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

[ShadowsFIAL]

Is there any way to sex young d'anver chicks or is it basically a waiting game like a lot of breeds? I just had 8 lil ones hatch out yesterday.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Is there any way to sex young d'anver chicks or is it basically a waiting game like a lot of breeds? I just had 8 lil ones hatch out yesterday.

The quail colors are easy but you will have to give them a few weeks.


Here are three silver quail, pullet in the middle you can tell by the lacing on her back. Males on the out side, no laced back and white on their shoulders. Normal quail are the same except the white will be reddish gold.

 

[ShadowsFIAL]

The quail colors are easy but you will have to give them a few weeks.


Here are three silver quail, pullet in the middle you can tell by the lacing on her back. Males on the out side, no laced back and white on their shoulders. Normal quail are the same except the white will be reddish gold.

Thanks much! I guess I should have just asked you in pm! I didn't want to pester you though haha. I can't wait. I will be sending you updated pictures as they grow!

 

[speckledhen]

based off all that solid gold color coming in it the breast and shoulders, Its a boy

See, I didn't notice that, was only going on the comb for my quickie guess. I need to stick with colors I know, LOL.

 

[laseterlass]

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Is there any way to sex young d'anver chicks or is it basically a waiting game like a lot of breeds? I just had 8 lil ones hatch out yesterday.

 

[K Epp]

Thanks much! I guess I should have just asked you in pm! I didn't want to pester you though haha. I can't wait. I will be sending you updated pictures as they grow!

I'm glad you ask on here. I learned something.

 

[K Epp]

The quail colors are easy but you will have to give them a few weeks. Here are three silver quail, pullet in the middle you can tell by the lacing on her back. Males on the out side, no laced back and white on their shoulders. Normal quail are the same except the white will be reddish gold.

Does that work with Milli Fluer as well?

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Millies are a little harder, but the males tend to be redder in the wing bows and generally a little redder all over.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

that's right, outside of quail colors, and especially solids, you just have to wait. No trick to it, they'll be what they are eventually. A lot of people want to comb sex them, that generally works for single combed breeds, but in pea and rose combed breeds, it means little for chick sexing. Feather sexing of these is the only sure fire way to know, and it just takes time is all.

once you start to see pointed saddle or hackle feathers, THEN you know you have a boy.
as JJ mentions, the quail color has it's laced trick. and the buff Columbian based colors, quail, mille, and of course buff Columbians have the red in the wing bow area on the males. Females will only be pale buff. If you ever see the redder areas on the shoulders, that's a boy version of feather sexing.

cuckoo, you can tell at the hatch based off the size of the head dot they have. That's the only variety that works on though.

All others, you have to wait til adult plumage starts to come in on, anything pointed is boy, rounded is girl.

red combs, or bigger combs generally means boy, but in rose comb breeds is at best only 75% accurate, so I don't put much faith in it.

let 'em be a baby for a while, and one day you'll look at them and see it clear as a bell

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

oh, and if you are luck enough to have any duckwing based colors. The trick on them is black breast = male salmon/pinkish breast = female.
takes a while to get to that point in them though, hackles and saddles will becoming in about the same time