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

[speckledhen]

That Delilah can handle just about any chicken, no matter the size, I'd think. Rusty would be road pizza if he took her on. DeDe, as she is sometimes known, is the daughter of my big old blue Orp, Suede and my dear departed Velvet. She's a big girl with an attitude to match. The "South American Orpington" is an inside joke, started by an inquiry by a neighbor of Cetawin's, LOL.

 

[LauraLee]

Thanks Aubrey, me too. And Cyn that is the most gorgeous porcelain!! Angus is just beautiful, he just glows in the sun!!
Now if I can just stand the wait for my babies.
Have a great day all!!

 

[dtran0268]

Aubrey! What would I get if I breed my Silver Roo or Lavender Cuckoo to a Black Mottled hen? Or a Lavender Cuckoo Roo to a Silver Hen?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

a bunch of split stuff.

If you use the cuckoo roo, with those you'll get black cuckoos. They will be split to lavender for sure from him and split mottled if you did it to the mottled hen.
back breed them, you'll get lavender mottled, mottled, barred mottled, barred lavender mottled, black, cuckoo

If you used him to the silver hen you'd get black cuckoo split to lavender carrying the silver gene. Back breed those to each other and you would get a mass combo of black, barred, lavender, lavender barred, silver, lavender silver, lavender barred silver, barred silver

havent tried the silver to mottled , but should be all black first time, split to mottled, with silver wing bows. Back breeding will make all sorts of stuff,mainly black, mottled, and silver . Have a shot at silver ducking , columbian, silver millies, and mottled versions of all

 

[LauraLee]

Aubrey no wonder your head is so big, a normal size head couldn't hold all the information. Glad we got a big brain to pick.

 

[speckledhen]

This is why I don't have to remember all that stuff-we just go pull it out of Aubrey's head when we need it, LOL.

 

[LauraLee]

I completely agree.

 

[dtran0268]

Wow! Thanks Aubrey, I had to read it a zillion times and still could not remember just some of it. Hope BYC will not loose any of this post so I can go back and read it again and again........

 

[LauraLee]

Quote:
dtran, after he split to the lavender, I split to the kitchen for another coke.

confused the heck outta me!!!

I say just throw them in there and whatever you get, well that's what you get. That's my version of what he said. LMBBO

Geesh, Aubrey, how many heads you got????

 

[juliechick]

Hello, D'anvers lovers. My 8 year old son fell in love with a pair of Self Blue D'anvers at the Crossroads National a couple days ago. I really didn't need another breed, but who can resist a kid who is holding a little hen and doesn't want to put it down? The chickens rode the 12 hours home with us yesterday. I just thought I would introduce myself and Ethan. He wants to learn all he can about D'Anvers now so he can use the hen as his showmanship bird.