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

[BantamBabesFarm]

Thank you Aubrey for telling me about your set up. And thank you Nanakat for the pictures and descriptions! Very helpful for me to start working on my own set ups.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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

haha, thats right, you can do that in oh 20 years I think. That's why I was so excited to have gotten that tiny one the other week, was like winning the lottery.

OH and look at me go, point click and get on with it now, thank God for GFM ad removal. I was just before leaving LOL

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Thank you Aubrey for telling me about your set up. And thank you Nanakat for the pictures and descriptions! Very helpful for me to start working on my own set ups.

NO PROBLEM
Should be some pics of them some where on this thread too

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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

haha, yep right up there with finishing the pyles,creles, goldnecks, white columbians, dom white based buffs, silver duckwings...etc etc

That would be great this fall though, would be a tremendous help. Then I can make reds, lemon millies, well actually a bunch of red and cream based ones. I'll take what ever you will spare. Just let me know when the time comes

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

What color would you call this

 

[lcw1995]

jj looks like a ginger red kind of to me
maybe a little dark i looked at aubreys and looks similar

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

jj looks like a ginger red kind of to me
maybe a little dark i looked at aubreys and looks similar

I was thinking the same thing. It is out of a bb red and this real reddish looking quail I got some place. Was going to try and make my own bb reds but decided it was to much trouble. Well any she went broody last december on one egg. One day I noticed it had pipped but she left the nest. He was peeping so I threw it in the bator. My wife named him Budrow the day it hatched and I have been feeding him ever since.

jj

 

[lcw1995]

speaking of them going broody, how are they with broodyness ?
they go broody alot? good mothers?
hatched 3 from aubrey but they arent anywhere close to going broody

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

speaking of them going broody, how are they with broodyness ?
they go broody alot? good mothers?
hatched 3 from aubrey but they arent anywhere close to going broody

This is my first year with them and all my hens are young, less than a year. When they first started laying, most of them layed about 6 eggs and then went to sittin and fussin but it didn't last too long. Now I have a couple that will lay a while then set a while. Art Cosner has a bunch, he doesn't use an incubator anymore, just lets them do theyre thing and he says they are real good mothers.

jj

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

What color would you call this

yep Ginger, a bit Light actually if any thing, but pretty darn close. Now the first year cross buff columbians look about like that too due to all the red in the colors to make them, and if the milles are ginger based. But they usually dont have as dark mahogany of a shoulder like the gingers do, so I'd say without knowing anything about the bird, ginger would be a safe bet