Help me solve the mystery!

[careeka22]

Blue chicks can vary in their shade of blue and can look like lavender.
Here are a couple of my chicks.
Blue on the left and lavender on the right.
Most times blues are just a bit to dark to be lavender. Seeing that I think comes with experience in hatching quite a bit of both colors.
You can also take into account who they came from.
Your chicks do have a lavender gene from the rooster but to be lavender they would have to also get a gene from their mother.
CWs are from CA Greys and WL. CG is straight forward extended black with barring. WL are dominate white over ???.
They can have a few different things going on underneath. I think its rare for them to have blue but like I said its not unheard of.
Now as for a WL to be carrying lavender. I would say that is next to being impossible. As far as I've found no one besides myself has solid lavender leghorns in the states.
Now someone else out there might but it would be pretty slim that anyone does and those birds made it into a production line of WLs and then into a CW breeding group.
So some of it is an eye for details and some a knowledge of birds to know what's common or could of made it into certain breeds.

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Fascinating. I got my CW along with the others from a local feed store that gets from a hatchery (not sure which one). They are all a year old now. One of the chicks is super light in color and some have a dark beak and some have a light beak. I'm thinking of keeping them to see how they turn out as adults. One of the chicks from him and my EE was darker and is definitely blue. This is him now. So I would like to compare them as they grow. Thanks again so much for all your knowledge and help!