Lavender Orpington Thread

[Newyorkrita]

Yes. My lav orps lay pinkish eggs. Basically a brown egg with a pink bloom. My silver laced orps lay more of a brown egg.

My fav lavender hen is Darling. I love her round body and quiet temperment.
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My lav pullet is Calamity. (Her blk/lav split sister = Chaos) She's not as pretty but her funny curious personality is why I kept her. She's always in the middle of it all.
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They look really pretty to me.!!

 

[gootziecat]

Faraday, which rooster did you decide to use as a breeder.? I couldn't help but wonder if the lavender's leakage was due to the sun. I've had lavender roosters that looked terribly brassy and it appeared to be leakage, but wasn't.

 

[Faraday40]

Faraday, which rooster did you decide to use as a breeder.? I couldn't help but wonder if the lavender's leakage was due to the sun. I've had lavender roosters that looked terribly brassy and it appeared to be leakage, but wasn't.

I ended up keeping the black lav split. He gave us a very nice lavender rooster.

"Dinner" was a good boy and very pretty. He ended up being a laced Isabelle orp. (Each lavender feather had a golden laced edge.) It was not a breeding project I wanted to explore, so I found Dinner a good home. He ended up being a good breeder for his new owner.

 

[Faraday40]

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?

I'm still here.

 

[Faraday40]

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.

 

[cmobley]

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.

 

[Newyorkrita]

I am just following. I am not breeding.

 

[Minky]

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

 

[Faraday40]

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.