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

[dtran0268]

Thanks JJ

Lord knows it's been trying...

Do,
if they look like JJ's posted pics, they are most likely the same thing, columbians off the silver quail pen. I'm betting that's what those arrow head chicks were.

If you breed them together, you should get mostly columbians and more refined ones at that with less and less black each year. That's how my buffs have been going. If you breed them to a silver quail you'll most likely get about half and half. That's what the parents to these were.
silver quail male and an F1 columbian off silver quail. Looks like you 2 got all the luck.

I didnt hatch and keep a single one this year off them..LOL just my luck... oh well, I know who has them at least

Thanks Aubrey! I'll breed them to the white hen and the brown hen picture below to see what will come out.

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

I think I am going to try breeding my two hens and brown red hen with one of my columbian males. And the other one I will put with silver quail, Blue silver quail and bb red. I like the Idea of silver birchen and will work towards silver duckwing. Man it just snow balls don't it.

jj

 

[Cetawin]

Well I thought I would update on my little white oddity...still no idea where a silver gene is. He declared himself by 2 weeks old. Here he is at 17 days old....he has a good case of KLF too

 

[dtran0268]

Here is the picture of the F1 Columbian pair. It's kind of blurry

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

LH- neat chicken

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

Do,
Those are nice. One of mine doesn't have a black feather on her but she came out of a silver quail egg.

jj

 

[dtran0268]

Do,
Those are nice. One of mine doesn't have a black feather on her but she came out of a silver quail egg.

jj

Thanks JJ. Aubrey shipped me these as silver quail too.

 

[Cetawin]

LH- neat chicken

He is a neat little boy...like his daddy, he runs over, bites your hand and then hops up on it. LOL Now what color is he? hahahaha My broody silkie hatched 2 mille split to lavender and a solid black. So every hatch I have here from Rufus has an oddity in it.

 

[KristenG]

Do, those Columbians are nice, especially considering they are the first gen out of Silver Quail - breeding them to that brown hen you showed (a buff columbian) is going to keep them more true to the Columbian pattern and should help some with the black in the back but the male babies will be split for gold and will likely have a lot of "rust" in them. How are the Silver Quail babies you hatched doing?

Cetawin, I am curious as to how many birds you have in your flock and what colors they are? What or who do you believe this chick's mother to be? Father? He is clearly at least half d'Anver...but he doesn't look like a purebred. His feet are pink and it almost looks like they are feathered in that photo.

jj- it certainly can snowball! Way back in the day when I actually had pen space and lived out in the country I started a project to breed Crele and BBR d'Anvers. I had a huge spinoff of varieties from these attempted matings and learned a LOT about color genetics in a little amount of time. It was so tempting to start separate lines of Brown Red, Cuckoo, Blue Cuckoo and Barred Blue Quail. I did for a while - in fact I still have a few Cuckoos running around that originally descended from that undertaking. What I learned the most is that Quail and BBR don't play well together. It takes a LOT of cleaning up frosting and shafting and since I took the color from OEG I was fighting type and pink legs as well. I couldn't finish the project when I graduated from college and had to find a place of my own to live, so everything I had in 2006 was pretty much lost (which wasn't much - the ones that had color looked liked muffed OE and the ones that looked like d'Anvers had poor color) just kind of got lost. I kept a few Cuckoo because they actually had good type. Right now I am having a snowball effect again...mostly because of chance. I am not actively seeking new varieties....they just seem to accumulate and I can't bring myself to get rid of them, lol. For example, I just had a BBR pullet pop up out of my Quail line that looks like a d'Anver and actually doesn't have horrible color. I am shocked at the incident....I haven't had a BBR for years. But I worked so hard on them when I did...I almost don't want to give her up. sigh.....

 

[Cetawin]

KristenR...the daddy is a Mille d'Anver roo straight from Aubrey's eggs (he formerly lived with Speckledhen but I stole his affection on a visit and had to go back and get him...she was mean to him you see and he was forced to flog her in defense *snicker*)...the girls in his pen are all d"uccles which is where the skin and leg feathers come from (recall I am creating the hairy legged horde to infilitrate JJ's flock). There are 2 porcelain d'Uccle girls in the pen and they are naturally eliminated because they are my two and half year old hens which have two seasons of breeding behind them..proven porcelain. The other two girls are a Lavender d'Uccle and a Black split to Lavender d'Uccle. It is possible that there is a silver gene in one of those girls because they were sired by a Mille d'Uccle that I did not breed here as he was a purchased replacement roo after the death of my porcelain roo. I did have one Columbian d'Uccle thrown last year by the Mille d'Uccle roo so it could simply be a throw back from the chick's grandfather if he was the silver carrier.

This is the columbian chick thrown last year:



Here he is behind the black pullet...




So at this point I am pointing the finger at the grandfather, the Mille d'Uccle replacement roo. As the chick pictured above hatched directly from his eggs and this current chick from one of his daughters most likely.