Amers d’Anvers

[Amer]

It would be cool to have some d’Anvers discussions on here, so I’ll start by sharing pictures of my birds.
I always wanted blues and cuckoos, so I got some last year, but I’ve been raising quails for two years, which isn’t a really long time, but right now my efforts are being realized in show wins because the parents, while not very good themselves, had all of the genetics necessary to produce excellent offspring.
I’m breeding to the SOP.
I’ll show the parents later. (Except Ziggy, since she’s pictured here.) Currently not many blue and cuckoo pics because they are younger.

A lavender blue chick (he popped up among the blues and splashes, and a blue chick. I just liked the posing here.)

Cuckoo boys as chicks. They’re really cute and friendly compared to my other varieties throughout their lives.

Little fledglings.

Ziggy, cuckoo hen. I bred her with a black to produce single-factor cuckoo boys. Her comb got bitten in the middle, so it looks really weird. I’m breeding her to a Dominique for the silver gene and clearer barring because cuckoos tend to be washed up, and the cockerels always show brass because they’re so diluted.

Stripes, Ziggy’s son. I need to get a more recent picture. He has super nice type but terrible color and brassiness.

Queeny, a quail pullet. She’s my favorite because of her posing abilities and friendliness. Excellent type.

Queeny at a show.

Praline at a show.

Monkey at a show. She got reserve champion RCCL in Junior.

Monkey, or Chunky Monkey (she has slightly looser feathers so she looks chubby.) has fabulously sharp lacing, but her type isn’t as good as Queeny’s. And I think her eyes are smaller and less cute.

burrito

Queeny. Her lacing looks good in this picture, and it is good, but Monkey’s is better IRL.

Praline.

The older blue cockerel. I still haven’t chosen which I like better yet.

 

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@The Moonshiner @Overo Mare @Sapphire Sebright @MagpieDucks

 

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@SBFChickenGirl

 

[Painted Calls]

Magnificent. Yes, I need these.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
*Melts.*

 

[The Moonshiner]

I need your barn. Its awesome.

 

[Amer]

I need your barn. Its awesome.

If only more than 25 percent of it was actually being used for chicken space. My dad fills it with junk making it a useless labyrinth that make it much harder to capture fowls. Also only one half has a metal roof. The other is poorly tarred and foamed and requires many rain buckets.

 

[Amer]

The property inspector said to tear it down.

 

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Two blue pullets.

My baby splash who got bullied (so she has a scab on her head.

Stripes

Diamond, the mother of most my best quails. She’s not the best for beard, but her type is good and her patterning is excellent, so she is the perfect match for typey and beardy yet oversized Hotshot.
I’d show you Hotshot, the father, but he’s in a molt rn.

 

[Amer]

Lovebird and Luna, my two pet hens. They wander wherever they like and love human interaction.