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Silver Laced Cochins.

You would be much better off to use blue or splash with a cuckoo, especially ones based on silver (SS). That would avoid introducing some of the reds from a black copper. Of course most of the folks with blue Marans probably have no idea if their birds are silver or gold. If you can find a...

Depends on what you want to have more of in the future. Do you want more blacks, reds, and/or jubilees?

You would have black chickens with some red bleeding in the males. There are only 2 pigments (black & red) in chicken feathers and with the exclusion of other genes black is dominate to red.

If you just want a creamy color then I would suggest crossing the lavender bird onto a production red or New Hampshire. You dont have to worry about the pattern gene with lacing, they grow much faster than Wyandottes and they lay better. If you breed F1s back to golds only 25% (not 50%) of...

Don't even keep the half that are blue. You don't want to be guessing if you have a blue instead of lavender chicks in further generations. Only 25% of your F2s will be pure for lavender. Get rid (sell) off the other 75% as mixed breed birds. Breed F2s back to laced Wyandotte. Repeat this...

You will get half black and half blue chickens. If you really want to do this and have decent laced birds then plan on 8 to 10 years. If you are interested I will tell you how.