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

[speckledhen]

if you happen to have a picture that would be wonderful. Because I am trying to decide weather to get RC light brown leghorn bantams or buff Colombian d'anvers. Any recommendations?

At the moment, I don't have a photo of the smallest one they lay. This is one of the larger ones they lay next to large and extra large LF eggs.

 

[K Epp]

Cyn. I have a broody Silkie and no pure eggs to ho under her. Do you have 6-8 eggs I can buy to give her?

 

[speckledhen]

Cyn. I have a broody Silkie and no pure eggs to ho under her. Do you have 6-8 eggs I can buy to give her?

I don't have any bantam eggs at all, Karen. The only eggs I could get might be LF eggs from the main flock, if you want those. They are extra large, though. That one came from the fridge. I could see what I have in the fridge, but I think there is only one in there. I have hatched eggs from the fridge before, but you'd want more than one or two.

 

[K Epp]

Thanks. I may try giving her some quail eggs and see how that goes.

 

[speckledhen]

I checked. I have only one egg and it's been in the fridge since yesterday. I have maybe two hens laying in the bantam coop, but they aren't laying every day.

 

[Yoyo with chick]

At the moment, I don't have a photo of the smallest one they lay. This is one of the larger ones they lay next to large and extra large LF eggs.

Thanks! Their pretty small. Also how often do the lay?

 

[speckledhen]

Well, they are not big winter layers at all. Some just quit until February/March. When they are in laying mode, they usually lay every other day or every two to three days. When they are just starting, you may get an egg every day for a few days, then they'll skip a couple.


Sissy just laid an egg. If Maura lays today, I'll have 3 eggs you could just have, Karen.

Also, at 5 and 6 weeks of age, I see only two definite males in the seven chicks, one porcelain and one mille. I'm thinking another porcelain may be a late blooming male just from the shape of the comb, but could be wrong.


Maura did lay, Karen, so I have three eggs, but that isn't enough, I guess. No idea if any will lay tomorrow.


Here are photos of some of the chicks.
mille male


Porcelain male

Porcelain pullet


I think this Mille is a pullet, but nothing is 100% for at least another week or so.

 

[FairLeaBantams]

Here's another pic of my little d'anvers/D'uccle mix. He is so adorable!! Tons of personality too. He looks like a lavender to me, which is perplexing because his mom is a quail d'anvers and dad is a blue mottled mille d'uccle with gold bleed-through. I don't think I will ever understand the color genetics.

 

[speckledhen]

Okay, JJ and other veterans of the breed, I thought I had three porcelain pullets, one mille cockerel and one mille pullet, but I do now think I have a late blooming second mille cockerel and a porcelain cockerel in here. I need to know because I have a customer I've offered them to and I would like to let her know exactly what we have here, if possible. They are six and seven weeks old now.











This is the suspected late blooming mille male-fooled me because it had some patterning in the shoulder feathers.

 

[chickee]

Out of Aubrey's pen that produces Dun (chocolate) Mottled, I hatched out black, black mottled, blue mottled, 1 chocolate mottled. My question is . . . I hatched 3 black (possible split to mottled) 1 black (showing slight mottling) and 1 blue mottled cockerels. Which one(s) would give me the best chance of producing more chocolate mottled offspring when bred to my chocolate and black mottled pullets?

Feedback would be appreciated!

Some of the chicks from my BBB hatch and my hatch of khaki quail and solid khaki pullets. They are around 12 and 16 weeks old~ Yay, my MF are getting spots now!