Lavender Orpington Thread

Is this thread still active? I am breeding my Lavender orpingtons (I have 3 hens 1 too) this year for the first time and wanted to revive this thread if possible. Who is still out there?
 
Congratulations on the lav orp decision. I got my 1st lavs in 2014 and never regretted it. I love the shiny iridescence of the blacks and misty gray of the lavs. I have been breeding more towards the English standards because I just adore the the extra fluff - even though they’re a little more maintenance.
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I saw some other posts on here about people using a black rooster that has to carry a certain gene or something I dunno what all that means. And I saw where some people hatch lavender eggs but the birds are blue because they have a dark head. Was I reading that right or did I confuse myself. These eggs I have came from meyer I ordered them back in December and glad I did they sold out pretty quick after that.
 
Oh, great! Im glad to see there are still folks on here. I got 6 Lav Orp eggs last spring from a local backyard breeder who I was buying marans eggs from. From the six eggs I got 3 hens and a roo (a rarity for me, I usually hatch 70% roosters).
So I decided to breed them this year to get some better quality if I can.
I have one lavender hen, one blue lavender hen and one blue hen.
My rooster is lavender. Im not sure why mine we all mixed, but I assume it is common. My blue hen carries lavender, so from her I am supposed to get 25% of each (black, blue Lav, Lav, blue) so far this has been accurate. I have some day old chicks right now, but one was born with a slipped tendon in his knee (a blue), so I am not sure it will make it. He's in a chick chair at the moment with a cast on his leg. Its been a lot of work, darn chick better heal. LOL
 

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I saw some other posts on here about people using a black rooster that has to carry a certain gene or something I dunno what all that means. And I saw where some people hatch lavender eggs but the birds are blue because they have a dark head. Was I reading that right or did I confuse myself. These eggs I have came from meyer I ordered them back in December and glad I did they sold out pretty quick after that.
The black is used in breeding to keep up the feather quality. If breeding lav to lav, the feathers can look ratty after a couple generations. Breeding a lav and a black will produce a black looking bird that will carry the recessive lavender gene. = a black/lav split. Breeding that split to a lav will give 50% lav and 50% splits.
 
The black is used in breeding to keep up the feather quality. If breeding lav to lav, the feathers can look ratty after a couple generations. Breeding a lav and a black will produce a black looking bird that will carry the recessive lavender gene. = a black/lav split. Breeding that split to a lav will give 50% lav and 50% splits.
Good luck on the ICU chick.
 

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