Is this a pullet or cockerel??

[Poultrybonkers]

Also, the first bird is not a purebred barred rock. So not sure if that makes a difference or you can still tell she's a pullet. Haha

Shes still a pullet

 

[Pippin quail]

Can't be a lavender mix as that mix all chicks would be black. But its a cockerel just a slow maturing one

Where does the lavender coloring come from then? I have a lavender Orpington hen and had a barred rock rooster and a lavender rooster at the time I think. Did end up with a lot of black chicks in that hatch. I'm confused about chicken genetics! Lol

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Where does the lavender coloring come from then? I have a lavender Orpington hen and had a barred rock rooster and a lavender rooster at the time I think. Did end up with a lot of black chicks in that hatch. I'm confused about chicken genetics! Lol

To get lav offspring would need a lav x lav or two splits or split x lav to get lav, first gen crosses are always splits and are always black

 

[Pippin quail]

To get lav offspring would need a lav x lav or two splits or split x lav to get lav, first gen crosses are always splits and are always black

Hm, very interesting..I also have a buff/lavender Orpington. Could she be the mom? Or I should just give up trying to figure out all my crazy mixes

 

[LadiesAndJane]

The bird in question looks like a lavender cuckoo. I see barring. Can you get better, clearer close up photos? Also of the saddle area? Can’t explain how you got this one genetically though!

 

[Pippin quail]

The bird in question looks like a lavender cuckoo. I see barring. Can you get better, clearer close up photos? Also of the saddle area? Can’t explain how you got this one genetically though!

Not sure if these are helpful. I also have a couple other grey cockerels and pullets and I figured they were all part lavender Orpington. No idea where else the lavender color would have come from. I have no other grey chickens and all the eggs I hatched were from my own hens and roosters.
I had a black rooster (he was salmon faverolles Andalusian mix I think), a barred rock and a lavender Orpington. Maybe the grey was some genetics from the salmon fav/Andalusian?? I didn't even think of that before because he was completely different looking than the grey ones I have. Plus I'm pretty sure he was butchered before my last batch were close to being incubated and there's 3 grey ones in that batch! It's a mystery.

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

I’m pretty sure all but the last barred one with the long tail feathers are pullets, the others don’t have pointed saddle feathers.
Oh and the lavender now that I look closer.
Lavenders will be bigger and grown faster then the others, even when they’re hens, my hen Crow is half lavender and is huge with a big dark comb but definitely female
In the first picture that’s her at about 5/6 months in between my fully grown Easter egger hen and my fully grown Black Copper Maran hen.
The person I got her from has such a gorgeous big lavender rooster, lavenders are so pretty

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Not sure if these are helpful. I also have a couple other grey cockerels and pullets and I figured they were all part lavender Orpington. No idea where else the lavender color would have come from. I have no other grey chickens and all the eggs I hatched were from my own hens and roosters.
I had a black rooster (he was salmon faverolles Andalusian mix I think), a barred rock and a lavender Orpington. Maybe the grey was some genetics from the salmon fav/Andalusian?? I didn't even think of that before because he was completely different looking than the grey ones I have. Plus I'm pretty sure he was butchered before my last batch were close to being incubated and there's 3 grey ones in that batch! It's a mystery.

Wow… a barred lavender, I had one of those but he was a roo so I sold him, he came from my two barred mix hens that I think had a tiny bit of lavender in them so he just so happened to inherit it, the barred lavenders are so so pretty.

Here are pictures of him and his parents to help, they might look completely different then their parents because they just so happen to inherit a few genes, by the time I sold him he started getting his bars… I’m regretting selling him greatly because I thought my two hens Ghost and Crow were roosters but they were not so now I’m at 15 hens and only one tiny silkie rooster who’s terrified of my older five

 

[Cali-chick]

I’m curious how this turned out. I’m new to this site so, I’m learning from these older posts.