Lav X White??

[1Chick Magnet]

will do. think you were right about the 2 boys. they protect the girls and spar with each other. so here are the names. the blue boy is alfredo, the splash is soupie. the larger partridge is marsala, the tiny partridge is pot pie, the blue girl is omlette. the show girls are gizelle, chantelle, and (my name lola i am a showgirl) been singing the song for a week. i figure if any of the showgirls are roos then they will be female impersonators from vegas lol.

 

[SusanJoM]

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I hatched out a beautiful white silkie cockerel from some eggs a friend gave me in the spring. He was very beautiful, but I gave him away last week. Seems to me if you aren't specifically breeding for white that it's dangerous to have around since it can cover up every other thing you might be looking for....

My worthless two cents.

Susan

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

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A very good observation!

 

[klf73]

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I hatched out a beautiful white silkie cockerel from some eggs a friend gave me in the spring. He was very beautiful, but I gave him away last week. Seems to me if you aren't specifically breeding for white that it's dangerous to have around since it can cover up every other thing you might be looking for....

My worthless two cents.

Susan

Yeah, I was thinking of getting rid of my white Araucana. I want to focus on the Lav project and wasn't sure what to do with these guys/gals. I only have 3 and they are all rumpless but not tufted. They are pretty, but if I listen to dh I will have way too many birds. He just keeps saying keep em all

but I know that is not realistic and I don't want my property to look like a community, with little coops all over, just a couple (or a few)

and I don't want to mix them all and end up with a LOT of mutts. Maybe I will just see who turns out to be pullets and keep them for my eating egg pen

 

[KKluckers]

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I hatched out a beautiful white silkie cockerel from some eggs a friend gave me in the spring. He was very beautiful, but I gave him away last week. Seems to me if you aren't specifically breeding for white that it's dangerous to have around since it can cover up every other thing you might be looking for....

My worthless two cents.

Susan

But if you know what the white is hiding.....I could be of value to use them in you breeding program. Thanks Harry for the break down.

 

[SusanJoM]

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I am absolutely sure that that is right.

But for a beginner like me, with an already-too-large population of birds, and without information as to the background of this solitary white, I figured it was better for me (me only) to get rid of him while I had the backbone to do it.

Susan

 

[tadkerson]

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I think Harry did a good job but I have to disagree with him on two points.

For a non black recessive white bird to be crossed with a lavender or self blue bird- the offspring would be black (females) or black and leak some non black color. The lavender bird carries genes that would make it black. The lavender genes dilute the black to lavender. The dominant black genes found in the lavender bird would make the offspring black.

If the dominant white bird carries two genes for dominant white then all the offspring will be white or some variation of white. If the bird carries only one dominant white gene then the offspring will be white or black.

As Harry said, the chances of lavender being found in large fowl is remote. I did have lavender show up in an easter egger that I hatched. My neighbors dog killed the bird. I was wanting to use the gene in some of my work but it was not meant to be.

Tim