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

[DwayneNLiz]

I am not 100% sure of my memory but I think they all laid before 30 weeks of age. However, D'Anvers are not winter layers, generally. Most quit from October to February-March or so. Mine are terrible layers. Most of my hens are 5+ years old and just plain do not lay at all. Two haven't in literally years. My youngest is 3 years old and may have laid for her first year. She quit entirely after that. About a year ago, my best layer and broody, Aimee, produced a handful of eggs and her daughter, Mina, who is about 5 years old herself, laid 2-3 eggs. No one else has in maybe two years. Most of the time, if Aimee is in a laying spurt, she goes broody, but this last time, she didn't even do that.

I love them, they are awesome little birds, but I have plenty of pets that do lay so will let them die out and not have more. They are gorgeous, to me, one of the most beautiful bantam breeds, especially the colors I have, the mille fleur and porcelain, and they do well in heat and cold both. If they'd just lay even enough between the five hens to get up one bunch of hatching eggs occasionally for someone, it would be okay, but unfortunately, mine don't. I am grateful to have the experience with them, though. They were my one chosen bantam breed.

that stinks

i hope mine lays well, i got 4 eggs last night, one i know is from the roadrunner (silkie/oegb), 1 from my ee pullet, the 2 from who knows

lol they like to add mystery to my life

 

[Alaskan]

Mine have been good layers.

I am so far north, only a few breeds will lay in the winter without light... And my bantams get no light....

So, mine don't lay in the winter, but then none of my bantams do.

In spring and summer they lay well.

 

[chickee]

Boggy Bottom Bantam's . . Aubrey, in this last hatch of Mille Fleur chicks (parents are from your birds) one is a frizzle. Have you hatched any? It is adorable!!

 

[Alaskan]

My d'anvers are also from him.....

And yep, we hatched a bunch...


This summer a weasel ran through and tried to kill everything .... But I still have enough for breeding..

 

[speckledhen]

@Boggy Bottom Bantams Calling Aubrey! Just wanted to say hello. Do you realize that my porcelain rooster and the three original hens (Aimee, Penny and Carly) are five-and-a-half years old? I have only Aubrey and Spike, the three original hens, plus two of Aimee's daughters now. They get to free range every other day. Hope you and your family are well.

Hope you survived the hurricane!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

My Danver got best cock in show over the weekend at our local fair

 

[chickee]

My Danver got best cock in show over the weekend at our local fair 

Congratulations!

I want to see a picture.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Congratulations!

I want to see a picture.

thats the unfortunate thing, when i went to pick them up i was going to take a picture but they had been sold
so i have no picture

oops
now i know

 

[showmanshiptop]

Hello, I'm new. I bought some birds from Aubrey this summer. I love how they are right now. My one warning is the postal service. Aubrey probably knows about who I am, those birds have a show next weekend so I'll see truly what the judge has to say.

 

[speckledhen]

Hello, I'm new. I bought some birds from Aubrey this summer. I love how they are right now. My one warning is the postal service. Aubrey probably knows about who I am, those birds have a show next weekend so I'll see truly what the judge has to say.

I have three cockerels to a friend and customer awhile back. His son showed one (mille) and won so they have great potential. I would have shown my Spike if I did that sort of thing. He's pretty much perfect, conformation, color and comb. He got that spur-less gene and he's friendlier than most males I've had of this breed.