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Yes, that is what we are doing, just continue to select for what you want. I haven't noticed a difference in breeding in either direction, as long as you're selecting the best birds to work towards your goal.

The young ones typically have bluish eye color like most young birds. I dont think ive ever seen green eyes. We are selecting for brown eyes. My current lav rooster and his hens have nice brown eyes, so hoping the youngins will have them too.

That's all exciting news Aveca! I hope you all do great and have fun at the shows. I may have to connect with you to take my lavenders to a show.

Thanks Aveca. So glad to hear you are enjoying them. Is Mr Softie hitting up the show ring this year again? Cowchick11 - it was a test to see what our white orps were "hiding" and also an opportunity to start a lavender cuckoo project for a friend of mine. I was able to confirm our whites...

A lot of people think it's as easy as looking at their feather tips, but don't realize breeders have to be selected for it. I would feel bad if you gave up your pullets not knowing this doesn't always work. Fancy Feathers - I love that pic of your little lav babies. So cute! Here is a pic...

Wing (feather) sexing is only possible if you breed for it. You have to breed fast feathering to slow feathering, which will produce the fast or slow feathering offspring on the opposite sex. For example, if you breed a fast feathering roo to slow feathering hens, the female chicks would be...

Pink, yellow and green look like cockerels. The rest look like girls so far.

Matte, the cream colored chicks you hatched are pure for mottlling (carry 2 copies of the gene). That tells me that both the father and a mother (at least one hen) is split for it. Your solid lavender colored chicks that hatched may or may not carry the gene. The only way to know would be to...

The APA standard of perfection has pictures of appropriate orp type. That really is the best to go by. For in-person comparison, I use my black and buff orps as excellent examples for breed conformation.

Quote: Cute! Do you know how old they are? The two bigger boys look like they may be a little older based on comb and wattle development, so I'm thinking 4 boys and 2 girls. D&S, that's a nice looking black rooster.

I'm referring to cukooformarans picture of the blue roo with red leakage.

The bird pictured is blue, not lavender. The red leakage is common on blue orps, from what I hear. A lavender would not be able to show rusty coloring. You may want to post pics of the others to be sure they are lavender. I have seen folks advertising lavender, but the birds are actually...

Beth, that pic is adorable! Thanks for sharing your growing peeps with us.

Jim, I see the following in the lavenders (which is consistent with what I see in pics on birds for overseas folks who have them, since this is all we have to compare them to at this time): Beak - dark blue/black Eyes - light color (not sure what to call it) Shanks - blue

Jim, thanks for working on a draft of the standard. I sent you my input privately. Let me know if you need any help with this.

Mississippifarmboy - I'm so happy to hear you're enjoying the 6th generation and they are looking nice. They certainly have come a long way since the earlier generations. It is really disappointing to hear so much negativity around the lavenders of any breed. There are a lot of other color...

I'll include here what I just told someone privately. I think it's important for people to understand that the lavender orpington project is a work in progress and needs ongoing efforts for improvement. It is pretty likely they will need additional breeding towards breed conformation which...

I don't recall seeing lavender with that much yellow. Here's a pic of how ours typically look.

What we did to get rid of the mottled in the project was culled all obvious birds that carried the gene (any white tipped feathers and white legs). We then took select lavender birds and bred them back to black again, which seems to have worked. Once we had black split chicks, we bred the...

Mediazeal, looks like you have a black mottled, a black and a lavender in your pic. Very cute! Laurie, thanks so much and congrats on doing such a great job hatching!