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I have one lavender ameracauna hatched. So far, no signs from the other eggs. Hoping at least one more hatches...

So many good questions, and after a year reading BYC threads, it doesn't sound like as much of a foreign language :D

Oh, so I shouldn't use a black from a blue line breeding with a lav program? I received three bbs am eggs with eleven lav am eggs. Since I don't have a purpose for the bbs chicks, if they hatch, I am dreaming up uses. I can always find a home for females, but the boys present more of a problem...

Thank you! That's what I thought I remembered, but really wasn't sure. Thank you for the test breeding tip too!

If I were to obtain a black roo from a bbs breeding, could he be used in lav breeding? As I understand, there is not much difference between a black chicken and a black bbs chicken? Am I missing a genetic link somewhere? The blue gene is a diluting gene correct? If not present then you get...

Here is a picture of my one and only lav to hatch. "She" was the only chick to hatch period out of 14 shipped eggs . So she is shown with her emergency hatch mate, a feed store EE. She didn't like the tile counter and would not stand on it, lol.

I had my first ever lav am hatch last night. At midnight I heard a loud darn out, "PEEEEEEEEP,! PEEP, PEEP!" I thoughtto myself that a chick had hatched and wondered how I had missed that? Went to look and Peep had just managed to get a small fragment of egg shell off and was peeping up a storm...

kynewbchickie, that is a great story! I also have a child on the spectrum (PDDNOS, which is a frustrating diagnosis), and initially got Inti chickens for similar reasons. He hasn't connected with them like I had initially thought he was, but I can so relate with what you wrote and your emotion...