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

[schuloger]

I hear ya, I just spent about 200 on wire for a new pen and then bought some Ravap and need to buy some more Frontline..........stuff adds up over a while, not including feed.

 

[tazcat70]

Well, I am a new member to this thread. I had a broody and went to the feed store. I came home with 3 Quail d'Anver's. 2 boys and a girl. They are so adorable! I had planned on re-homing them, but I think I have fallen for em.

 

[schuloger]

Congrats on the babies and welcome to the d'anver forum.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep same here Tazcat, welcome

And yes, I know the feeling, my feed bill alone buying in bulf too is about $600 a month alone.
Then my pens average $100 per pen, so I'm looking at about $3000 to cough up for just the bantam ones I need...oh did I mention my roof was leaking had to put on a new one, two days after I paid for that my well went dry and they had to dig and replace the pupm on it, so those two alone was $6600 in about 10 days...Lord now it's Christmas....Come on tax refund!!!!

 

[schuloger]

Well, you can always look at it on the bright side of atleast you have all those things to replace

I have to keep telling my self how much of blessed man I am when things start to go wrong.

It usually comes in doses also.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep at least I shouldnt have to worry about them for a while, of course the well was only 3 years old and had already gone dry???

Yep It could be worse though, so I am thankful for what I have for sure. I have definately noticed it seems to come in doses. Washer and dryer need replacing now...haha in never ends

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Cynthia, when your D'Anver girlies start to lay I'd be interested in some hatching eggs...gosh they are pretty!!

~Aspen

 

[speckledhen]

Aspen, we'll talk when they start laying. They're so super sweet. Penny wants nothing more than to be held 24/7.


Taz, welcome to the D'Anver thread! You'll be hooked big-time! I was never a bantam person, in general. I had only one bantam, a lavender Cochin, who was purchased as a companion for a single large fowl hatchling. Shadow lives with the D'Anvers and is going on 4 years old now so you can see how long it took before I really consider getting into bantams. I figured that most of my birds are huge pets anyway, so why not get a few smaller pets to play with so I could have twice as many for the same feed bill.

I am not a huge fan of feathered legs, but I did get some Mille Fleur D'Uccles. Didn't care for the hard leg feathers at all on those so I sold the trio. The D'Anvers seemed a perfect fit for me with the no-frostbite rose comb and clean legs and chunky little bodies. The porcelain color is to die for, too! Since that is just mille fleur with the lav gene added, it meant I could have two colors in the same coop and interbreed with no trouble. PERFECT!

Aubrey, we recently had to replace our well pump, tank and wiring. Yup, big bill, for sure, but not as bad as I thought it would be. My well is 400 ft deep. The bladder was about to burst and send oil into the well so we got to it just in time-if that had happened, we'd have had to drill a new one. That would have HURT! Since we've moved here, new water heater, new washer and dryer, new well pump. Need to replace the porch roof (separate system from the house roof, which is older but fine) and a couple of other things, but they work so we don't replace till needed.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep, seems when one starts to go they all follow dont it Cynthia

 

[juliechick]

I have one d'Anver egg pipped in the 'bator!