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

[chickee]

What's normal for the males of this breed? In the morning mine is set to tear into me, but by the afternoon he's calm and perfectly sweet.

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And because why not, I have more pictures.

So cute! And I love their color!

Most of my roosters like to threaten me but have learned pretty quick not to "mess" with me! A couple of them that get picked on by the other roosters come running to me for protection.

My MF and porcelain roosters from Aubrey are the calmest and least aggressive of all the colors.

 

[speckledhen]

They vary from raging pitbull to pussycat, but most are somewhere in between. Aubrey used to sneak attack every chance he got, but he has decided it's not worth all that effort in his later years (almost 4 yrs old). He still is a pain, will attack if I bring camera or phone in the coop/pen with me and sometimes, just because he feels like it, but he rarely goes to the extent of actual flogging anymore. He loves to threaten a lot. Spike only nips my fingers if I don't get the scratch mix out of the jar fast enough for him. Otherwise, he's a sweetheart.

 

[K Epp]

I wonder if its there surroundings affect their level of aggression. Rusty2 free ranges here. He and the girls have their own coop. There are 4 LF roos and 11 bantam roos out there free ranging at the same time. He isn't picked on, but defiantly not the top roo. One only time he show aggression is if I'm not thinking and go rushing through the middle of the flock. Then he just puffs up he's telling me to get away from his girls.

To the best of my knowledge the Pitt is gone. I don't expect to be reimbursed the cost of the birds lost. If the dog is gone I'm not happy, but can deal with it.

 

[speckledhen]

I wonder if its there surroundings affect their level of aggression. Rusty2 free ranges here. He and the girls have their own coop. There are 4 LF roos and 11 bantam roos out there free ranging at the same time. He isn't picked on, but defiantly not the top roo. One only time he show aggression is if I'm not thinking and go rushing through the middle of the flock. Then he just puffs up he's telling me to get away from his girls.

To the best of my knowledge the Pitt is gone. I don't expect to be reimbursed the cost of the birds lost. If the dog is gone I'm not happy, but can deal with it.

I want to free range my bantams more, certainly, and I think that has a lot to do with Rusty2 being calmer at your place, Karen.

I have several folks lined up for D'Anver eggs after posting them for sale on a local FB yard sale group so there is a market for them around here. They are unusual enough that people are clamoring for them, more than I can supply with my few hens laying and Lucy being a non-participant (bad Lucy).

 

[K Epp]

Not if they are from both porcelain parents...
Doesnt matter what they had in them. If they are borh porcelain they only make porcleian

Porcelain to mille makes all mille split for lavender

Porcelain to a split lav mille makes porcelain and milles aplit for lavender

Mille split by mille split makes porcelain, mille, and more split lav milles

I need to get pictures of my pair. I'm wondering if they are lavender instead of porcelain. I have porcelain d'Uccle and their color looks different. I keep waiting on them to get spots.

 

[speckledhen]

I need to get pictures of my pair. I'm wondering if they are lavender instead of porcelain. I have porcelain d'Uccle and their color looks different. I keep waiting on them to get spots.

You mean the pair you got from me, Karen? I've never gotten any lavenders from these at all. I've love to see the pictures. They'd carry the lavender gene, being porcelain, but how they'd skip the mottled gene wouldn't make sense. Pics, pics!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Both lavender and mottled are recessive genes. So if a bird was used that didnt show both, theyd be split for both. At that point. Chicks could get one or the other. Neither, or both. Depends on what they were mated to.
But yeah, pics would help.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

And yeah, it takes time for the mottling to start showing too.

 

[chickee]

Aubrey, What are my chances of getting some dun mottled chicks out of my dun mottled pullet x blue mottled rooster that came from the same pen?

 

[K Epp]

Well I went out and this is the best pic I could get with out help. Cyn was trying to crawl up on my head and Gus was tunning from one end of the cage to the other because she had left him. She is a card and he is more reserved.

I'll get better pics tomorrow. He isn't as yellow as the light makes him look.