The chicks for sale are visually black, however some may carry the lavender gene. Lav to lav does give all lavender chicks. We are currently breeding lavender to split lav/black birds, which is producing some lav chicks and some black chicks. We are only continuing with lav chicks for our project, so looking for pet homes for the excess black chicks that are hatching along with them. We are not using blue or splash in this project at all. I hope that answers your question. Thanks for your inquiry.