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

[speckledhen]

Took this cute picture today of one of the Mille Fleur D'Anver males standing up to the BR cockerel I'm keeping from this hatch:

One of the porcelains:

 

[flower]

Are any of the d'Anver colors maked at birth so they can be sexed. Maybe the crele but any others, I am just curious as most of use like to know the gender as early as possible.

 

[speckledhen]

I know that the Mille Fleur and the Porcelains are not.

 

[flower]

Speckeld Hen you pic of the MF "male" is about three weeks old ? And that most like is just a pretty good guess from Aubrey ?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

was a guess at 2 weeks, 100% male now though.

no, no d'anver is sex linked not even the crele, all are 100% alike at hatch no difference at all, time is the only sex indicator on them

 

[flower]

Oh well now I know. And I now longer need to wonder. I'll keep reading and asking questions so I'll be somewhat prepared for mine own d"anvers. They sure sound like a great all around bantam, beautiful and spunky little buggers !

 

[speckledhen]

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That male is actually 4 1/2 wks old in that pic.

 

[chicken boy sam]

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That male is actually 4 1/2 wks old in that pic.

It looks like in that pic the male has yellow legs.... Is that true or is it just the picture? If so, it is a defect

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

They are actually very pale blue and spotted, the chick next to it is yellow legged. On the mottled and barred birds, this is very common and not unexpected. You can go back and look at all the pics, if they are mottled and or cuckoo/ barred based colors , they usually arent very dark legged. My porcelains are, but they are the exception. This leg coloring is genetic to the feather colors and not much you can do about it. Barred and cuckko birds will have red/pink skin everywhere (that's why the silkie people can never get a true silkie in cuckoo all will have red combs)
mottled birds will have a washed out color to the legs, but will usually be mottled with darker patches in them. Mottled legs also darken with age, just like their body color gets better with age. Barred/cuckoos will not however, they stay pale always. Yes, a true yellow would be a DQ for a judge, but the pale blues and mottled legs are excepted.
Hope that helped a bit with mottled and barred leg colors.

 

[speckledhen]

Aubrey is correct, the legs are not yellow. If they seem that way, must be a trick of the light in the picture.