"Helpers" Anonymous-Chat Thread

[StevenW.]

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those are pretty! i like the hen she looks very cute!
I found this site on "lavendar" marans...
http://www.papspoultry.com/bluecoppermarans.htm

The chick could be a lavendar... Never had a blue/black/splash and lavendar birds before

 

[adyhart1]

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those are pretty! i like the hen she looks very cute!
I found this site on "lavendar" marans...
http://www.papspoultry.com/bluecoppermarans.htm

The chick could be a lavendar... Never had a blue/black/splash and lavendar birds before

nor I duck... she had blacks, blues, splash in one pen. I need to read how one goes about getting lavenders... i still dont understand all the colors of birds and how you get certain colors

 

[StevenW.]

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The chick could be a lavendar... Never had a blue/black/splash and lavendar birds before

nor I duck... she had blacks, blues, splash in one pen. I need to read how one goes about getting lavenders... i still dont understand all the colors of birds and how you get certain colors

Make a thread? See if some other people have any ideas

 

[adyhart1]

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nor I duck... she had blacks, blues, splash in one pen. I need to read how one goes about getting lavenders... i still dont understand all the colors of birds and how you get certain colors

Make a thread? See if some other people have any ideas

Well i read on another thread someone had started about Lavenders. Basically they said out of a B/B/S you can get self blues (which some call lavenders?) but they aren't lavenders???? They said you have to introduce lavenders to get lavenders... so my question is where did they get the lavenders to begin with????

 

[justmeandtheflock]

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The chick could be a lavendar... Never had a blue/black/splash and lavendar birds before

nor I duck... she had blacks, blues, splash in one pen. I need to read how one goes about getting lavenders... i still dont understand all the colors of birds and how you get certain colors

Lavender is a recessive color so the bird needs 2 copies to be lavender. Lavender silkies were made by breeding a lavender bird to a black silkie and then breeding the offspring to each other to get a pure lavender bird. These lavenders are then bred back to black silkies in order to improve the silkie type. This needs to be done several times to get a bird that is true to the silkie type in the lavender color. When you breed a lavender to a black you get birds that appear black but carry the lavender gene. When you breed them back to each other you will get 25% pure black, 50% splits and 25% pure lavs.

 

[justmeandtheflock]

The lavender bird that they start with is a different breed.

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And self blue is the APA accepted name for the color lavender.

 

[adyhart1]

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nor I duck... she had blacks, blues, splash in one pen. I need to read how one goes about getting lavenders... i still dont understand all the colors of birds and how you get certain colors

Lavender is a recessive color so the bird needs 2 copies to be lavender. Lavender silkies were made by breeding a lavender bird to a black silkie and then breeding the offspring to each other to get a pure lavender bird. These lavenders are then bred back to black silkies in order to improve the silkie type. This needs to be done several times to get a bird that is true to the silkie type in the lavender color. When you breed a lavender to a black you get birds that appear black but carry the lavender gene. When you breed them back to each other you will get 25% pure black, 50% splits and 25% pure lavs.

Yeah i read that you have to have two copies and you have to breed lavender to black. But they said you can get self blues out of B/B/S but some people call self blues lavenders??? Which is confusing... The other three birds i have look splash... that one does not... the pin of the feather is light...

So i guess its not a lavender but a self blue???

 

[adyhart1]

Just found a white feather!!! lol so i dont have to worry about the lavender

 

[justmeandtheflock]

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Make a thread? See if some other people have any ideas

Well i read on another thread someone had started about Lavenders. Basically they said out of a B/B/S you can get self blues (which some call lavenders?) but they aren't lavenders???? They said you have to introduce lavenders to get lavenders... so my question is where did they get the lavenders to begin with????

You can only get self blue/lavender out of BBS if at least 1 of the hens and 1 of the roos both carry the gene.

 

[adyhart1]

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Well i read on another thread someone had started about Lavenders. Basically they said out of a B/B/S you can get self blues (which some call lavenders?) but they aren't lavenders???? They said you have to introduce lavenders to get lavenders... so my question is where did they get the lavenders to begin with????

You can only get self blue/lavender out of BBS if at least 1 of the hens and 1 of the roos both carry the gene.

she had blues, blacks and splash all in the same pen?