angle went up and filled in fully as a rooster.

she freaking crowed this morning, spurred me, and then bred a hen!! And when I say crowed, I mean full on adult male crow, now a squeaky hen attempt. But the breeding was icing on the cake.... If you didn't know better, you'd think she was a full on cock bird to look at her now.
The barring pattern even changed to the male type lines instead of the more rounded laced look hens normally carry.

anyway, just thought it was one of those crazy things that happen, and felt like sharing.

WOW!

That is really freaky!! Hope that doesn't happen when my sweet dun cuckoo pullet when she goes through her first molt!

Speaking of oddities . . What do you think about the color on this chick? The other 3 Mille Fleur chick's color looks the same, but this MF chick that hatched on day 23 is a completely different color.


These are the other 3~

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Karen, those girls turned out so beautifully! And Rusty seems quite happy to be a free ranger now. I may do it again some day when my numbers are lower again. Aubrey, Penny, Carly and Aimee would remember it, though none of the others would.



Aubrey, that is too weird for words! Watch it, now. You are getting the oddballs and may end up with KLF at your place!

oh, God no.
I cant take the transgender chicken haha, but not the fungus!! lol