Chocolate orpingtons x black orpington split for lavender

Angeljim1995

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I had a question guys, if I have black orpingtons split for lavender hens and a chocolate orpington roo what would I get out of that? Would they just be black orpingtons split for chocolate? Or should I just stick to breeding my chocolate orpington pair?

Thanks in advance guys! :)
 
sorry that was hard to understand

which is your pullet which is your roo and what are you trying to acheive

if you want to acheive Lavender Feathering here is the history


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Im guessing a Black and Buff will give you lavender and ideally a red instead off buff
 
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Thank you for replying but what I ment to say is that I have a pair of chocolate orpingtons and I am thinking of crossing the chocolate rooster with one of my black orpington hens which is split for lavender so it would be something like this:

Chocolate orpington rooster x Black orpington hen (which is split for lavender) = ???

Do you think the fact that the black orpington hen has a lavender gene would affect the coloration of the babies?

Thank you again :)
 
I already have a flock of lavender orps by the way. I just want to see if I could cross the black with the chocolate and still only get blacks and chocolate.
 
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i've only just started with Orps

i got a 3 week old Buff

a 7 hour old Buff

6 Buff in bator
6 lemon cukkoo in the bator

and once they are done

gonna set a few lavender, choc and blacks 6 of each

then i will look at my numbers and set some jubilee's

here in uk they are common so getting eggs is pretty easy
 
Lav and chocolate both dilute black... lav is recessive and u need 2 copy's of the gene for it to show as a visually lav bird male or female... chocolate is sex linked recessive the roosters need 2 genes to be chocolate and the hens only need one gene... so if you crossed a chocolate rooster over a split to lav hen u would get all chocolate hens with 50% split to lav... the roosters would all be black with 100% split to chocolate and 50% split to lav... the lav gene would not make any difference at all the 1st generation... but when u breed the F1's together assuming u had the ones that carried both lav and chocolate u would end up with 25% of birds that where both chocolate and lav... i don't know what would happen then lol.... i have not seen any research as to witch gene is stronger and would show up... i would think that they would not mix one would over power the other... if i had to guess i would say the hens would be lav as the lav has 2 genes to the chocolates one... but the roosters would have 2 genes of each so i have know idea what color they would end up as...
 

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