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Already on his "list"! Rockin r has some nice ones as well. Its been 2 years since i bought stock, i was just surprised to see what has and has not been done.

I agree with renee. I have shipped eggs clear to alaska and had good hatches. However i have ordered eggs from one state over and had nothing. Its far more important how fresh they are, how they are packaged and allowing them to rest after arrival. Also, be super super careful about where...

It probably was the coloring.......those chicks look like lavs. Gotta love food coloring!!

Quote: I can try to get some better shots of them. Those are under the red lights and inside the blue brooder while having blue food coloring still on them. I'll give it a try tomorrow in better lighting. What does splash mean. Splash is a white bird with black/blus splotches randomly on the...

Quote: Unless the black is already "split" to lavender, all the chicks will be black splits themselves. You don't get blue. The only way you get blue is splash to black or splash to lavender. Since the lavender "masks" the black gene, you are then breeding blue birds that carry one lavender gene.

cuckooformarans - The only blue I see is in the group shot bottom left, second bird up. Bobbieschicks - do you have other pics. Because in that lighting, those babies look splash to me.

Quote: The last hen is blue. You beat me to it.

pips&peeps : Neither would be lavender if they have red leakage. They could possibly be splits, but the lavender gene dilutes red too. I have seen dilution in my flock with only one copy. For further clarification, the could have red leakage, but it would appear as a creamy gold color...

Quote: First question - is that another "lav" behind the first bird? Second question - Is there some red feathers on the head? If the answer to both these questions is yes, I'd not use any of them to do a lavender project as it APPEARS the birds were crossed with something else. When...