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

[BantamBabesFarm]

Hey everyone! My internet has been out for a couple weeks. Blah. I missed so much here. Cute pics... Sorry about the poor sick ones and grats to anyone with new babies! I have some eggs locking down tomorrow morning (This morning... later) and that will be exciting! Here are my 2 week olds, they are doing great. D'anver sure are fiesty

I love them though!

Millie - Any male / female guesses?


Quail - I have 1 that looks like this first pic. And 3 that look like the second quail pic. I assume from a description I got that the top picture is Male and the bottom Female?




My blue quail and millie together.



The group Guesses for male / female on the blue?

 

[mccaff mama hen]

I had a blind hen that I kept in the layer house with her friends for three years.  Angel was never picked on by the other hens and knew her way around the roost where her food and water feeders were located. She loved being placed on the grass for free range.   Angel also successfully adopted a chick to care fo in her last year.  Loved thatbeautiful white hen that laid robin's egg blue eggs.

Awww... That is precious!!

 

[speckledhen]

Not sure about Angus today. DH is working on him every hour, but he still has so much in that crop and his poop has become more watery.

The Little Man is now 9 weeks old. He's definitely Carly's son, I know that. He has only one actual spot at this point and now, the Mille hens are starting to pester him more. I really wish someone would claim him. I hate to think I have to choose a pullet to go with him since I'm not sure I want to let either Lucy or Mina go at all. Even if Angus doesn't make it, I don't think I want to keep him. Looks like his beard is trying to grow back in. He stands on top of Molly every day when she's laying her egg-that hen has the patience of a saint!

Sorry the pics are a tad grainy-I had to take them from outside the pen and Aubrey still was stalking me, trying to kill the camera monster, so I had to snap them fast, LOL.






ETA: We couldn't get the crop moving on Angus, so made a small slit and used forceps to pull some of the grass and grains out, but could not get it all out and didn't want to make a larger cut on such a small bird. He is sutured up, but I honestly feel like we will lose him. I think something was going on before this even happened since I know his color had been off for a week before, and when systems are shutting down anyway, the crop usually ceases to function. Have seen it in hens with ovarian cancer and internal laying, hens in hard molt who have some other contributing factor, just never with a rooster.

 

[NanaKat]

Awww...lifting a little prayer for little Angus. Hope the surgery helped.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

same here Cynthia
sorry to hear all that.

Bantam babes

still a bit early to tell, but as a guess I'd say male on the milles, and most likely male on the first quail female on the last, no idea yet on the blue. Judging off the oragne bits on the shoulder in the 1st quail is why I'm saying male on it. The pullets will stay darker over all and have a more laced back, where the male will start getting in the organe ish color over the bulk of the body. Look nice and healthy, taking good care of them looks like

 

[speckledhen]

Angus is still alive this morning and thirsty. I let him have a few sips of water and a taste of yogurt with oil, but I want him to pace it until we see things are moving for him. His crop seems smaller this morning so we'll see. His color isn't good. He didn't crow, either, but he's probably very sore and tired. Sure hope he can dodge this bullet-he is named after Angus MacGyver, after all.



ETA: at just after noon, he is doing much better, energetic, pacing, crowing (though a bit hoarse) and wanting his water and yogurt-oil-mashed yolk mixture. I'm making him pace himself, giving him some water and the yogurt mixture every 45 minutes or so. He has pooped some semi-solid stuff once so something is still getting through. I'm hopeful he may just get through this crop thing, though why his color was off before that, we still have no idea.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

that's great

 

[speckledhen]

The things we do for our chickens, sheesh. I just happen to really like this little guy quite a lot, though I'd do it for any of them. Can't just let one starve to death with a plugged up crop if it can be fixed, though usually, by the time you realize anything is really wrong, they are so depleted, it's too late to save them. And sometimes, I've found that the crop is impacted because it quit working in the first place, not the other way around. I'm hoping that is not what happened here because that would mean it most likely won't function right again.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Wishing Angus a speedy recovery!

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks, JJ. When I turned off the lamp next to the rabbit cage, he went to the corner and laid down like the perfect houseguest. If he's doing fine tomorrow, may add some chick starter to his yogurt. He's getting tired of that mixture he's been eating all day, LOL.