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

[Banty Girl]

No, I can't go to the show... But if you really are interested, then maybe we could set up a date and time and meet somewhere in between Oregon and Washington. I'll bring the birds so you can pick the ones you want.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

So, is this a Silver Mille, JJ and Aubrey? Inquiring minds want to know.

I don't think so. A silver millie would be mostly white. Picture your millies with all the reddish color being white, that would be a silver millie. White bird with black chevrons on the ends of the feathers with a white tip. Not sure what you got there, maybe Aubrey has seen something like it. Here is the closest thing I have hatched and it turned out to be a real dark silver quail.

 

[speckledhen]

Yes, you're right, I did mean to say silver quail, not silver mille, sorry. I always mix up my terms. I saw some of the goldish color on some of the feathers on her chick. Will be interesting what develops on that one. When it was a few days old, I told LH it looked like a quail chick after rechecking some photos of D'Anver chicks in various color patterns, but can you even get a quail coloring from out of what she has?

 

[Cetawin]

 
Yes, you're right, I did mean to say silver quail, not silver mille, sorry. I always mix up my terms.  I saw some of the goldish color on some of the feathers on her chick. Will be interesting what develops on that one. When it was a few days old, I told LH it looked like a quail chick after rechecking some photos of D'Anver chicks in various color patterns, but can you even get a quail coloring from out of what she has?

If they say it cannot happen...it will happen here. 

Just like this cross (you gave me the egg)...had it hatched at your house it would not look this way....Delaware roo over a blue splash ameraucana hen....I get this.....meet Storm

No color generator gives me that as a result!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Yes, you're right, I did mean to say silver quail, not silver mille, sorry. I always mix up my terms. I saw some of the goldish color on some of the feathers on her chick. Will be interesting what develops on that one. When it was a few days old, I told LH it looked like a quail chick after rechecking some photos of D'Anver chicks in various color patterns, but can you even get a quail coloring from out of what she has?

been gone fishing for a while, just got in and saw this. The chick pic looked mille ish, but that head pattern now is quail looking, but still not 100% correct. With all the genetics floating around, man it could be anything, but if I had to take a wild stab at it, silver quail would be the closest I could guess on it's current color. IF that is silver it's showing, hard for me to see it good on here.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

If they say it cannot happen...it will happen here.

Just like this cross (you gave me the egg)...had it hatched at your house it would not look this way....Delaware roo over a blue splash ameraucana hen....I get this.....meet Storm




No color generator gives me that as a result!

1 copy of barred over a silver base looks like

 

[Cetawin]

Well that could explain it. The Delaware white is a silver base I believe and they have the barring gene but where would the blue splash fit in or would it just be over written?

 

[speckledhen]

Well that could explain it. The Delaware white is a silver base I believe and they have the barring gene but where would the blue splash fit in or would it just be over written?

Remember that a splash color is just genetically black, with the addition of two blue genes to fade it to a pearly white.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Three more out of the silver millie project. one of them is different.

 

[Cetawin]

ooohhhh JJ has an oddity.....it belongs here obviously...the Menagerie is home to all the oddities.

JJ here is a laugh for you. My fearless flock leader (14lbs of Blue Orpington), Sir Lancelot, comes up to me the other day and keeps holding his foot up, looking at it and then looking at me and then his foot, then me and so I scoop him up...okay haul him up into my lap to check out his foot. Once in my lap I come to the realization that he is just too danged big to hold and me see the bottom of his foot.....besides my lap is not big enough, there is rooster hanging over both sides. So, I get ingenious and lay him on the swing seat next to me and lay him on his side and proceed to tell him "Lancelot hold still and let me see your foot."

I proceed to check his feet, toes, pads, legs and I realize he is not moving around trying to see what I am doing any longer. I look at him and he is stretched out, head almost hanging off the swing seat and he is FAST ASLEEP! I realized I had just been conned into giving a rooster a foot massage! So, I snarked off at him "Oh Hell No, I am not sitting around giving you a foot massage...get down". He was disgruntled to have his spa time ended but he was very pleased with himself too. This bird is spoiled rotten and knows how to get what he wants from me and he shamelessly does. Ask Cyn...she can tell you, he is a mess! But he is an oddity...an excellent rooster but also odd. LOL