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

[CupOJoe42]

Three of 4 little Quail D'Anver chicks look like little chicklets mixed in with some chicken nuggets!
These are Gazpacho and Amelia Egghart's first chicks that I hatched!

 

[Bantam Username]

ya that's a nice roo ya got there
shapin' up nicley for ya

Thank you, he was slow to feather up and is very small, but at 22 weeks old now, I think he's a great shape.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

good looking chicks everybody.

Bantam,
that silver is a stud! He looks great. I'd be very proud of him if I were you.


JJ,

I was gonna suprise you today with red pyle pics and dun mottled, but I got the flu or something, was all I could do just to go out and feed up, I think I'm dying here..... But if I aint, I'll try to get some next weekend for you. Just keep in mind they are still projects, got some single combs in the mix still...

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

good looking chicks everybody.

Bantam,
that silver is a stud! He looks great. I'd be very proud of him if I were you.


JJ,

I was gonna suprise you today with red pyle pics and dun mottled, but I got the flu or something, was all I could do just to go out and feed up, I think I'm dying here..... But if I aint, I'll try to get some next weekend for you. Just keep in mind they are still projects, got some single combs in the mix still...

Hey, you take care of yourself, I still want some eggs.

It don't look like much but I started on some pens today. Took most of the day to dig the holes. It is pretty hard digging in the virginia shale.

 

[dtran0268]

Aubrey! What beak color (black or white) is the prefer color on the lavender cuckoo? Does it matter at all?

 

[speckledhen]

Out for only a few moments, the babies began panting. The mamas were so excited to be out, they just kept digging and the kids were sort of left in the dust. Finally, DH rescued them and they sat in the shade created by him, then we took them back, but they had some excitement, at least.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

will do JJ


Do,

honestly, they arent in any standard so it doesnt really matter til they set one. Mine are usually black with a white front tip, though I have a couple white. The barred lavender columbians are all white. With barring on them, it does a mess to all the skin, leg, beak, and wattle color. Wattles and combs will always be bright red, even in fibro breeds like silkies ( they'll never have a barred silkie without a bright red comb) the legs are always pearl ( black and white mottled) and the beak usually is similar to leg color, some more pale that others,

So with all these barred and cuckoo birds, they cant conform to strict breed guides set in a standard because it's just genetically impossible to make them like all the other colors. That pattern has it's own set of rules.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Cynthia that is a nice little flock of peeps.Them lavander ones can kind of grow on you.

jj

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks, JJ. I really, really am liking those Coch'anvers. So far, all five of the ones hatched are the lavs. I wonder if the ones in the bator and the one under my Phoenix hen will be lav, too.


More pictures. Here is the little oddball for you first, JJ. Does he still look odd to you? I'm not 100% sure it's a cockerel, as you can see by the very definite one below with the bright pink comb at just over two weeks of age.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Nope, it's lookin like it should. Maybe too early to call the gender, but I have noticed some you can tell really early. Which leaves you thinking the ones you can't are pullets, then two weeks later you realize they're not. So give it another two weeks. I have 15 to hatch on wensday, I am looking forward to it because I have some silver quail, blue quail, quail and some more millies.

Ohh! and my 2nd pen of quail started laying today. But then I got a porcelain pullet that hatched on 7/20 last year that hasn't even looked at the nest box, so I am waiting what was it 46 weeks for Penny.
jj