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

[speckledhen]

Sneezing isn't a big deal if it's the only symptom. I've never seen snot on any chicken here. If I did, it would get the axe immediately. We've dealt with pneumonia and fungal infections, but never anything contagious, thank goodness. Isn't worth the risk to me to attempt to treat something if I'm not sure what it is. Aubrey is right, MG/MS can spread like wildfire and you can't get rid of it.


Rusty ticked me off and I put him up for sale again. Bad Rusty, very bad. That one just isn't very bright. He's alert, a great breeder and protector, but dang, he's just doesn't learn.

Good thing he's so darn handsome.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

They have been in a building in cages for the two weeks since I got them two weeks ago with out any symptoms till today. The past two nights have been down in the high twenty's. The first it has been cold here. Seems weird that they would have waited this long to show any symptoms wern't just a cold or whatever. But If they aren't better in a week they will be delt with. Thanks for the help.

I saw Rusty was for sale, too bad I live so far away.

jj

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

poor rusty.... as bad as yall talk about the poor feller, you gonna have to go off forum to sell him HAHA

And yep, the snot thing was what had me worried most. The sneezing alone is no big deal.
Watch that close, and for swelling.

Whatever it is, if they have been there 2 weeks with no signs til now, chances are they at least didnt bring it home. If it were MG or something like that, I think it's like 3 days or less and you will see symptoms. So fingers crossed, it's just a fall weather thing with them..hope so.

But I'm like Cynthia, I have so many birds here that attempting to keep 1 sick one going while risking hundreds of others, especially some of the super rare stuff, well I just dont do it. But give 'em at least a week as long as they are fully shut off from the others. Make dang sure you take care of them dead last. Dont go from their pen to the others ever, or you will take it right to them, but I'm sure you are aware of all that.

 

[speckledhen]

You know, Rusty doesn't act like that with DH. He just is a PITA with me right now. I only sell with full disclosure of his "Little Big Man Syndrome". I don't think there's a cure for it with this little heathen, LOL.


A vet told a friend of mine that once a bird battles pneumonia or a fungal infection, that it is prone to relapses with big weather changes from then on out. It's like the lungs are damaged/scarred or something along those lines. I've seen it with my Delaware rooster, who had a serious fungal infection over the summer and almost died twice, turned purple and couldn't breathe. Thank goodness for Oxine and a cool mist vaporizer, but with weather all over the place right now, he sometimes sounds like an asthmatic with an attack coming on. No discharges, just heavy breathing that isn't exactly right.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Poor Rusty. I have noticed a trend with my roosters, the ones that are the tamest and the friendliest as you raise them the more apt they are to be confrontational when they get bigger. The wilder ones keep they're distance. Except for Skipper an OEGB who really likes people. Unless I am wearing my maroon coat then he will start flogging my arm as soon as it goes in the pen.

I always take care of the new chickens last when I get home from work then come in and take a shower.

jj

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Yep,
I have a ginger group of roosters. Every time some one walks by them, they'll fly up on the door of the pen. Everyone says , oh look how cute, and trys to stick their fingers in the pen to rub them. I tell them, you might want to not do that, he's wanting to kill you, not be petted HAHA. Then they look at how postured up they are, batting their wings and all and realize they bout lost a finger to a 1 pound toe rag

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

It Seems Like all my d'Anver roosters after theyy hit about six monts old they get a little fiesty. I have a few pullets that will stub up and peck your hands too.

jj

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yea, most of the hens are seet hearts, but yes at about 6 months, the testosterone starts to kick in and the boys can got cuckoo on you

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Silver quail looks alot better this morning after one day of meds. No sneezing and just acts like a chicken.

jj

 

[speckledhen]

The roosters are an interesting group. Aubrey told me in full detail about their personalities so I was prepared, but it's so funny to watch. I considered it a breed trait of the D'Anvers from the get-go.

Rufus, who positively dances for DH to pick him up to cuddle him will bite my finger and flog my shoe one moment, then he'll let me pick him up the next. Aubrey (the rooster, not BBB, LOL) will not go out of his way to mess with me at all, only if I try to reach for him will he start to act tough. Angus will eat out of my hand, albeit cautiously, and though he avoids being caught, he doesn't usually nip and never flogs. Rusty is always a little snot. He's sneaky and takes any opportunity to get his licks in on me. I bent over to pet my oldest Buff Orp hen who lives with them and was tapping my leg for attention. He hit me in the shoulder immediately because I was distracted. He isn't that way with DH, who has been making it his project to tame the beast.

He's still not really that much of a problem; it's just that I do have four males to three females and really don't need him. Add that to the minor daily irritation of his antics, and I thought maybe someone might like to have an opportunity to have a mille fleur D'Anver of prime breeding age. He's really good at that!

I don't really try to handle them constantly, but I do like to be able to catch one if I need to for maintenance, though, at roost time, it's easy. None of them are a problem since, at their slight weight, it's like a puff of air hitting your leg when they get feisty, if you feel it at all, LOL. The hens are completely opposite to the males. Carly, the tiny one, was a bit skittish as a youngster, used to jump at your hand if you reached for her, almost like a cockerel, and she still isn't one to ask for attention like the other two, but she is much calmer now and likes attention almost as much as Penny and Aimee do. They are so much fun, I can't even tell you. I don't regret my choice of bantam breed in the least.

jj, glad the Silver quail seems better today.