Up for bid is at least 10 eggs from my Lavender Ameraucana project pens. My birds are large fowl and my pure lavs are from Harry Shaffer lines. My "A" pen is a lavender cockerel over two lavender pullets and will hatch all lav offspring, but these girls are stingy and don't give me many eggs. My "B" pen is a lavender cockerel over two of my best lavender pullets and four fabulous black pullets from Paul Smith that lay a nice, large egg. The lav male in this pen weighed 4lb 12 oz at 6 months of age and the two lav pullets in this pen weighed 4 lb 3 oz and 4 lb 0 oz at six months of age. I have added a "C" pen which has my heaviest (5 lb 14 oz) lavender cockerel (now fully recovered from his fox attack) over three black pullets from Jean Ribbeck's 2010 split x split pen; these three pullets are visually black but I know at least one of them already carries the lavender gene as I have hatched lav chicks from this pen.
Splits are probable and should be expected. I have been hatching approximately 50% splits here. A "split" is a visually black bird that carries the lavender gene hidden. Splits bred to each other will produce 25% lavender offspring. Splits bred back to lavender will produce 50% lavender offspring and more splits.
The lavenders are a work in progress and lavender is not yet recognized as a standard color variety by either APA or ABA in this breed. Some of the eggs are still quite green at this point of development, in my opinion. I have also hatched some clean faced offspring even though all of the breeder birds are muffed. If this is an issue for you, please do not bid.
I will be collecting eggs Wed Feb 16th through Sun Feb 20th for a Tue Feb 22 ship date (ETA-someone brought to my attention that the post office is closed that Monday). Whatever I get in those five days will be included in this auction; I won't hold any back. I will pack the eggs very well, but shipping can be very damaging and there is always a risk when shipping hatching eggs through the mail. Please do not bid if you cannot accept the risks involved with shipping eggs. No shipment outside the Continental U.S.
Paypal payment must be received by the night of the 20th for shipment on the 22nd.
Here are some pictures of my birds and their offspring. They are all my own flock and the pictures were taken by me. If you see these pics elsewhere, they were used without my permission.
This is what my eggs look like
Splits are probable and should be expected. I have been hatching approximately 50% splits here. A "split" is a visually black bird that carries the lavender gene hidden. Splits bred to each other will produce 25% lavender offspring. Splits bred back to lavender will produce 50% lavender offspring and more splits.
The lavenders are a work in progress and lavender is not yet recognized as a standard color variety by either APA or ABA in this breed. Some of the eggs are still quite green at this point of development, in my opinion. I have also hatched some clean faced offspring even though all of the breeder birds are muffed. If this is an issue for you, please do not bid.
I will be collecting eggs Wed Feb 16th through Sun Feb 20th for a Tue Feb 22 ship date (ETA-someone brought to my attention that the post office is closed that Monday). Whatever I get in those five days will be included in this auction; I won't hold any back. I will pack the eggs very well, but shipping can be very damaging and there is always a risk when shipping hatching eggs through the mail. Please do not bid if you cannot accept the risks involved with shipping eggs. No shipment outside the Continental U.S.
Paypal payment must be received by the night of the 20th for shipment on the 22nd.
Here are some pictures of my birds and their offspring. They are all my own flock and the pictures were taken by me. If you see these pics elsewhere, they were used without my permission.
This is what my eggs look like
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