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

[K Epp]

Update on my gang. I'm afraid in the little ones I have 3 roos and 1 pullet. I'll try to get pics tomorrow.

Rusty and the girls are enjoying free ranging and he has settled down and not wanting to fight everyone. Not once since I have had them out has he gotten aggressive with me or the kids. He will probably never be a lap chicken, but he has found his comfort zone.

 

[speckledhen]

Update on my gang. I'm afraid in the little ones I have 3 roos and 1 pullet. I'll try to get pics tomorrow.

Rusty and the girls are enjoying free ranging and he has settled down and not wanting to fight everyone. Not once since I have had them out has he gotten aggressive with me or the kids. He will probably never be a lap chicken, but he has found his comfort zone.

Good about Rusty!

I started out with 4 cockerels and 3 pullets and it was fine for a very long time. They dont breed aggressively as some breeds do, seems to me.

 

[juliechick]

I bought my son a Black d'Anvers pullet at the National show in December. There was a couple upstairs selling quite a few d'Anvers. I don't remember their names. Does anyone know who it could have been?

The pullet won Reserve RCCL for us this last weekend.

 

[celeste110311]

I love these!

 

[celeste110311]

I breed black Danver. They are the sweetest birds

 

[dtran0268]

Pip but will not hatch and chick die, what could be the cause? I have three chicks die so far

 

[speckledhen]

Pip but will not hatch and chick die, what could be the cause? I have three chicks die so far

Did you open the eggs and check the condition of the chicks? I usually find a deformity of the chick if they pip but don't hatch. Sometimes, the legs are not right, sometimes the intestines are on the outside of the chick, sometimes, they just become so weak by the time they pip that they can't go any further. I haven't seen that in my D'Anvers but have in shipped eggs of my large fowl birds at times.

 

[dtran0268]

Did you open the eggs and check the condition of the chicks? I usually find a deformity of the chick if they pip but don't hatch. Sometimes, the legs are not right, sometimes the intestines are on the outside of the chick, sometimes, they just become so weak by the time they pip that they can't go any further. I haven't seen that in my D'Anvers but have in shipped eggs of my large fowl birds at times.

Thanks. I did some search on the internet and found out that I let the humidity get too high (60%) during the incubation. Next hatch I will watch the humidity better (around 40%) and only get up to 60% at lock down.

 

[speckledhen]

Ah, okay, if you had it that high during the first 18 days, that could have had a bearing on it, but then, if they actually pipped the egg, they did a fair job of getting to the end. Any deformity that stopped them from actually continuing the hatch, i.e., intestines on the outside, not absorbing the yolk properly, etc, could be a result of too high humidity, sure.

I have good luck generally keeping my humidity from 30-45% the first 18 days and 65-70% the last three.

 

[laseterlass]

Sally Sunshines Hatching 101 is an excellent article.