I hope you don't either, but I'd start putting my feelers out now. You shouldn't have to much of a problem finding homes for the lavenders. That's all part of buying straight run. I had a customer this year pay me extra to grow out a hatch to ensure she got a pair of lavenders. That may be...
I don't think the breeder is unless they have extremely fast maturing pullets. These are my lavender and splash pullets at 12 almost 13 weeks. These were my blacks and blue last year at 15 weeks (notice there is almost no comb or wattle growth, besides on my cockerel) I could be wrong, just...
Do you have another pic of the black one far left? And I'm very suspicious of your other lavender, that's an awful lot of wattle for 8 weeks on an orp. And I cannot see the head of the other black one with it's face in the feeder