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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    Could they be splash? I thought I saw some dark splotches on one wing.
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    Lavender does cause those properties in the feathers. I would just concentrate on overall bird quality, size and combs, large feet, larger head, bigger eyes, dark pigment, and not worry about what lavender does to feathers. No matter how many hundred times you outcross to black, when you get...
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    Awwww... CRUM!
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    Here is the wing of the only chick I have that I know is hatched from an egg she laid. It is across the back of a cockerel that is going red in the face but not crowing yet. (future dinner bird) for comparison of the colors. See how it is not really black and white, when compared to the...
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    She has been broody for a couple weeks, so I think her lobes are more pale than white. For barred olive eggers, not too concerned about lobe color, just barring enough to sex the chicks at hatch, and dark green eggs. Secondary traits like beards and clean shanks optional. They are not supposed...
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    I will have to wait for the molt and see what color she is then... hmmmm.... She has never looked "black" per se.
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    She isn't black. Don't know for sure what color she is! Sorry about the blurry pics. Splashed my lense and didn't realize it.
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    I don't have muscovies any more. i was watching them for Mrs.Smith here on byc until she got her house built. Then she had me place them, and got others. I can try to email the guy that got them and see if he still has them and see if they are laying.
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    Time will tell... Right now, after posting this stuff, I feel like driving up there and pulling that roo out of the muscovy pen and taking pics of the hen in question. Better wait till daylight though I guess.
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    I'm thinking to go just with black, the best black I can, and keep the genes very simple, black, choclate, and lose the barring, pea comb and feathered shanks, working on type all the time. Maybe my BamaChicken over done orps will be just the ticket here... maybe? Can't hurt to try. If nothing...
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    The fact that the daddy has feathered legs, probably the daddy was a marans. Since he is single gened, it cuts out the cuckoos. No silver leakage on him or any others, rules out the birchen and blue birchen marans. Clean legs rules out the leghorns and clean legged marans. There really are only...
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    Yeah, and he is sweet too. Pretty crappy type for orp though... Five steps back if I cross that on an orp, but you gotta start somewhere. He is even kid freindly!
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    The mother is my orignial barred EE hen. I got her from someone who raised her from chickhood. She was "a feed store chick" and was in a pen with about fifteen or twenty other roos, mostly marans. I will never know who da "baby daddy" is for the roo I kept out of the fertile eggs she laid when I...
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    I think one of my barred olive eggers is chocolate. No lie. She has really poor barring, but I don't care, because I want to lose the barring anyhow and cross her on some orps and other stuff I have. I will have to remember to take my camera next time I go feed. She is broody right now but I...
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    I didn't know orp feathers had to be two inches from the gound. Can someone here post the APA standard for Orpingtons? Thanks!
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    Big! BamaChicken told me she likes the chicks that hatch out with "big heads" and a pretty eye. Large, gentle roos, broader across the back than the lavenders tend to be, more "poof" to their look, and softer tail feathers. I will see if I can find one of her pics and post it here. Hope she...
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    Okay, i will help. As soon as the my eggs are fertile, I will HELP you! LOL
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    Lavender Orpington project ....

    Wow! They look great! I TOLD you I thought it was a pair the day they hatched! I just had a "first egg" two days ago from my first home bred lav. There is no roo old enough to breed her so it is a dud. I will eat it. It will be the first lav orp egg I ever ate, LMAO. It looks exactly like the...
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