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Lavenders *should* be silver based, though, right?

Are you certain the muff/beard is missing? Often there's one or two hens who get "picked on" (literally). She may have just had it picked off.

Has anyone seen a correlation with ER based birds vs E based birds and leg color? I have one roo with really dark legs, so I'm thinking it's ER based, but I've heard some people believe lavenders should be E based?

You have to have two copies of the lavender gene for it to dilute. Most likely you'll get mostly black chicks, since it is the dominant color. You never know when you'll get a surprise color though... :) ETA: since you have blues and splash, you'll get not only blacks, but a hefty portion of...

Good point! I've learned to ignore the snarkiness, especially since it's impossible to know someone's true tone through text, but I know plenty of people still get upset by it. And you are right, some of them seem to have an attitude of "when will people learn??", but the truth is, it's not the...

You're probably a little late to get on the wait list for the main Lavender breeders that sell chicks. But you can find breeders on one of the Ameraucana clubs' directories. There's also hatching eggs on the buy-sell-trade section. Not to be rude, but if you think you have Easter Eggers, you...

Exactly. Any other questions will likely be answered by the summary. :)

If you are genuinely interested in Lavenders, you should go to page 161 on this thread and read my summary of the whole thread. ;)

"Split" is a term for when it is carrying one copy of a gene. In the case of the Lavender Aneraucanas, one copy of the lavender gene. For it to show the lavender color, it needs TWO of these genes. So it is called a "split" because it is "black split with lavender". Kind of like splitting...

Also, to clarify, black split to lavender displays the black color. You would not be able to physically see if it was carrying the lavender gene.

Did I miss anything??

LAVENDER AMERAUCANAS Lavender is also known as “self blue”. It is NOT related to the “blue” gene. It is actually a diluted form of black. Currently, lavender is not an accepted color of Ameraucana’s. It is an accepted color of Silkies (called self blue), so there is hope to get it approved in...

Okay, so I’m a newbie, but bear with me. I just spent the last two days reading through all 161 pages of this thread. I thought I’d summarize common topics that have come up more than once. That way, other newcomers don’t have to read through all the pages like I did (and so the same question...