I would recommend re-homing or eating all of the dark males, and keeping the one lavender roo. Lavender and black are the same gene, so you would probably get beautiful mixes in the future that way
You are absolutely correct. We bought them from a feed store who got them from a hatchery. They were vent-sexed, supposedly. The manager of the feed store is very understanding and pretty upset with the hatchery. I just got off the phone with him and he said we aren't the only ones that complained.How I read it, they had their carefully selected and vent sexed pullet chicks sent to the local feed store together with other chicks.
But maybe you are right, the OP might clarify.
LavenderxBlack will only make black that carries a lavender gene unseen
The second any inbreeding occurs I would imagine it'll flare up again. That just means a single generation gap
The dark chickens are Australorps. They are great egg layers. So, we will likely keep one of them as well to make more australorps.
Where did you get the Cream Legbars and how old are they?
They aren't in the photo. We drove to Mississippi and picked them up from Omega that got his breeding stock from Greenfire farms. They were hatched in June.
On the legbars? We bought a cocker too.
