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

[gillyfleur]

Does anyone here eat the eggs from their d'Anvers? Just wondered!

When my chooks are in free range mode, the d'Anvers and d'Uccles hang out together, so I (obviously) don't keep any eggs for breeding purposes. So the d'Anvers are a 3 to 1 and the d'Uccles are a 2 to 1 exchange for a normal large egg. Taste great, like any other well cared for small allotment chicken egg!

 

[speckledhen]

Carly hatched her two babies, and she has a 3rd one, one that I saved from a murderous first time broody blue Rock. That hen crushed her first chick in the egg as it was zipping and I wasn't taking any chances. I gave the pipped egg to Carly, whose two chicks had already hatched (both Aimee's, as with Mina's two and my EE hen's, one is feather legged and one is clean legged, but all marked as Aimee's eggs).

So, Carly has one huge solid black chick, (a shocker since I thought it was a pure Delaware, but surprise!) and two little mille fleur D'anver babies. Aimee is sitting on two of her own, plus one belonging to my black Rock hen, sired by the Delaware rooster, due in a few days)

Mina and her two several days old chicks--yea for Mina, since this is her 4th or 5th time broody, but her first chicks ever. She's doing great, too.













Carly and her babies:

 

[chickee]

Carly hatched her two babies, and she has a 3rd one, one that I saved from a murderous first time broody blue Rock. That hen crushed her first chick in the egg as it was zipping and I wasn't taking any chances. I gave the pipped egg to Carly, whose two chicks had already hatched (both Aimee's, as with Mina's two and my EE hen's, one is feather legged and one is clean legged, but all marked as Aimee's eggs).

So, Carly has one huge solid black chick, (a shocker since I thought it was a pure Delaware, but surprise!) and two little mille fleur D'anver babies. Aimee is sitting on two of her own, plus one belonging to my black Rock hen, sired by the Delaware rooster, due in a few days)

Mina and her two several days old chicks--yea for Mina, since this is her 4th or 5th time broody, but her first chicks ever. She's doing great, too.













Carly and her babies:

SO adorable!! I love broodies with chicks!!

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Beautiful birds!

 

[chickee]

Aubrey, Here are some pictures of the khaki quail for you since you wanted to see how they were coming along. Getting so pretty, but what a color difference! The darker one has a comb like a boy. but the lighter, smaller one acts like a rooster! What do you think?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Carly hatched her two babies, and she has a 3rd one, one that I saved from a murderous first time broody blue Rock. That hen crushed her first chick in the egg as it was zipping and I wasn't taking any chances. I gave the pipped egg to Carly, whose two chicks had already hatched (both Aimee's, as with Mina's two and my EE hen's, one is feather legged and one is clean legged, but all marked as Aimee's eggs).

So, Carly has one huge solid black chick, (a shocker since I thought it was a pure Delaware, but surprise!) and two little mille fleur D'anver babies. Aimee is sitting on two of her own, plus one belonging to my black Rock hen, sired by the Delaware rooster, due in a few days)

Mina and her two several days old chicks--yea for Mina, since this is her 4th or 5th time broody, but her first chicks ever. She's doing great, too.













Carly and her babies:

man she's a pretty mama

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Aubrey, Here are some pictures of the khaki quail for you since you wanted to see how they were coming along. Getting so pretty, but what a color difference! The darker one has a comb like a boy. but the lighter, smaller one acts like a rooster! What do you think?

they sure are looking pretty. My male looks just like the darker one. I havent been lucky enough to get a girl yet so not 100% if there's a major difference there, got to be I'd think since the normal quail girls are usually much blacker, so the khakis should be much more khakier ( if thats a word) sure look good though..... remember, these to normal quail will give you 100% dun quail too

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I keep intending to post photos of the chicks I hatched from some of Kristin Ramsdell's eggs two weeks ago, but time is not working in my favor on that. I ended up with eight: one black, one white, a probably splash quail, three blue quail, one quail and what I am sure (for today) is a silver quail.

The splash quail and two of the blue quail are showing rusty shoulder feathering: is that a sign they're likely to be cockerels? I'd like to know so I can separate cockerels and start handling the splash one (if it is a cockerel) because the Chicken Calculater seems to indicate that would be the best choice to make a pen with a blue porcelein and a quail pullet (both of whom I already own) for interesting color outcomes.

Also, for the record: is white in d'Anvers dominant white?

 

[Jamie Douglas]

Do Belgium d'Anvers lay many eggs? I have a hen that is around +1 year old and she still hasn't latex? Help

 

[warmheart]

Elmer, at 3 weeks old, practicing his flying lessons!

Midas preening himself on my arm...

Smokey calmly watching over the chicks, unless they get too active-- then he turns his back to face away from them!

Emmaline's red-colored comb makes me suspect she's in fact an Emmet, what do you think?

Funny how breast and head are the last places to feather-out...

Three weeks old means flying lessons...

My sweet, friendly Elmer still loves my shoulder, but here he is hunting for bugs in the grass... and He. Is. HUGE!! I keep threatening to re-name him CHUNK!

Midas and Josefina explore together...

Josefina is in the photo above, and here on the left... both she and Elmer have many, many beautiful black speckles on their backs!

Sunshine, clover flowers, and Barbu d'Anvers... what a great afternoon we all had!

Josefina (not sold on the name yet) has gone from flighty, independant to a snuggler when she's tired of her adventures. She is coming to really trust me, and I so love her. A good thing, too-- because it may be that we have FIVE roosters and just one hen, her!

Okay, I'm off to go out again with the d'Anvers babies. We go out 2 times per day in the fenced yard or garden. Midas snagged an earthworm yesterday!

Off to go spoil them some more!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I keep intending to post photos of the chicks I hatched from some of Kristin Ramsdell's eggs two weeks ago, but time is not working in my favor on that. I ended up with eight: one black, one white, a probably splash quail, three blue quail, one quail and what I am sure (for today) is a silver quail.

The splash quail and two of the blue quail are showing rusty shoulder feathering: is that a sign they're likely to be cockerels? I'd like to know so I can separate cockerels and start handling the splash one (if it is a cockerel) because the Chicken Calculater seems to indicate that would be the best choice to make a pen with a blue porcelein and a quail pullet (both of whom I already own) for interesting color outcomes.

Also, for the record: is white in d'Anvers dominant white?

yes rusty shoulders are almost always males, and no NORMAL white in d'anver is recessive white over black. Only exception would be the dominate whites I have bred into them, a few others have a couple like this but it's almost always in a pattern like red pyles or goldnecks. The solid whites in the d'anver world are always recesive unless they are from a genetics breeder who created them as dominates for project work