Lavender Orp x SLW or EE

[aurajean515]

I have a year old Lavender Orpington rooster I want to breed with my EE, I wanted to know if any of her blue/gray feather coloring might show up in the offspring?
Someone also suggested I cross my SLW with him and was wondering what her offspring might look like, and if the lacing would show up.

I crossed my EE with my RIR roo and theres a neat feather pattern but theyre all red/brown, I was hoping I'd get more of a variety with this cross??

 

[Mvan42]

I am not real sure, but I think it depends on which genes are dominant. And that may very for each chick. I would love to see the results of the lavender and SLW.

 

[ColtHandorf]

The Lavender Orpington x Silver-laced Wyandotte breeding will result in chicks that are all visually black. They will carry lavender. You might see partial lacing.

I have no idea what you'd get from the EE's.

 

[CountryFlock]

Best chance for a cool looking chicken would be silver laced Wyandotte with EE.

Lacing should show up.

 

[aurajean515]

Best chance for a cool looking chicken would be silver laced Wyandotte with EE.

Lacing should show up.

I dont have a rooster in either of those breeds. I want to know what would be best to breed my lavender orpington with. I have other breeds if you have any suggestions

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

I dont have a rooster in either of those breeds. I want to know what would be best to breed my lavender orpington with. I have other breeds if you have any suggestions

"Best".......what result are you looking to achieve?

 

[CountryFlock]

Maybe lavender orp with blue EE. There’s a 50% chance for offspring to be blue.

There’s a less chance of pattern being covered up if you breed lav orp to EE I believe.

 

[aurajean515]

"Best".......what result are you looking to achieve?

Just neat feather colors! I know the lavender orp has recessive black genes, but does that mean with every pair, every chick will be black?

 

[aurajean515]

Maybe lavender orp with blue EE. There’s a 50% chance for offspring to be blue.

There’s a less chance of pattern being covered up if you breed lav orp to EE I believe.

Cool! Thanks!

 

[ColtHandorf]

I know the lavender orp has recessive black genes, but does that mean with every pair, every chick will be black?

Not exactly. Lavender dilutes black. The bird is only Lavender because is is actually black. It requires two copies of the Lavender gene in order to produce a bird that is visually Lavender. When you cross a Lavender bird (two copies) to a Black bird (no copies) then you are going to get a Black bird that is split to Lavender. This is because the offspring can only inherit one copy of the Lavender gene from each parent. Since the Black parent is unable to supply one, the chick will be visually Black. However, if you take those female babies back to their Lavender father then statistically, 50% of those babies produced will be Lavender because they received one Lavender gene from each parent (two total) resulting in a visually Lavender bird. The other half of the offspring will all be split to Lavender but visually be black.