How do you get Lavender plumage, and is this a Lav chick?!

[Habibs Hens]

1) you know one parent is lavender
2) they have the lavender/self-blue phenotype and breed like lavenders (100% if bred to another lavender, 50/50 if bred to a black split for lavender, 100% black if bred to a black who is not split for lavender)
3) expensive DNA testing.

thanks for that

i was asking this as i wanna try making a coronation sussex

and as far as i am aware the black gene dilutes to grey and the red gene dilutes to buff giving lavender plumage


so i was thinking of crossing a light sussex [black hackles] with a buff orp then i was gonna cross the off spring with another lightsussex then that off spring cross with a lavender orp

then the resulting off spring with again another light sussex

hopefully keeping the sussex hackles but also inserting the lavender gene into it

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: For coronation, you do not want to add in buff. It will mess up the phenotype. Coronation is a white body with lavender hackles. There are coronation sussex available, and getting one would be your best option. I will PM you the name of someone who has a trio to sell. I can't speak to their quality, but it has to be better than using an entirely different breed..

 

[Habibs Hens]

cheers

im in UK btw so would need a UK breader


been looking more into it

and can see it might be possible

here is a simple layout of what colour/gene does what

If you mate:
Lavender X Lavender = 100% Lavender offspring
Lavender X Split = 50% Lavender, 50% Split offspring
Lavender X Black = 100% Split offspring
Split X Black = 50% Split, 50% Black offspring
Split X Split = 25% Lavender, 50% Split, 25% Black offspring

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

cheers

im in UK btw so would need a UK breader


been looking more into it

and can see it might be possible

here is a simple layout of what colour/gene does what

If you mate:
Lavender X Lavender = 100% Lavender offspring
Lavender X Split = 50% Lavender, 50% Split offspring
Lavender X Black = 100% Split offspring
Split X Black = 50% Split, 50% Black offspring
Split X Split = 25% Lavender, 50% Split, 25% Black offspring

Right. Just realize that you won't be able to tell the splits from the black in split X split, and the percentages are accurate only with large numbers of hatchlings.

 

[Habibs Hens]

im thinking a lav orp on a light sussex should give me 100% split

Lavender X Black = 100% Split offspring

then maybe i could do split on split and hope from them a few turn out lav

Split X Split = 25% Lavender, 50% Split, 25% Black offspring

from that i could then continue on with lav on lav

Lavender X Lavender = 100% Lavender offspring

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

im thinking a lav orp on a light sussex should give me 100% split

F1: Lavender X Black = 100% Split offspring

then maybe i could do split on split and hope from them a few turn out lav

F2: Split X Split = 25% Lavender, 50% Split, 25% Black offspring

from that i could then continue on with lav on lav

F3: Lavender X Lavender = 100% Lavender offspring

That would work, althouth I'd have at least a couple of unrelated pairs to start with so that you widen your gene pool. You can then cross the F1s from one group with those of another; Likewise the F2s. You'll probably need to add in some backcrossing to the lights to correct type.

 

[Habibs Hens]

That would work, althouth I'd have at least a couple of unrelated pairs to start with so that you widen your gene pool. You can then cross the F1s from one group with those of another; Likewise the F2s. You'll probably need to add in some backcrossing to the lights to correct type.

i was thinking the same thing

get a feew light sussex nd a few lavenders and mix and mach the f1, f2 and f3s

that way they inbreading can be kept to a minumun if not stopped