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

[Backwoods Bntms]

Aubrey can give better advice because the only ones I have seen are the ones I have hatched. But the split millies are not near as dark as the not split ones .It could be that because my hen is already split they look like that. It wouldn't hurt when yours hatch to keep track of the lighter colored ones if there any, it is possible they could be your splits. It is just a guess on my part based on what I see here, but maybe with a better caliber of chicken it won't be so apparent.

jj

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

na, the dark or light has nothing to do with being split or not. JJ all your milles for that matter are way lighter than my average ones. What I call light ones are like the ones you just posted out of your good milles, my normal ones look almost chocolate as chicks.

They just come in that dark mahogany, and the lighter orangish phase. So the darks are usually the mahagony based ones, the lights the orange is all. The lavender has no visual effect as a split.... it may work out to be some of them, but it would just be luck.

Those second ones you posted JJ, I'm interested to see how they feather up. You can tell it's the mille pattern, but Lord they are pale... Almost porcelain pale, but with no lavender looks like...keep some progress pics going on them...bet they are going to end up looking nice.
They look like they will feather up almost as a golden mille to me... wonder if yours had some silver gene in the mix somewhere back? That's what they look like, a mahogany mille x a silver mille?? Either way, they look to be a interesting different mille color

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

na, the dark or light has nothing to do with being split or not. JJ all your milles for that matter are way lighter than my average ones. What I call light ones are like the ones you just posted out of your good milles, my normal ones look almost chocolate as chicks.

They just come in that dark mahogany, and the lighter orangish phase. So the darks are usually the mahagony based ones, the lights the orange is all. The lavender has no visual effect as a split.... it may work out to be some of them, but it would just be luck.

Those second ones you posted JJ, I'm interested to see how they feather up. You can tell it's the mille pattern, but Lord they are pale... Almost porcelain pale, but with no lavender looks like...keep some progress pics going on them...bet they are going to end up looking nice.
They look like they will feather up almost as a golden mille to me... wonder if yours had some silver gene in the mix somewhere back? That's what they look like, a mahogany mille x a silver mille?? Either way, they look to be a interesting different mille color

I knew they were light. I was going to save the best ones and put with my dark rooster next year. I was kinda of experimenting because at the shows I have been to I asked the judges about the colors of different millies that I see there and they all are looking for something inbetween the dark ones and the light ones you generally see. The standard calls for "light orange vermillion" what ever that is, but I think they are looking for something brighter looking than the darkish buff of the birds I see at shows. But anyway I am learning.
Later I will post some pics of some older birds out of the same pairing. i am not sure what they are going to turn out looking like but I think they are a little different.

jj

 

[speckledhen]

I think Penny may be going broody. Oh, Lord. At least, she could hatch her very own babies.

 

[lcw1995]

congrats cyn on penny
i just had my danverX hatch her own babies last nite
dads a d'anver or pyncheon

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep I'd keep them for sure and maybe see what they color out like, and if it breeds true if it's something odd..haha but then yall know me, if it's a newish color, I love it

 

[lcw1995]

yep I'd keep them for sure and maybe see what they color out like, and if it breeds true if it's something odd..haha but then yall know me, if it's a newish color, I love it

was that directed to me lol
?

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

I got three eggs out of the silver quail pen today, usually it just one.

Pics of the light millies, they are three different birds but they all have looked alike when hatched, and came from the same pair.
one week


two weeks


three four weeks

 

[speckledhen]

Aubrey, where do you let your broodies set, when you do let them? Penny is broody. She is in a regular nest, but it's way up high. I have a brooder cage in the storage area in that coop, but I hate always removing them from the main coop. Tom won't let me leave them in the coop with other adults, but if you do, I'll have to use that for leverage to see if I can do that.

Would have to see if I could get her set up closer to the floor, though.

This is the brooder/broody cage in the bantam coop front storage area, but as you can see, it's off the floor. There is a light fixture over it so it can have a heat lamp, if need be. It was on the floor of a different coop, but we dissassembled it and reassembled it in place here, so that's why the door isn't fitting square. We've since fixed that a bit.




ETA: Oh, good grief, I went out there to check and Aimee was on a nest after 6:30 p.m. with her head under her wing sleeping. She isn't acting broody, no egg laid. I hope she isn't going broody, too. I put her on the roost and she was going to try to fly back to the nests in low light so to avoid her hurting herself, I put her back on the nest next to Penny, where she tucked two fake eggs under her and scooted her little tush all around. Maybe she is just wondering what's wrong with sister Penny, who is very definitely broody, screaming and fluffing out like a psycho miniature beach ball, or maybe she's just working on a very late day egg. I'll have to go back and check on her later.

 

[tazcat70]

Cyn, I am not Aubrey, but I have let my hens be broody in the main coop. I mark the eggs that she is sitting on, and take out any new ones laid. I don't have any trouble. I do put her in a cage after the chicks hatch so that they learn they need to stay close to mom. I leave them in there for about a week or three. I had chicks that would loose sight of momma and then end up lost.