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

[medchic2005]

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I never really thought of doing that...hhhmmmm....that sounds like fun!! Can't wait for baby chicks this spring

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

oh yeah, it's a blast.
In your case with the blues, what you will get this time around will be all blue birds, keep up with who was bred to silver and who to quail, now you need to back breed those to each other Blue brother to blue sister), or to another one of the matching colors they came from (back to silver or quail)and the following year, they will come out blue silver quail, or blue quail, basically takes two years to blue a color.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

JUST A CRELE HATCH UPDATE,
3 out so far today, couple more piped, one looks cuckoo, one ???(thinking maybe silver duckwing barred), and one still a little wet but sure looks pure crele!!!

 

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[speckledhen]

Well, I don't have the D'Anvers yet, but this is where their new little coop is going. Yep, DH decided to move the strawberry patch to the main garden since they never did well here, so I have claimed it for a bantam coop.

Of course, no idea when it will be started or finished. Have to scavenge for materials for awhile. This is a 12' x 15' plot and probably the most level piece on our entire 5.37 acres, LOL. Those 4x4's are just sunk into the ground, not in concrete so we can remove them and use them in construction of the coop.

 

[chicken boy sam]

Nice!!!!


Off-topic.... but how did you get your strawberries??? Did you start them from root or did you buy them as plants???? I tried the roosts and they never took.

 

[speckledhen]

We planted them from packages we got at Walmart, both June-bearing and Ever-bearing types. They didn't take off, even after years of being in the same location, so my porcelain D'Anvers get the benefit of my failure, LOL.

 

[StevenW.]

NOT FAIR!!!
I need to wait a while till I can get anymore breeds.

1) Need to downsize the chicken flock (cause most of them are egg eaters and are old)
2) I'm getting call duck eggs from duckluck in the spring and I would like to focus on them and show them.


P.S. We raise strawberrys and we have at least a half acre of them and we are lucky that we have a big freezer to store them

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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best get him to work Cyn.

Only had 1 porcelain egg so far and it did hatch today, fat butted little round bugger.

I see what you were talking about now, that's one heck of a view yall have there, beautiful!, think the babies will be in bantam heaven there.

 

[speckledhen]

Hey, Aubrey, do the males make themselves known really early like the D'Uccles? Can D'Anvers be feather sexed? Someone on another thread said that D'Uccles cannot be feather sexed so I was thinking that probably D'Anvers can't, either. If they get those red combs early, probably no need anyway!