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

[speckledhen]

D'anver males make fabulous fathers. Spike is wonderful with babies. He does become a little flustered when large fowl chicks begin to bypass him in size by about 8-9 weeks old, though. With the last batch, I think he decided he was living in a land of giants, LOL. When he's unsettled, he runs around making this Olive Oyl "wringing her hands" sound, which is hysterical,

 

[speckledhen]

Where is everyone? Hellooooooo! LOL

My last two D'Anver chicks, 9 weeks old. They will be leaving for their new home on Monday.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

I have a few young ones left.

 

[speckledhen]

Ha, a few???


We're losing Jenny. I believe she has a neck injury. It's obviously painful, she has no control, can't stand well, it lolls to her back, her eyes are glazed over. Saw her in the pen acting odd yesterday, unbalanced, holding her neck funny. Giving her aspirin dissolved in water through an eye dropper with some raw honey for energy and to kill the aspirin taste. Hope we dont lose her. We spent so much time trying to save her as a chick.

 

[NanaKat]

Enjoyed all the pictures...just popped in to catch up and say "Hello".

 

[speckledhen]

Hi, Kathryn! Hope you're doing well.

Had to put Jenny down. She was constantly seizing, head curling over her back and in obvious pain. It was obvious it was a devastating injury and she wasn't coming back from it. Just wish I knew how she hurt herself.

Now, I'm down to 7 hens and 2 roosters and 0 chicks in the bantam coop.

 

[mystil]

Hello Guys
Im new to the D'anver breed.

My mum bought two Cuckoo D'anver hens last year and loved them so much she wanted more.

One died so I volunteered one of my bantams (not a D'anver) for her to put some D'anver eggs under as the hens were really expensive to buy. She is not allowed a cockerel as she lives in rented housing.

We now have 4 chicks which are growing up fast. However because I have not had this breed before I was not sure what to look out for to see what sex they are. 3 of them have very upright tails (which I assume they will all have) with three just starting to get some colour on their comb. They are 18 days old.

Can you tell at this age?

Also does anyone have any pics to compare male & female around this age?

Thanks
Liza

 

[Silkies100]

Hi everyone im new to this site and new to danvers i have 4 quail coloured hens and a birchen coceral if i croosed them what colour would i get hope to hatch them mext year thanks plz jus reply to this or send me a pm it would be easier for me to find it if you pm'd me thanks (not great on the computer ) and i love the pics of the birds

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Hello Guys
Im new to the D'anver breed.

My mum bought two Cuckoo D'anver hens last year and loved them so much she wanted more.

One died so I volunteered one of my bantams (not a D'anver) for her to put some D'anver eggs under as the hens were really expensive to buy. She is not allowed a cockerel as she lives in rented housing.

We now have 4 chicks which are growing up fast. However because I have not had this breed before I was not sure what to look out for to see what sex they are. 3 of them have very upright tails (which I assume they will all have) with three just starting to get some colour on their comb. They are 18 days old.

Can you tell at this age?

Also does anyone have any pics to compare male & female around this age?

Thanks
Liza

about 3 month too early to tell. takes time is all. I'm not sure what page it's all on, but I have dozen upon dozens of d'anver varieties listed on here. They are also all on my website and Face Book page. Same name as my user name here for both. Over 40 different ones.

If they are all cuckoo, and were bred cuckoo to cuckoo, the hens will feather out black barred looking and the males will be a grey barred look. At day old age, the head spot of cuckoos is different by sex too, big bold patch is one, faint skimpy white area is the other, I cant remember which is which though, sorry. But that's only good right at hatch time any way

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Hi everyone im new to this site and new to danvers i have 4 quail coloured hens and a birchen coceral if i croosed them what colour would i get hope to hatch them mext year thanks plz jus reply to this or send me a pm it would be easier for me to find it if you pm'd me thanks (not great on the computer )

and i love the pics of the birds

well, welcome to both the site and the breed.
Aside from extended black, birchen is the most dominate gene out there, so all would be birchen as it would over ride the Columbian gene in the quail.
They would most likely be a bit off in color though due to the genes that make up the quail color being present.
crossing these chicks to each other would make a few of both colors, but the bulk would still be birchen