Checking Lavender Cockerel's Viability

[adubsroit]

Yard full o' rocks :

On the calculator, Delawares are Columbian, silver wheaten based, barred

Just to make sure of your information, it would look like this: Co/Co (Columbian), S/- & E^Wh/e^b (for silver, wheaten based) and b+/- (for Barring)? I figure those are the big genes to worry about, everything else seems right; end result looks fine.

This is what it came up with:

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

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Just to make sure of your information, it would look like this: Co/Co (Columbian), S/- & E^Wh/e^b (for silver, wheaten based) and b+/- (for Barring)? I figure those are the big genes to worry about, everything else seems right; end result looks fine.

This is what it came up with:
http://kippenjungle.nl/kipkiezer_bestanden/zwartzilvercolumbia.JPG

Barring should be B+/-

 

[lildinkem]

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Not a bad idea at all. My test run produced a nice BO/Australorpy mix. And that was cause the Buff Orp girls I got had never produced a fertile egg. Once I knew they could I bought a Buff cock to start my Buff program.
I have some project Lavs splits. One set are Cuckoo Orp cockerels that are a Lav split. They look Cuckoo, but one or both should carry the Lav gene.

 

[adubsroit]

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So I actually played with the chicken calculator and it is near impossible, with a only two birds, to produce a legitimate "Coronation" Delaware. From what I got, I would breed my Lav Orp to my Delaware; all would hatch black and some split. From there the F1's would need to be bred back to each other and but its something like a 2% chance out of some 60 some breedings that I will find something that holds some semblance of a Coronation bird.. If this is the honest case and not my flubbing on the calculator (which it very well may be), I can now understand why Coronations go for so much.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I crossed my Lavender rooster over a Light Sussex, and all chicks are solid black.

 

[adubsroit]

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I crossed my Lavender rooster over a Light Sussex, and all chicks are solid black.

Do you have any pictures of the the Light Sussex X Lavender? Was the Lavender also a Sussex, or Orpington? What are the birds like (temperament, rate of egg lay, physically)?

 

[kathyinmo]

Lavender Orpington project rooster. Yes, I have pictures..... here is a thread...
I need to update with a newer picture, too.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=359537

OK .... I got some updated pictures ....

Female:

Male:

 

[adubsroit]

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Your birds are awesome. In reference to the other thread: how are ya doing with the coronation breedings?

 

[kathyinmo]

Those are pictures from today. When they are old enough to breed ....... then I will find out!