Lav Orp to Buff Orp or Black Cochin? +Questions

[greenfamilyfarms]

For those who have not heard, we have decided to cut back on our number of breeds to 2 - our Buff Orps and our Black Cochins. Just for sanity, I have decided to retain one Lavender Orpington cockerel who I am in love with.

Now, the question is, who do I put him with? The Buff Orpingtons or the Black Cochins? I have a small pen I had some bantams in that could serve as a breeding pen for him and 1-2 hens.

I've heard that breeding him to Buffs would produce Buff offspring with less smut. However, if I was to breed the offspring together would I get lavender chicks? Porcelain chicks? Buff chicks?

Now, I know what the results would be for the Lav and Black breeding - split lav offspring that could be used to create lavender cochins down the line.

So, input please!

 

[Elite Silkies]

I would do one of each. You could breed for the Lavender Cochin and a Porcelain Orpington.

 

[EweSheep]

Lav x Black crosses would get you ahead because there isnt very many Lav Cochins around.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

So, one of each?

 

[catwalk]

I love the isabel color, which would be an eventual result of lavxbuff. You don't get porcalain unless you also have mille, but I like isabel better anyway.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Are you selling off your other breeds? Or just the roosters? I had to scale back too. I'm a little ADHD and found it simpler to have all different colored egg layers

No more hatching mutts unless they are EEs

However, I'm waiting for those giant lav cochin babies you're destined to make! You can never have too many cochins.

 

[Heather08]

I wanna see a pic of a issabelle color....dont think ive seen that.

 

[leghorn dude]

just ship him to me i got some hens he would love lol


oh and i dont think ive seen any lf lav cochins anyone got some?

 

[hinkjc]

A buff x lav will not make porcelain orps. You would need mille fleur for that.. mf X lav = porcelain (eventually). What you will end up is very light blonde buffs after several generations.

If your cochins are large fowl, I would make lavender cochins. I'm sorry to hear you have to give something up. Those decisions are always tough.

 

[JenEric Farms]

Lavender Large Fowl Cochin