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

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Would anyone be willing to show or tell about their chicken areas? Runs and coops etc? How do you keep tiny birds? Ive heard of people keeping them off the ground in cages rather then on the ground. Is there any benifit to that?

cleaner birds in cages usually is all. Most that do that are showers and keep them like that to keep them out of the dirt and in tip top perfect show condition. Life wise, there's not much benefit either way, I have them in both, prefer the ground actually.
Mine mostly have 2 inch chicken wire, they arent that tiny, so any material will work after they are grown. Now young they can about get threw anything.

my pens are 4 foot wide, 12 foot deep, and 6 foot tall full covered with roost in the back.
Thick hay kept on the ground so it's easier to get the mess out and keeps them clean.

pretty much that's it. nothing super special

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

you just getting started JJ!!
Opened bag two for the week today and just finished up a new brooder for this weeks hatch. I never did get around to taking pics of those new color this weekend...God I run out of day before I know it. Think I wrapped 5-600 eggs Sunday alone. That takes a while. Think I spent 6 hours on ebay and boxing Sunday...haha then people get mad when I charge $14 for shipping on there..haha you come do it then!!

Just bought 1800 square feet of bubble wrap too, But it's worth it in the long run, couldnt do all this without it... you getting there JJ!!!

Little iffy on the buff columbian color. The one is a mille for sure. My buffs are usually redder. Those actually look a lot like my silver duckwing phoenix?? THAT WOULD BE COOL! I lost that one I got, figured I would it was tiny tiny.
If they start feathering up buff then that's what they are. Been a year since I hatched any, first ones due this weekend. Had one Saturday but it ended up being a lavender one. On your first ones now, they will look a lot like bb reds on the hens, you have to keep back breeding them to clean the backs up. They'll have a lot of black stippling on them to start, but each yaer they clean up a bit more. It happens the first cross, but takes 2-3 more years to get them perfect, mine still aint 100% clean but this years chicks should be.

Is it possible that my millies have ginger and not mahogany? And if so what could I cross them with that would tell?

jj

 

[lcw1995]

aubrey that little project pen chick got some feathers today..solid black right now
will continue to update

 

[schuloger]

Aubry I thought I would share this picture to see if you can tell what I am working on. As you can see on one of them their feathers on the sides are a bit dark

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Is it possible that my millies have ginger and not mahogany? And if so what could I cross them with that would tell?

jj

most likely they do, not sure right off what to cross them with to tell 100%

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

aubrey that little project pen chick got some feathers today..solid black right now
will continue to update

if it's a pullet, it will be solid black with just a little red lacing in the hackle and breast. Males will look like a bb red without the red wing triangle patch

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Keith, if I know you, that's a buff project. Look to have some mille in them right now in the wings. That it??
Need to get my rebuild going on them too, just got so many right now to make room for .

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Just saw on the chicken calculator that if I cross my F1's out of the silver quail x recessive white, I only have to hatch 1028 chicks to get silver duckwing.

jj

 

[schuloger]

It is the buffs, I have some pure ones I will hold back for you also for later on this fall. Remind me later on and let me know how many you want and I can set them aside for ya.

You need to get working on yours.......top on your list to do right

 

[NanaKat]

Would anyone be willing to show or tell about their chicken areas? Runs and coops etc? How do you keep tiny birds? Ive heard of people keeping them off the ground in cages rather then on the ground. Is there any benifit to that?

Here is a little on my set up.
The large hen house is 11 x 12 and has an outside run of 6 x 50. There is a 10 hole nest box for 35 large fowl hens . There is a floor pen in there that is 3.5 x 6 for broodie girls and their chicks or the chicks when they are separated from their hen. It has it's own run.

The teen/grow-out pen is 14 x 24 feet with a stand alone wooden coop. Inside this area is a 6 x 8 corner pen with an enclosed area for a coop/roost. This smaller pen is used only when the weather is warmer and when I'm separating out birds for breeding. Otherwise it it left open to the teen pen.

The brooder room is 11 x 12 and has a concrete floor.
Tiny babies go in plastic tubs on wood shavings with 1 inch screen tops under lights. Then at 4 weeks they go into a larger cage with shavings and a low wattage bulb. The cage on top on the right is 1/2 ihch wire on a ripple tin


This is a 2 x 6 water trough with a screen top...works as a chick brooder pen Have used this for 1 day up to 4 week olds. Have also put a broodie hen in there with a nest of eggs when the hen was broodie in the winter.



This is an inside floor pen 4.5 x 7.5 in the brooder room. It is equipped with a dust box and is wood shavings on concrete. Birds up to 12 weeks stay in here. They are then moved to an outside teen pen..made of chain link fencing with a small wooden coop. These are large fowl but the bantams get the same kind of pen set up.


Select breeding age bantam trios have 36 x 46 x 24 inch cages made of 1 inch square sides and tops and the floor is 1/2 x 1 inch mesh with a pull out floor tray like the one on the bottom shelf. The upper shelf has a 30 by 36 x 24 for a pair. Otherwise, they all go in an outside pen with a community coop.


All flocks are on a free-range schedule or I provide cut greens from the garden.