Blue/black/splash genes

[wilds of pa]

lavenders/self blue can all look different.
all depends how you are using the gene and to what colors it is being applied to, lavender is a diluter gene.

for us we have the lavender gene put into black orpington which in turn produces a "fairly nice even shade of lavender". working on our 5th generation at this point with them..
also working on a lavender/self blue araucana project as well..

However if one would have birds bleeding red through black and bred them to a bird with the a visual lavender gene the end results will produce off colors in the off spring. the colors would/may have a creamish and lavender look about to some of them. of course it will take a few selective breeding to see the results of the crossings.

so yes one can make a variety of off lavender colors and or nice evenly shaded lavenders/self blues, just depending on what one is using to create the color..

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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How about Splash x Splash = White?

 

[speckledhen]

How about Splash x Splash = White?

No, splash x splash = splash​

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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No, splash x splash = splash

WRONG!!! I've had this happen before. I had a set of Splash silkies in a pen to gether and ever other egg that the hen layed was a white silkie. They were the only two in that cage for 1 year. So just because it lloks good on paper, nature has her own plans!

 

[speckledhen]

Well, genes are fickle things, that's true, but as far as I've always known, you can only get splash from a splash to splash breeding.

 

[wilds of pa]

maybe one or both were dominate white (with leakage) and thought to be splash??

 

[speckledhen]

That's what I was just thinking, Charlie. Sometimes, you just don't know what genes are hiding in there.

 

[wilds of pa]

Yup..with silkies they can be confusing id think because there plumage is so fluffy and not like that of a hard feather.. but you just never know in the genetic world! lol

 

[Brody's Broodello]

My point exactly, you can quote the science books all day, but people are getting birds in one color,not knowing their background breeding. They breed 2 birds together, expect them to bredd"true" and when they get a different result are totally confused. So I would like to say, if people want to but on the Blue x Blue = Blue ie that they also state that this is a theory, that nature always has a plan. I received Balck silkies from a Master breeder once that had 15 gens of black breedings and guess what he hatched out, you got it a white! So nature is not an exact science that is why you get a genetic mutation once in awhile!

 

[speckledhen]

Yup, you do. I hatched a completely barred cockerel from a Blue Orp x RIR/Buff Orp hen, so I've seen the unexpected, too.