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Chris I totally appreciate you helping us out on this. I know to many it was more a pressing question about this guy then to me. However, I would like to know too. And adjust my breeding IF I choose to use him. him being BUSTOFF too, the daddy of this boy. BUS is the 1/2 Black Australorp and 1/2 Doug Akers Buff Orp mix I used with a true Blue Splash, who's breeder also raises lavs and told me first I had a Lav. Then I asked a few more folks who either raise and breed Lavs or is an APA judge and the other half of my BUS breeding, Doug Akers. Doug said SELF Blue. That is when I introduced a post on another thread the other day, that said, I believe my splash was not, and infact was not a splash, but a self blue.
I did do a bit of research and called and talked to the owner of MT Healthy. He did say they bring in new blood in his Australorp program periodically. He says from Hatcheries like Ideal. IF the true Lav gene was passed down, I believe it would possible to have that gene come from the Australorp on my cockerel's side. I can invision in mid summer on 2008 some Black Lav splits passing for Australorps and being introduced to a hatchery, by mistake as a POSSIBILITY of where the gene came from. Just a wild long shot theory. I can not see Doug Akers Buff Orpington's having a Lavender gene.
Chris I totally appreciate you helping us out on this. I know to many it was more a pressing question about this guy then to me. However, I would like to know too. And adjust my breeding IF I choose to use him. him being BUSTOFF too, the daddy of this boy. BUS is the 1/2 Black Australorp and 1/2 Doug Akers Buff Orp mix I used with a true Blue Splash, who's breeder also raises lavs and told me first I had a Lav. Then I asked a few more folks who either raise and breed Lavs or is an APA judge and the other half of my BUS breeding, Doug Akers. Doug said SELF Blue. That is when I introduced a post on another thread the other day, that said, I believe my splash was not, and infact was not a splash, but a self blue.
I did do a bit of research and called and talked to the owner of MT Healthy. He did say they bring in new blood in his Australorp program periodically. He says from Hatcheries like Ideal. IF the true Lav gene was passed down, I believe it would possible to have that gene come from the Australorp on my cockerel's side. I can invision in mid summer on 2008 some Black Lav splits passing for Australorps and being introduced to a hatchery, by mistake as a POSSIBILITY of where the gene came from. Just a wild long shot theory. I can not see Doug Akers Buff Orpington's having a Lavender gene.
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