What colors are my D'anvers chicks?

[SarahLadd]

According to the purchase, possible colors are blue buff columbian, blue mille fleur, red mille fleur, porcelain, lavender quail, and "colors resulting from these"!

 

[HappyClucker7]

It's hard to tell with babies, especially if most of them have some kind of blue/lavender. I think it would be best to post more pictures when they are a little older.

 

[SarahLadd]

@Amer , Can you tell me what the prevalence is of that scruffy looking feather lavenders tend to have within american d'anvers populations? I have a lavender orpington that is so ratty looking and I lowkey hate it.

 

[Amer]

@Amer , Can you tell me what the prevalence is of that scruffy looking feather lavenders tend to have within american d'anvers populations? I have a lavender orpington that is so ratty looking and I lowkey hate it.

I have not yet seen a lavender bird with feathers I like tbh.
I understand there is a wing patch gene, but it seems to me like all lavender birds have feather quality issues (minus two lavender blue hens I own, strangely enough), so either they all have it or I haven’t seen one without it, or their feather quality just sucks. Lavender originates in Belgian Bantams and the only breed trait I consider a con in d’Anvers is the lavender demon they unleashed in this world.
I just am not a fan of lavender. I’m sorry!

 

[SarahLadd]

I have not yet seen a lavender bird with feathers I like tbh.
I understand there is a wing patch gene, but it seems to me like all lavender birds have feather quality issues (minus two lavender blue hens I own, strangely enough), so either they all have it or I haven’t seen one without it, or their feather quality just sucks. Lavender originates in Belgian Bantams and the only breed trait I consider a con in d’Anvers is the lavender demon they unleashed in this world.
I just am not a fan of lavender. I’m sorry!

Whoa. I did not know that. That's kinda bananas. Can I see your lavender hens?

 

[SarahLadd]

It's been a whole week already?? Dang. New lens, new pics. Enjoy.

 

[SarahLadd]

These are coming in a bit late, my chicken photographer is editing wedding photos.

Week 2. Kinda curious about the curly wing feathers on some of them. They can fly out of the brooder now and very spry.

 

[SarahLadd]

Alright, here we go again with another round of photos. Week 3.......

Still accepting guesses although I'm pretty sure the orange one is millefleur and I know I've got 3 likely porcelains in there. The two oddballs that had V-shaped dark spots on their heads I still have no clue whatsoever but as their head feathers are replacing down it's getting harder to single them out. In the first image, they are the first two on my fingers and thumb. The ones I think are the porcelains have white backs and the oddballs have gray backs.

 

[SarahLadd]

Hello again everyone,

My birds are now ten weeks old and I'm coming back in for re-assessment.

There is one less bird in images as a result of becoming a snack for local wildlife.

Nipple and Muffless are my roosters in the bunch, the rest I believe are pullets, and pullet 3 is highly likely to be a red millefleur.

 

[Tervuren]

New to chickens, so I definitely can't help with color ID. I just want to say that your photography is wonderful and your chickens are gorgeous! <3