Have you started your 2011 waiting list for chicks yet? I'd like to get on it.
d'anver lovers,discuss the breed and post some pics!
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I start taking them In Feb.
I use to try to keep up with them over the winter, but they list started getting too long and nearly impossible to keep up, so I just start taking orders now on Feb. 1st.
That way I can start getting to them all pretty quick as they start not long after that.
Will be glad to get you on there then. If you'd like, go ahead a PM me what you want, but just be sure to remind me of it come Feb. so I dont misplace it.
Thanks!
I use to try to keep up with them over the winter, but they list started getting too long and nearly impossible to keep up, so I just start taking orders now on Feb. 1st.
That way I can start getting to them all pretty quick as they start not long after that.
Will be glad to get you on there then. If you'd like, go ahead a PM me what you want, but just be sure to remind me of it come Feb. so I dont misplace it.
Thanks!
Aubrey, I was looking at the Henderson breeds chart and it makes a comment "chicks difficult to rear" on the D'Anvers section. Why do they say that? I can't see why they would be any harder to raise than any other chick, but you're the expert here.
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This is what I need to start doing I guess, I've been listing names as I get them for Speckled Sussex eggs and have at least 15 people on my list for them and now I'm thinking the hens are just old and burnt out and I'll probably have to replace them and it would take until summer for the new ones to be laying and that much longer for the people on my list to wait so I'll probably have to start waiting til spring to take orders next year. The hens are going on 3 years old for some of them and their age kinda stipped my mind as I usually dont keep hens over two years. I'm so ready for spring though so I can get them started over. I'm not liking this freezing wind thats visiting South Ga. today one bit.
This is what I need to start doing I guess, I've been listing names as I get them for Speckled Sussex eggs and have at least 15 people on my list for them and now I'm thinking the hens are just old and burnt out and I'll probably have to replace them and it would take until summer for the new ones to be laying and that much longer for the people on my list to wait so I'll probably have to start waiting til spring to take orders next year. The hens are going on 3 years old for some of them and their age kinda stipped my mind as I usually dont keep hens over two years. I'm so ready for spring though so I can get them started over. I'm not liking this freezing wind thats visiting South Ga. today one bit.
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I've seen that on a couple of charts, even one on here. Who ever list that mess has no idea what they are talking about.
To be honest, they are very tough little buggers and really do better for me that a lot of my other breeds. Usually if they hatch, they make it, where as some others I have like the various crested breeds are some what delicate for the first few weeks.
But no, d'anver chicks in no way are delicate as chicks, wish folks would get their facts straight before making such comments on a breed.
It's kinda like hatcheries saying phoenix are from Japan, their actually European in their origin, well there and here, nothing Japanese about them though.
From what I have done with them, they are one of the easiest to breed, hatch and raise in bantam fowls and do very well in all climates.
Clint,
yep, that's why I started doing it this way. Gives me time to be sure what I'll have and not get over booked and disappoint folks too.
I've seen that on a couple of charts, even one on here. Who ever list that mess has no idea what they are talking about.
To be honest, they are very tough little buggers and really do better for me that a lot of my other breeds. Usually if they hatch, they make it, where as some others I have like the various crested breeds are some what delicate for the first few weeks.
But no, d'anver chicks in no way are delicate as chicks, wish folks would get their facts straight before making such comments on a breed.
It's kinda like hatcheries saying phoenix are from Japan, their actually European in their origin, well there and here, nothing Japanese about them though.
From what I have done with them, they are one of the easiest to breed, hatch and raise in bantam fowls and do very well in all climates.
Clint,
yep, that's why I started doing it this way. Gives me time to be sure what I'll have and not get over booked and disappoint folks too.
That's what I figured, really. Didn't make any sense to me after reading through all your posts over the past year or so.
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He has pairs and extra cockerels in dun quail. I havent heard from him either, he did say it would be after the holidays before he could do anything. I think he may have went out of town.
I'll check with him again after this week is over as I am getting some more stuff from him too. If he has sold out of them, I'll be gald to get you some this spring. He's also a poultry judge, so he may be off doing that somewhere too.
Yep Cynthia,
No worries on raising them at all, they do just fine. My ONLY trouble I have had is early season hatches and cold weather, they dont like it cold as chicks, but other than that, they all do just fine here.
He has pairs and extra cockerels in dun quail. I havent heard from him either, he did say it would be after the holidays before he could do anything. I think he may have went out of town.
I'll check with him again after this week is over as I am getting some more stuff from him too. If he has sold out of them, I'll be gald to get you some this spring. He's also a poultry judge, so he may be off doing that somewhere too.
Yep Cynthia,
No worries on raising them at all, they do just fine. My ONLY trouble I have had is early season hatches and cold weather, they dont like it cold as chicks, but other than that, they all do just fine here.
ok I am just curious...does your mottled and cuckoo varieties have dark or light legs. Something was mentioned on the ameraucana forum about the mottled and barring genes being dermal melonizer (sp?) inhibitor....meaning the offspring will only have light legs.
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That's right,
They are the same, doesnt matter the breed, they will be light and mottled in color , that's just adraw back to the gene's in those, you'll never have dark skin, that's what's killing the silkie folks with cuckoos. Seen a lot of threads where they are tring to get the dark comb and black skin in their cuckoo birds, it's just not gonna happen.
They are the same, doesnt matter the breed, they will be light and mottled in color , that's just adraw back to the gene's in those, you'll never have dark skin, that's what's killing the silkie folks with cuckoos. Seen a lot of threads where they are tring to get the dark comb and black skin in their cuckoo birds, it's just not gonna happen.
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