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

[speckledhen]

Check out these two Aimee babies. The clean legged one is a definite cockerel, IMO. The one with KLF (Kentucky Leg Fungus, for those who don't know our slang around these parts) has clean buff shoulder feathers, no patterning like you see much of the time with pullets, but I am not 100% convinced it's a cockerel. What do you think? I know at just over two weeks old, it's still early. Click and look closely.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Two roosters, well they would be if I hatched them.

 

[speckledhen]

Two roosters, well they would be if I hatched them.

Probably are right there. Someone says she wants them both when Aimee is sick of them so they may have homes already. If they'd been pullets, a friend who has several birds from me, including a few D'Anver roosters, would have been pretty happy, but alas, the rooster curse.

 

[bhj123]

It should be Mille Fleur then. How many chicks hatched and what colors did you get?

Here are what my MF chicks looked like from BBB. No stripes. They are gorgeous as adults!! One of my favorite colors!

Mine are very definitively striped.

 

[speckledhen]

oooh, chickee, I see Kentucky Leg Fungus on one of your chicks!! Haha!


I have all sorts of shades of milles hatch. Some have very dark backs on them, can't recall actual stripes, but it's been ages since I hatched a good number of them.

 

[chickee]

oooh, chickee, I see Kentucky Leg Fungus on one of your chicks!! Haha!


I have all sorts of shades of milles hatch. Some have very dark backs on them, can't recall actual stripes, but it's been ages since I hatched a good number of them.

Yes, that one ended up being a rooster and the best of the bunch so I kept him. You can barely see any "fungus" on his legs. He is the sweetest boy too! never has been aggressive.

How is Aimee? Poor thing!!

 

[chickee]

Mine are very definitively striped.

Maybe that means yours will be girls

I had 4 hatch and 3 turned out to be boys.

What other colors hatched?

 

[speckledhen]

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Let me see if I can type this again-stupid router is being a PITA.

You must mean Maura. We did do the needle thing this morning and aspirated a bunch of blood tinged fluid from the area, which continued to seep for awhile. She was a sweet patient but obviously does not feel well. After a round of Cipro and trying to drain something from it, I know I'm out of options. Her body has to take over and fight this, if that's possible. I've seen cysts on hens, but below the vent, not around the oil gland. It's either a cyst or tumor, I think. I feel if it was infection from an injury, the antibiotic would have fixed that.

 

[chickee]

Let me see if I can type this again-stupid router is being a PITA.

You must mean Maura. We did do the needle thing this morning and aspirated a bunch of blood tinged fluid from the area, which continued to seep for awhile. She was a sweet patient but obviously does not feel well. After a round of Cipro and trying to drain something from it, I know I'm out of options. Her body has to take over and fight this, if that's possible. I've seen cysts on hens, but below the vent, not around the oil gland. It's either a cyst or tumor, I think. I feel if it was infection from an injury, the antibiotic would have fixed that.

Ooops, yes Maura. I sure hope she fights it and recovers! I would think if it was blood tinged fluid that means a cyst and not a tumor. So upsetting when you have a sick animal. I am treating a Silkie chick for Wry Neck right now. Fortunately I found good information on treatment and he is getting better.

 

[speckledhen]

Quote: I am thinking some sort of cyst as well. I hope your Silkie recovers. Usually vitamin treatment seems to work. Maura is so beautiful, the daughter of Mina, who is the daughter of Aimee, and she's my only porcelain hen. Mina is 1/2 porcelain, visually mille. I do hate to lose my only porcelain hen.