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Lavender Mottled is just another pretty variety (color), in my opinion. Here is a lavender mottled d'Uccle. Pretty, I think.........

Quote: hahaha, good one, matte! Let's see if Jeremy will do that! Alot of people culled out the mottled, and now they are sorta hard to find. I have had several people ask me about getting them, but I no longer have any. If you breed for the Lavender Mottled, you will likely get several requests.

Quote: Do you have the parent stock yourself? If so, go look at their leg color. I believe you have a mottled in there. Your yellow chicks are mottled.

Quote: I did put them with Black English, and a friend of mine in Iowa has all of those from this year. I kept my Lavender girls. They are penned with a Black English rooster now. Hope to have more splits in the spring. I will have to get some updated pictures.

I did not start this thread to have a debate on terminology, nor did I start it to discuss the APA SOP. If you would like to discuss that, please start your own thread. Now, back to the Lavender Orps..................

Quote: The gene is Lavender! (lav) In animals they sure use weird color names, don't they?! A blue heeler dog, for example.... When an animal's coat is described as "blue", it usually refers to a shade of grey. Why some animal are called blue when in fact their color is not blue? When an...

Quote: Just get some nice Black Orps to mate with him! That would be making progress in the project! Good luck!

Quote: Sure, I don't care if you use them. can I see more of them? See post #1 for the earlier generations, except for this picture..... it is a mottled.

Actually, the shade of lavender I have in my Orp project birds is the same shade as the Lavender Ameraucanas I have.

Quote: Actually, in my experience, each generation gets lighter, not darker. Here is a picture of early generation birds. Small and dark. http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab31/kathyinmo/Lav%20Orps/LavOrps4-13-10022.jpg Interesting... do you mind if I use your pics for educational purposes...

Quote: I don't think they are too light either, that's why they are self blue/ lavender. Your rooster does not look a 100% lavender line in my opinion. I think he looks more splash color or light blue for an orpington. My 2 cents. I was gonna say the same thing. That does not look like a...

Quote: Actually, in my experience, each generation gets lighter, not darker. Here is a picture of early generation birds. Small and dark. http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab31/kathyinmo/Lav%20Orps/LavOrps4-13-10022.jpg this is actually what I was saying... they were too light and you have...

Quote: I know this is an ongoing project, but I believe they are too light, at one point it needs to out breed to blacks to regain melanizers to make it one shade darker.. Actually, in my experience, each generation gets lighter, not darker. Here is a picture of early generation birds. Small...

Quote: I don't know what generation BethG has. If, for example, she has 2nd generation and breeds them together (no new blacks), they will continue to be 2nd generation. The next generation is the result obtained after mating them to blacks.

Quote: I'm not sure so I think that is a question for Jody or Charlie (hinkjc) I've never worked with the mottle. Kathy those are nice, nice. I have 6th generation from Jody and they are on the black english rooster and a lav roo on the english black girls. Not hatching til next...

I had only a pair of 5th generation (hinkjc stock) Lavender projects; Lavender male and split female. Sooooo, I hatched several of their eggs (I kept 6 females and 1 male) and plan to continue on with them, mating them to black Imported English Orps.

Quote: In my experience, the earlier generations are darker and smaller. I had the earlier generations, and I now have 5th generation birds from hinkjc stock. They are much much larger and are lighter colored. I believe Nancy (bargain) has early generation stock. I don't think she has...

I took a few pictures in my Lavender Orp project pen of grow outs. Well, I have another pen, too ...."the processing pen," that has even more Lavender boys!

Quote: Great for you! 4 pullets is great! Enjoy them. They are such a pretty color, don't ya think!

Quote: I told you it was a mottled! YAY for Lavender Mottled!