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

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

great pics Arianna, and Lord no, no ones minds showing them off. prowd to see them.

Looks to me like you have most all of them labled right. The redder one you mentioned with the unsure of chick looks right, if so, he's a buff columbian.

Only one I see chick to adult wise that cant be right is the blue quail pullet. The chipmunk faced chick with the blue back was either a blue red or a blue buff columbian (they are identical as chicks)

but all the blue quail should have looked exactly like the ones you had piced with the roosters.

Dont see a blue red or columbian in the mix as adults though?

breed that dun mottled split hen to either one of you mottled males or that nice split male. Will get 50% each black mottled and dun mottled.

From there breed the dun mottled together and you'll get some beautiful khaki mottled.

That's the same way I had to do mine.

The man who originated the dun in d'anver was kind enough to send me a bunch of the dun hens he had that were split to mottled last fall. Bred them to a good mottled male this year and got right at 50% of each color and all were mottled but just a few, that one you have is one of the just a few that didnt come out mottled.

 

[arianna]

Hi Aubrey thank you for the breeding advice.

On the blue quail pullet, I know you told me when I posted pics with her before as a baby that she was not a blue quail, but the adult picture are with her. I handle this little girl a lot and she has grown under my eyes. Maybe she will get some other colors later on.
But you are right in the pictures the one with the "make up" around her eyes was the one I initialy tought was a BB Red (the red one on the very top)

This is the blue pullet as a baby chick, she had some brown on her head

here she was next to the blue cockerel.

In the pictures I have all my d'Anvers except that in my dun quail pullets I have two and my quail pullets I have two. Everyone else is in the pictures.
All the pullets have a such a sweet temper. From what I'm reading on d'Anvers I know that the roosters can be quite feisty, I'm just hopping that I'm more lucky and mine will be gentle around my three year old and my self. I will like to keep as many of those roosters as I can.

 

[arianna]

Aubrey what color combinations do you think I should do with my white pullet from the splash. Who should I pair her with ?
Thank you.

 

[arianna]

Ok, you can tell that I'm bored and can't sleep because it's 1:30AM and I'm still here. I found this video on YouTube with some very pretty d'Anvers, but what I think it's funny is the sound made in the backround by some goats.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

that's got to be her then. Just the brown head is whats messing with me. I really didnt think I set any blue reds for you on that batch, so she must have just been an odd colored chick cause the adult is definately a blue quail.

with the white hen, I'd put her to the splash rooster. Should get mainly splash that way as she should just be an unmarked splash hen I'm thinking.
If she did turn out genetically white, which does happen on splash breeding from time to time, she will be recessive white, so anything can be crossed to her and will give you black chicks split to white.

 

[speckledhen]

Super nice pics! I love when we keep this thread going. Mine are now 22 weeks old. Still waiting on eggs. They play around in the nests, are fascinated with my Silver Phoenix pullet when she's laying, get in the nest with her, poor thing. She screams her head off and flares up and they pay her no mind, LOL.

 

[bluebird]

arianna! Love your pictures!

Jeeze those babies are adorable! Like puppies!

Nice birds...but I do love the dun quail color the best.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Just testing my signature.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

looks great to me!

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Thanks, now I might have to retire skipper as my avatar.