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

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I think I ca handle that, working on them in blue and dun too, and....and...and, LOL

 

[chicken boy sam]

Any new pics of the mottled? Sorry, I'm just so excited about hatching that egg!!!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

no , no new ones on those, have a few blue mottled I am waiting to feather up on, need to get some of this years black mottled hatch up though dont I.

 

[ScratchesWithChickens]

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This weekend one of the roosters "attacked" my 6 year old son for picking up our porcelain d'uccle hen. He was a bit startled but how threatened can you really feel when you are attacked by a stuffed toy? lol When the roo was picked up, he stood victoriously in hand and crowed on and on. Silly thing, we call him the Shuffle Monster sometimes. I love it when they stalk me, it's pretty cute. They're just sooooo tiny! I'm completely hooked.

-Alex

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

LOL Shuffle monster! That about fits them Alex, they love to drop a wing and do a little shuffle dance dont they!

And stuffed toy works for them too, if they were 10 pounds I'd be worried though, they think they are the stuff!

 

[RAREROO]

Huge Coolness Overload ya got goin on there Aubrey, love the new pics and colors, I'll have to get back over there sometime and see them all in person.

 

[speckledhen]

Aubrey, usually, an aggressive rooster is removed from my place, one way or another, but as was stated by someone on BYC once, it's probably like being attacked by a small throw pillow to get flogged by these tiny fellows. And some folks keep telling me that the D'Anvers roosters are notoriously aggressive. What percentage would you say are a PITA like that, if you can corral it to a percentage at all?

I am looking forward to having some little toy chickens in the spring. I have a coop that contains my old standard ladies and my only banty, a lavender Cochin hen, only six birds. It can hold about 13 birds in that coop so I have plenty of room to add the bantams to that group, including a tiny toy rooster, LOL. Wonder what the old big girls will think about a young stud no taller than their hock joints?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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thanks Clint, come on by would love to see you again

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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Cynthia

That would be pretty funny, these little 20 some odd ounce fellows with some 5+ pound girls, LOL

On these, as for the aggressiveness, it's more territorial really than outright meanness. About 30-40% of my roos are that way, usually the 2 year or younger ones, after 2 they seem to chill out, may be a testosterone over load in them.

Like Scratcheswith chickens said earlier, It seems to be more of a protective nature towards their hens from my experiences with them. Anytime, I catch a hen in a pen, to examine, worm or whatever, roos 12 stalls down will light up, not to mention the ones in the stall with you, LOL

But honestly, with them it's more of an annoyance that anything, kind of humorous to watch really.
I have also noticed certain colors seem more prone to it that others. All my solid colors, black, white, lavender, buff etc have a streak to them.
As do the dark colored quails., and bb reds.
The mottled (porcelains, millies, mottled), all seem to be puppy dogs as do all the barred patterned ones and silver quail . Ginger reds, dun, and the rest seem to be about 50 50.
One thing with them though, I keep multiple males in all the pens, some like the gingers and duns have up to 4-5 in each stall, and they dont fight, very odd.
Now you have to put them all in together obviously, raised together is best. Or put in adolescent males, mature males will get attacked by the dominate ones if you add them. BUT, I have done that too during all these color breeding male moves, after about and hour of raised hackles, and bowed heads, they stop and are buddy watch dogs from then on.

Now the little hens, there's not a gentler, friendly er bird on the planet I believe, I have , oh 300 or so, and most all will walk right up to you, eat out of your hand, even fly up and get on your shoulder in a lot of cases. I've never done a thing to get them to do this, Have too many to baby them as pets, they just do it on their own

 

[shelleyb1969]

Just go on, BBB...keep feeding my hunger.

From what you describe about the porcelains, they would be the P-E-R-F-E-C-T starter bird for my son's first year in 4H. Now I simply need to get some by next year.