Lavender color?

[wilds of pa]

Must have silkie or some other crested cross into here. May have Bantam orpington also in here..? unknown

 

[JenEric Farms]

It does look like an orpington cross to me...could it be polish/orp maybe...

 

[DANNY]

Interesting that you say lavender has to be introduced into a bird but lavender was originally made from some cross. I wonder what it was.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

Yes, where did the first original lavender bird appear from? I was wondering this today as well....

 

[danielle82]

Someone on this forum or another posted a possible way to make a pinkish bird. I think it was a bit more involved than simply lavender over red, but I do believe that was part of the "recipe."

Isabel is lavender over buff--pretty much the straw portion of a porcelain. Some mille fleurs seem to have darker or browner areas than others--males especially seem darker, but not all of them.[/

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Hmmmm, lavender over buff? Is that different from regular lavendar? What is lavendar generally over? Black?

Kezabel, very cool looking chicken! Thats called lacing, huh? I like it!
TRhanks for all the information, I am learning so much and I love it! Its so satisfying to start figuring things out

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Lavender is not "made." It is a single recessive gene that, when a bird carries two copies, dilutes both red and black pigment (the only 2 pigments chicken feathers have).

There are some colours that are the result of two or more genes; buff and red are good examples of this. Other colours: blue, black, splash, white are caused by a single gene.

Many of the patterns on feathers are the result of a combination of genes, but a few such as sex-linked barring are the result of a single gene.

At the moment lavender is a popular colour, and is being introduced into breeds where it ws not previously found. Note that in the US the self-blue variety IS the lavender variety--they are synonyms, And self blue has been a recognised colour for a very long time.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Yes

 

[DANNY]

So how do you get lavender?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

As was clearly stated early in the thread, to get lavender birds you have to use lavender birds; breed them to your own birds, then breed your new lavender-carrying birds together.

 

[wilds of pa]

I expect to see many many breeds in the next few years ahead sporting and expressing the lavender/dilution color.. many eggs and culls and chicks, etc have been sold and so this will happen..

One must remember to keep them out of colors they don't want getting caught up in this Lavender recessive gene. If you have blacks and don't want lavender mixed in, remember to mark birds that carry the recessive lav gene so they don't get mixed in with plain blacks.

It could become a nightmare when others purchase them and breed them into black or other color lines they don't want the recessive lav gene in....time will tell..

~Wilds~