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

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep Clint,
That's what did on the cuckoos, cuckoo to dun quail hens, was kinda thinking along the same results with them.
The crele projects are looking good too, the cuckoos that resulted from that are showing a good bit of red leakage in them already, so next year should do the trick, also hoping they will thrwo silver duckings, the calculator shows that at least for the F2 cross.

Yes, I used the OEG's on the bb red d'anvers for the red pyle projects. also have some silver, gold and buff laced OEG's chicks from this year that will start the laced d'anver project for next year. Gold and buff once to millie fluer shows the laced on the f1's in the calculator (fingers crossed) Think the silver quail will be the way to go on the silver laced though.

Once I get threw with the dun cuckoo project, those duns will be headed to the silver quail pen, LOL had already thought of that, figured since I was working lavender and blue into them, might as well get the dun in them too. Since both are alreadt in the quail pattern, like you said, getting the dun in them should be fairly easy.

Aslo have some goldnecks I am going to cross into the millies next year...

 

[joe17]

ohh Boggy bantams, what do you use as breeding pens? I saw a pair in a cage with hay as the bedding in one of your pictures. I need ideas for my silkie breeding pens! Thanks!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep that one is about 4 years old, and was a temporary pen.
Here's a pic of the newer runs. they are two sided(open full run on each side of the houses) 4' wide and 12' deep per pen, work really well for all these and arent too expensive to build.
Lots of breeders use large off the ground brooder style pens too but they would take up a ton of space in a larger scale.
Like I have them, they share both sides and walls of houses too to cut cost a bit.

Right now I have 36 of these plus other larger pens. Working on another 20 this fall

 

[Poultry Run Farm]

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Wow, those are great. They look like what I was trying to explain to hubby today. They are attached to a building? We have a 12'x24' building and want to do in door/out door type thing for them.

 

[RAREROO]

No they are not attached to a building, he has like a mirror image of those pens on the back side as well, so on the other side of that wall is another row of pens just like the ones that a visible in the pics. He has a genius design that way that allows him to cut the cost of a whole other back side for another row of hens, he uses the same streach of wall for the back of both sets of pens. But if you wanted to do an indoor/ outdoor type deal then that will work too, its just that with our south Ga winters, there is no need for him to have an enclosed indoor area, my pens dont have enclosed shelters either.

And the little cages were his temporary/quarantine pens like he said. And he has really huge pens aviary type pens for his turkeys and peafowl.

 

[Poultry Run Farm]

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You guys are lucky, need to move to GA

That set up would work great for summer and grow out pens. Course here in Maine they would need more shelter for the winter. Getting more and more ideas for this building. This is a temp building for them until their new one is finished.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep, thats exatly how they are.
each house is 8'X8' and has 4 pens in it, 2 on each side of it, then the next house is connected to that one on one side, and so on down the line. Just added 12 new pens, and it only took 9 sheets of pylwood for the 3 houses that way.
you could do the same exact thing, just partialy wall up the fronts. Like Clint said, we just dont have to do that here. Or you could wrap them in heavy duty plastic each winter.

 

[Poultry Run Farm]

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So no walk way inside the buildings? Go in from the outside? Plus we want to make a seperate building for iso for new birds or ones just back from a show.

Yep, that's what we do with the outside runs here in the winter now. wrap really well with heavy plastic and reinforce the tops.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

YEP,
our houses are just shelters in the center on the main run with pens off each side.
What you are looking at in the pics are the 2x4 framed gates to each pen. It could be modified to have a center walk way threw the houses very easily, you'd just loose the saving of that center run of plywood down the middle of the houses dividing the 2 sides, but would be a good idea especially for northern climates. you could actually build them as to where you could close the houses up at night and keep the birds inside them when it was the coldest too.

 

[RAREROO]

Yep thats my problem too, I wanted to build my new pens like yours with two pens on each side, but I am going to build mine similar to yours , they will be a long stretch and each pen will be 4x8 and is will be like a 4x4 sheltered section and a 4x4 unsheltered section with the front open like yours, but mine will only be 4 ft high so I can save a little money one by using shorter wire so I can make more pens, and I'm not bendin my big self down under a 4 ft fence so I will need to the the egg collecting, and feeding and watering from the hatches in the back of the shelter wall so that will prevent be from using the same wall for two pens. But when I get my bantam Wyandotte breeding cages set up, they will be more like yours but they will be double stacked raised cages, and the whole cage will be covered, but I will utilize on wall for two sets of cages.