Four out of five ROOs?!

[bootsNbirds]

Just hoping I'm wrong.... I got 5 Lavender Orpingtons 3 months ago. After giving them a long hard look tonight, I think that FOUR of them may be roosters! And the fifth is a midget, there's something wrong with it.

Any chance that this is just how Lav Orp pullets look at 12 weeks?

(they all look exactly the same)

 

[donrae]

from someone who grew up in Denair!

Sorry, but that's a cockerel.

 

[bootsNbirds]

Oh, thanks for the welcome

Welll crap.... Does anybody want a roo?

I guess I'll just have to concentrate on breeding my BBS Orps.

 

[bootsNbirds]

Or can I use one of the roos to breed to one of the BBS and get more lavender chicks?

 

[keesmom]

Breed him to your blacks. All resulting offspring will be black but carry lavender. Then the following season breed those pullets back to the lavender male. That breeding will give you 50% lavender and 50% black carrying lavender.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Yup, that's a cockerel.

 

[BantamLover21]

Definitely a cockerel.

 

[bootsNbirds]

Quote: Oh ok, at least they're not a total waste. Thanks! I'm only scratching the surface of all this breeding & genetics stuff, so it's really helpful to have it all spelled out. What happens if you breed Lavender to Blue or Splash? Just more splash?