Lavender experts needed!.... Again.

[chickeneyfoot]

I have some lavenders and lavender splits.
If I breed the splits to splits would it produce lavs? Can I sell the splits as blacks without lavs poping up?
Thank you.

 

[Aschenfire]

You would get 25% black (no split), 50% black (split to lavender) and 25% lavender

 

[NYREDS]

Although you need to understand you'll get those ratios in a large enough sample. If you hatch 10 you may get a much different result. If you hatch 1,000 or more those ratios should hold true.

 

[littlecritters]

Is there any way to tell the blacks (no splits) from the blacks (splits)? I assume not?

 

[hinkjc]

Nope, there is no way to tell the pure black apart from split black/lav.

 

[chickeneyfoot]

I hatched out some blacks/splits? With some with a little white fluff on their beard. I assume thats the splits? the others are pure black and pure lav. IF I bred a pure black with a lav what would happen? And what would happen if I bred splits together?

 

[hinkjc]

Any black chick can show white fuzz on their chick down. It does not indicate the lav gene is recessive in a particular bird.

Lav to black = 100% black chicks, all carrying the lav gene
Split to split = 25% lav, 50% black split (carrying the lav gene), 25% black (no lav gene)

 

[chickeneyfoot]

Sorry, can you give me the lavender breeding percentage. Like lav to split and lav to black and lav and lav?
Thanls

 

[Thefarmersmistress]

Charlie,
Your orpingtons are beyond beautiful and trying to understand poultry genetics.
So far i read females only get 1 gene and that is from the father. Sons get one gene from the mother and one from the father. So..,
Breeding a pure lavender female to a pure black male would result with: females black 50%, males black split with lav.50%

Breeding (mom) pure lavender female to (son) black split with lav = black female 25%, lav female 25%, all lav male 25%, black split with lav 25%
Breeding (daughter) black female to (father) pure black = all black offspring 100%
breeding ( daughter) black female to (son) black split with lav = all black male 50%, all lav female 25%, all black female 25%, black split lav male 25%

I noticed on backyard chickens your numbers were different. Where did i go wrong? Also on the lavender splits, will there be any lav feathers or will they look all black? If what i read is true, how can you have a split to a split if the female can only be black or lavender? Or did i not read up enough that there are other factors to consider about color? Appreciate your input

 

[keesmom]

Breeding black to lavender will result in 100% black chicks split for lavender (carrying one copy of lav). Gender does not matter.

Breeding lavender to a black split will result in 50% lavender, 50% black split for lav, again gender does not matter
Breeding black split to black split will result in 25% black, 50% black split to lav (still visually black), 25% lavender, regardless of gender.