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Quote: Boy, this sounds interesting. Thanks for the great explanations. Do you have any pictures of yours before you decided against working with them? And, I would be very grateful for your help and advice!

Quote: It is actually, we'll sorta... Your chicks are split to or recessivly carrying the Mottled gene. Breeding the recessive Mottled chicks together will produce Regular (no Mottled gene) Lavs, recessive Mottled Lavs and finally true Mottled Lavender birds. At least that is how I...

Wow, those are going to be pretty. So, how would I go forward from here? Breed my mottled chicks to each other, choose the offspring with the most mottling and keep breeding back? Or could I ever get there without breeding out to a true mottled variety? BTW, 6 of my 26 hatched were mottled...

Neat pictures/examples--thanks. I'm guessing that developing visually mottled lavender orpingtons is not as simple as breeding my mottled chicks to each other??

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...

Mottled it is then---Thank you to everyone for your expertise! This forum is like having a personal geneticist on call at all times. I really appreciate the help! Jeremy, if they are that enticing, I'll keep posting pictures until you agree to a trade.

Okay, this is the best I could do...they are under a red heat lamp, so the color is off, but at least you can see the difference I referred to:

Quote: BTW It's not fair not to share the source of such nice looking birds! I was only asking because if it is someone who is very active on the forum, chances are someone on this thread would know a little about their birds and be able to give some insight. Oh, I know. You all have been...

Quote: Thanks! I think they are really nice, but these odd chicks worried me. I should have some pics of the chicks up within 30 minutes. Jumping ahead, but I plan to sell some of my chicks locally. If I sell only the true Lavender-looking chicks, could they still be carrying the mottled...

Thanks for all of the comments. Yes, I'm sure you're right...what I am describing as "olive" is probably slate. I'm just not familiar with the correct terms. I don't want to say which breeder I purchased mine from, but I think they are well-thought of on this forum. I was told they were...

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. Yes, I have the parent stock. All of their leg color is the same---dark green/olive. Can I get chicks that are mottled when none of the...

About 10% of my lavender chicks that just hatched are almost all yellow. They have a spot of lavender on their backs (same lavender color as the other chicks) and a very small lavender spot on their heads. Other than that, even their beak is yellow as compared to some olive colored beaks in...

Quote: Lavender and self-blue are the same color. The lavender is a recessive gene, so any visually lavender bird (not to be confused with blues) will produce 100 % lavender if bred to another visually lavender bird. The black/lav pairing produces all visually black birds carrying one lav...

When a lav is crossed to a black, as several of you are doing to improve type, at what point are you back to self-blue? If that is not the correct term, when is it that you can once again breed lav to lav and always get lav? If you only use the lavenders that come out of the cross (first...

"Terry Britt suggested we hatch our Orpingtons in December and January for the best possible size birds. Type must be there, but size can be enviroment. I have a Buff Orp male that will never reach his potential. He was ahtched in late April 2010. But his chicks, if hatched early, will reach...