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

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

On showing quail, the hardest thing to get right is color and pattern. They are an easy breed to work with and I have hundreds in people hands that are now showing. Problem is there are tons of them out there. Some people breed correctly for the color and pattern, others have made a mess out of them . Best advise I can give is, familiarise yourself with the color and be sure to start with good stock . Stay away from any hatcheries, those are jokes. Pick some good starters and they'll have a ball with it. Solid colors are much easier to work with as a begining shower. Black, white, self blue, and blue are all easy and in the standards. With those youbdont have all the dine points as in quail to keep up with. Lacing , shafting, hackle, saddles, breast, wing pattern , etc. On the solids its just a solid color over then full bird. Either way, good luck

 

[zach N houdan]

On showing quail, the hardest thing to get right is color and pattern. They are an easy breed to work with and I have hundreds in people hands that are now showing. Problem is there are tons of them out there. Some people breed correctly for the color and pattern, others have made a mess out of them . Best advise I can give is, familiarise yourself with the color and be sure to start with good stock . Stay away from any hatcheries, those are jokes. Pick some good starters and they'll have a ball with it. Solid colors are much easier to work with as a begining shower. Black, white, self blue, and blue are all easy and in the standards. With those youbdont have all the dine points as in quail to keep up with. Lacing , shafting, hackle, saddles, breast, wing pattern , etc. On the solids its just a solid color over then full bird. Either way, good luck

My Lines are out of Karen Unrath and the Fields. I have been breeding Quails for 5 years and when i first got into them Karen helped me place my pairs together to get the best offspring possible. I know patterns are hard to perfect but i talked to two of the three judges after the show who have been judging for 20+ years and they both said that she had the head and beard most D'Anvers are lacking now a days and her lacing was excellent. In the open show i beat out over 20 D'Anvers and half were solids.

 

[Hens and Roos]

thanks for sharing the information, it's appreciated!- we are still in the deciding stage to figure out which way to go

 

[HacklePineAcres]

Hey peeps! I just got some new chickens from a lady locally. They are not D'anver, but D'uccle. So I figure who better to ask then you guys for color help!

I was thinking the colors and what not cant be that far off from the D'anver, so here goes... thanks in advance for any help!

The lady I got these from said that the Millie and the White are hatched from the Golden Neck group. Is that possible? How did it happen and what does that mean for the colors in the back round of these birds?

Are the red and white ones Golden Necks? Or something else? Thanks guys



The little millie has blue colored feathers where the black should be, and not very much of it on her body. Is she is a blue millie or just badly colored? The white is full white, not another spot of color on her. Will she throw whites and Golden Necks?



And the other pair I got, Porcelain All these birds were $40! Good deal I think! The oldest I was told is 2 Yrs old.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

The only way I can think of to get a blue millie out of that bunch is, if one of them is actually a splash millie and the opposite sex is a gold neck with only one copy of dominate white. The rooster looks to have a little black in his tail, that can mean only one copy of dominate white. See any blue-ish tint in any of the females? The white has to be recessive white I think, which would mean that two of them have a copy of recessive white.

 

[HacklePineAcres]

I'll have to check the rooster again for black, but I know FOR SURE one of those hens does have a couple black spots on her body and tail! She must be the one producing the mf color.

I'll get a better pic of her too so you can see the spots.

Thank you JJ

 

[speckledhen]

Since my porcelain hen is the only one laying now, I guess I'm out of hatching eggs for the foreseeable future. I have about 9 eggs in the collection in the basement, if someone wants to pick them up here for free, but there will be no more collected this year. Penny has not laid in a full year and Lucy in almost as long-are they just DONE? Penny will be 3 in April and Lucy, if I recall, will be 2 soon, if she isn't already. Aimee laid a few eggs, post broody period, and Mina did, but then went into a molt and hasn't started back again. Carly, same deal. The pullets, who are 20-22 weeks, are periodically checking out nests.


Hey, JJ, you won the men's part of the Blue Roo Creations contest! Go over there and pick your prize and get your address to one of us. Guess taking your time to make those selections paid off!

 

[zach N houdan]

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[HacklePineAcres]

My fiance did this first breeder pen for our chickens, do you think its okay for the winter? The inside is fenced and plastic covered so it has insulation. Going to make some adjustments on the other three, but its good for someone who has never built anything for chickens ever... right? lol I love it!!!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

My Lines are out of Karen Unrath and the Fields. I have been breeding Quails for 5 years and when i first got into them Karen helped me place my pairs together to get the best offspring possible. I know patterns are hard to perfect but i talked to two of the three judges after the show who have been judging for 20+ years and they both said that she had the head and beard most D'Anvers are lacking now a days and her lacing was excellent. In the open show i beat out over 20 D'Anvers and half were solids.   

Was answering Hens n Roos question Zach. Wasn't talking to you. But I stand behind what I said. Without knowing what you are doing or having someone to coach you along the way, pattern birds can be very hard for a beginner to perfect and do well with. It all helps too to start with show stock too though. Hard to make show birds out of hatchery stock.