Lavender Orpington project ....

[Bebeof3]

Lol omg should of ad that back before I posted... He did not give her a shot of passion he gave her a short of pain reliever

 

[Bebeof3]

**** spell check!!!!!!

 

[kittydoc]

OK, here I am crawling out of the woodwork with some specific Lavender Orp questions.

I hatched 6 lav eggs in late May. Lovely babies with no yellowing at all. I have two cockerels and four pullets. One cockerel looks fabulous to me, and he's the dominant one. The other cockerel has some slate speckling at the base of his comb--how much of a color fault is that, for a color that doesn't really have a standard? (Or is there a proposed standard available somewhere?)

Two of the four pullets have more fretting than the other two. However, I know they are nowhere near adult plumage since they haven't even quite turned 3 months old. How concerned should I be about that now?

Since these chicks were obviously the product of a Lav x Lav breeding, I have just hatched out some black/lav split chicks from a diverse pen (2 roos, 4 hens) from another breeder. The two roos were gorgeous. Huge, great body type, beautiful plumage. You could put a leash on the big one and he'd look like an odd Labrador Retriever, he is so darned big. I know the owner is entering the larger one at his state fair (which I believe starts at the very end of this month).

I plan to keep black/lav splits of both genders and not breed Lav x Lav, at least not with the first chicks I hatched. I need to get in touch with their breeder to find out whether she had more than one rooster in her breeding pen, but I suspect just one. They are very uniform in type, color, and size. My black/lav chicks are showing their genetic diversity early.

So my questions are (1) is the dark speckling on the one cockerel's comb a problem? (2) Does my plan to breed all of them to black/lav splits sound like the best option to keep improving the feathering and English type?

I promise to post photos one of these days. Some of them need a bath. The bad thing about lavs is that every poop stain shows!

Thanks in advance!

 

[kittydoc]

Lol omg should of ad that back before I posted... He did not give her a shot of passion he gave her a short of pain reliever

I laughed out loud. Sometimes I think we could all use a shot of passion!

 

[Bebeof3]

I know ridiculous right.... Even when I try to fix it and wrote about checking before I post I screwed it up lol. Can't win

 

[RFR of CA]

Well my young lavender roo is finally producing splits with my english black group of hens. Looking forward to some fluffier, brighter and rounder lavenders next year!

 

[araceli]

those lavenders are spectacular birds! They will bring you so much joy! Such sweethearts!

 

[RFR of CA]

This is one of my English Blacks I planned on using to cross into my Lavenders--talk about a pom pom butt !

He is six months old and already bigger than my adult lavender roo. The feathers sticking up in the back are his other wingtip. He is almost completely round right now-probably rolls in a strong wind ...

 

[kittydoc]

QUESTION: Has anyone ever had a lavender pullet or hen lay PINK eggs? Not just pink tinted brown, but PINK. I can't think of any other pullets that I have at point of lay that might produce an egg this color. The eggs I hatched my lavenders from were all light brown. Just curious! I have one Ameracauna laying green eggs, one Brahma laying light brown eggs, as well as black and Jubilee pullets laying light to medium brown eggs.

Thanks!


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[chocol8bikini]

I was blessed with boys.... I'm in WA if anyone wants one for free.