I really like the lavender color and was thinking about trying to get close to this in a marans. Has anyone ever tried or can it be done? I was thinking of breeding my lav orp roo to a splash marans, black copper marans, and a blue marans. But would i need to breed those offsprings back to which marans or back to the lavender orps? i know ill have to work on egg color that why im going to use the darkest hens i have for this.