Thank you so much onthespot, and I'm glad to hear you are so pleased. I bet those babies end up being very spoiled! You know, there's enough stuffing in that box to make a pillow..lol.
(I swear, I did not pay her to say all those things..lol)
AWESOME!!! That's a great percentage of lav! And you used a broody for these eggs? Maybe the trick for getting higher lav percentages is to use broody hens instead of incubators..
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You really don't know for sure until you breed them. However, I am seeing a silvery sheen on some of my black chicks at hatching, and not on others.
Thanks yotetrapper for responding to that. To expand a little further, if you take a split/lav to a visually lavender bird, you will increase your percentages to 50/50 offspring. Meaning, you will get either visually lavender chicks, or split/lav chicks. Then, take visually lav birds to...
I am offering up for auction 12+ Split/Lavender Orpington eggs from my project pen. These eggs will yield 25% lav/50% split/25% black chicks...though the results can vary. I just hatched 2 lavs out of 5 eggs today, myself. My split/lav breeding stock are from hinkjc's beautiful rooster...