Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[cottagegarden]

Thank you~
8 months!! You wait almost as long to see if you made good choices for egg color as you do to have a real baby!!
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I love the size and color of these eggs

Awesome!

 

[NateDomRIR]

Can someone explain to me what "split Lav " is and how did Lavender come about?

I understand B/B/S and ordering some soon from Paul Smith.

 

[chicken stalker]

To be visually lavender the chicken has to carry 2 lavender genes, one from mom and one from dad.
Split lavender is a chicken that carries 1 copy of the lavender gene, they are not visually lavender. Most often they will visually black.

Lavender x lavender= 100%lavender
Lavender x nonlavender= 100% split lavender

ok here's a punnett square for split lav x lavender

father (visually lavender)
(L)av (L)av
mother (split lav)
(visually black but carries one lav gene) (L)av (L)av (L)av (L)av (L)av
(l)av (L)av (l)av L)av (l)av

Therefore
50% Lavender
50% Split Lavender (visually black)

ok here's a punnett square for split lav x split lav

father (split lav)
(L)av (l)av
mother (split lav)
(visually black but carries one lav gene) (L)av (L)av (L)av (L)av (l)av
(l)av (L)av (l)av l)av (l)av

Therefore
25% Lavender
50% Split Lavender (visually black)
25% non lavender (has no lavender genes)

 

[Goose and Fig]

Do you have to use black when going for split/lav? Would it matter if you used a different color? I need to improve type in my lav cochins, and I have an awesome mottled one- round as a basketball.

Where did the lav originate from? Was it one breed that was used to introduce it to ameracauna, orps, cochins and the like?

 

[chicken stalker]

It's best to use black because the lavender gene is a diluter. So if there are other colors present they will be diluted. These maybe colors that you had no idea were present. I believe the mottled gene also needs two copies to present itself. Lavender has been perpetuated by selective breeding. John Blehm developed lavender ameraucana.

 

[NateDomRIR]

chicken stalker

Thanks for the info. I'm going to have to research this more in depth.

Does anyone have any good websites for Lavender study?

Thanks,
Nate in East Texas

 

[chicken stalker]

If you want to play with colors and see what you get use the kip chicken calculator. It's funn to mess around with and see what you would get.
http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html

 

[neuchicontheblock]

This is Chili, a wonderful roo who is just stating to come into his own. I rehomed the other two more dominent roo's because they weren't as pleasing as Chili is, and the hens are thinking about going broody and I finally got my first eggs out of them.

 

[herbandteas]

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I have a black silkie roo I want breed to my blue cochens. So I am wondering with the blue and the black if I will get something lavender with the hatch when i do get them to hatch.

 

[chicken stalker]

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I have a black silkie roo I want breed to my blue cochens. So I am wondering with the blue and the black if I will get something lavender with the hatch when i do get them to hatch.

no, the lavender gene is on a different locus. Blue and black share the same locus.