Lavender Orpington project ....

[Bare bottom farm]

They are so cute!!

You did a great job!!

 

[lildinkem]

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This is what BoB said:

"You have Priscilla alone to thank for the first lavenders, her dream of creating a lavender bird of orpington type came about when she acquired a leghorn type lavender cockerel and many years of hard work and a lot of dissapointments no doubt along the way led to the beautiful birds we have today, my input into this colour was along the the cuckoo line producing the cockerel that fathered the first lavender cuckoo's, he was blue cuckoo split for lavender, at the time i had no suitable lavender hens so this boy was passed to Priscilla to work with in her lavender project, the hens pictured were produced from a blue line and are a shade lighter than most lavender but a colour shade i rather like
Bob"


So these hens were produced from a Blue

So I can say I am in the Lavender Cuckoo game thanks to this fella.

 

[scbatz33]

Looky what showed up in the incubator this time! Now, who is the culprit????

 

[NewHopePoultry]

Aww!

 

[scbatz33]

It's starting to look like a hatchery in my bathroom!

Lots and lots of splits! And a couple lavs for good measure

 

[kathyinmo]

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Do ya have any idea who is throwing them? Did you get more than just the one?

 

[scbatz33]

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Do ya have any idea who is throwing them? Did you get more than just the one?

Only one so far. Last season, my lav pullet was a mottled thrower. And I only got lav mottleds. I have no idea on this one.

I have my 3 split females - all from lav roo over "SQ" hens, 1 non-split female and they are being covered by split male - from same lav roo and SQ hens, and the cha-chinger lav roo.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Do ya have any idea who is throwing them? Did you get more than just the one?

Only one so far. Last season, my lav pullet was a mottled thrower. And I only got lav mottleds. I have no idea on this one.

I have my 3 split females - all from lav roo over "SQ" hens, 1 non-split female and they are being covered by split male - from same lav roo and SQ hens, and the cha-chinger lav roo.

Very interesting! Is the split roo from last year's stock? Could it be him?

I am hatching every egg I get from the Cha-chinger pair. So far all are Lav and Black. I will let ya know if I get any.

 

[scbatz33]

The split roo is from last year's breedings. The cha-chinger split is just not as nice.

 

[HenThymes]

Just so you know I am very envious

, I want a mottled!!