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

[K Epp]

The babies are enjoying some of this glorious sunshine.

Funny how they were scared to death of me when I would open their cage, but now they are like toddlers running back to me when they get do far away. I set 3 eggs in the Easter hatch off.

 

[speckledhen]

They look great, Karen!

 

[broodyhen2]

The white in d'anvers is recessive white, which will cover any color hiding under the white. But to answer your question the chicks will most likely be black each carrying a copy of recessive white. It takes two copies of recessive white to make a white bird.

sorry im new to all this. so your saying if a black roo breeds with a white hen the offspring will either be black chicks or white chicks, no mix
thanks for the taking the time to reply

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Quote: The white hen is white because she carries two recessive white genes. When crossed with a black she will pass only one recessive white gene to the chicks. One recessive white gene will not make a white chicken, it takes two of them. So the chicks will most likely be black. However, the hen can be anything and it will be covered by the recessive white. I think the only thing she could have that would show for sure in the chicks would be barring which would make all the male chicks barred. If she were barred under the white her legs would be light colored. If her legs are slate she is not hiding any barring. Most likely she is black with two recessive genes, that is what proper recessive white chickens usually are. So again the chicks will be black. Now since each chick has a copy of recessive white, if they were crossed to each other you would get 75% black chicks and 25% white with 2/3 of the black chicks carrying a recessive gene .If one was crossed with his mother you would get 50% black and 50% white with all the black chicks carrying a recessive white gene. If this doesn't make sense feel free to ask questions until it does.

jj

 

[broodyhen2]

So yor saying the chicks will most likely be black with or without barring underneath and there is a chance of a pure white chick???

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

So yor saying the chicks will most likely be black with or without barring underneath and there is a chance of a pure white chick???

None. unless your rooster has a recessive white gene, which is possible.

 

[speckledhen]

Just think of recessive white as a magical paint that, when you breed the bird, strips off and reveals what was under the paint in the chick. Most genes take two to express, meaning show the trait visibly, one from each parent. Sometimes, you just have to breed a bird to know what genes are hiding/lurking. It's not like mixing paint, a combination of colors, like a black rooster over a white hen gives you a gray or a mottled chick. Just doesn't work that way.

There are some rare exceptions to that, like a hen that came out of my Delaware flock who was genetically tested to reveal that she carried TWO copies of a dwarfing gene. She was a big hen, but if she had been reproduced, she would have produced dwarfs, unfortunately.

 

[hiddenacres]

hey Aubrey i have had my eggs in the incubator since thursday the 27 and i candled today. 3 are for sure alive and 5 are iffy and two of them have detached air cells by the looks of things. Can the chicks still hatch with the detatched air cell? Well i am planning on candling later on maybe next week for final answers on if they are alive or not.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Silly me, I hadn't thought about the breed thread here on BYC.

I order 12 d'Anvers and 6 SDW phoenix eggs from Boggy Bottom, today was lock down. They are doing fantastic!!!

Is anyone toying with partridge d'Anvers?

 

[chickee]

Silly me, I hadn't thought about the breed thread here on BYC.

I order 12 d'Anvers and 6 SDW phoenix eggs from Boggy Bottom, today was lock down. They are doing fantastic!!!

Is anyone toying with partridge d'Anvers?

I wondered why I hadn't seen you on here

I just candled my eggs and 20 out of 24 are growing!! That is amazing! 2 porcelain and 2 dun mottled are clears.

Thanks Aubrey!!!!