Lavender Orpington project ....

[mimibug]

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Just have to ask, are you sure that is an orpington chick? It has very black and petite legs as well as a solid black beak, not what I am familiar with seeing on lavender orpingtons??The conformation at three weeks doesn't seem right for an orpington either.

No, we got her from a local gal who claims she hatched eggs from "top breeders". Here's a pic of her....What do you think?

 

[HenThymes]

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Just have to ask, are you sure that is an orpington chick? It has very black and petite legs as well as a solid black beak, not what I am familiar with seeing on lavender orpingtons??The conformation at three weeks doesn't seem right for an orpington either.

No, we got her from a local gal who claims she hatched eggs from "top breeders". Here's a pic of her....What do you think?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/97480_chick6.jpg

That's a better pic but I don't think that chick is 3 weeks old, looks more like a one week old. You should start to see a growth spurt and gangly stage in the coming next couple of weeks.

 

[HenThymes]

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What's the mille bantams??

 

[mimibug]

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No, we got her from a local gal who claims she hatched eggs from "top breeders". Here's a pic of her....What do you think?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/97480_chick6.jpg

That's a better pic but I don't think that chick is 3 weeks old, looks more like a one week old. You should start to see a growth spurt and gangly stage in the coming next couple of weeks.

No....she's definitely 3 weeks old. I've had her since Friday 6/3. If anything, she should be older than 3 weeks! I'm so confused now!

 

[HenThymes]

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That's a better pic but I don't think that chick is 3 weeks old, looks more like a one week old. You should start to see a growth spurt and gangly stage in the coming next couple of weeks.

No....she's definitely 3 weeks old. I've had her since Friday 6/3. If anything, she should be older than 3 weeks! I'm so confused now!

Did you get to see the parent stock? Bantam lav Ameraucana???

If it is an orp at three weeks plus in age I would have to say cockerel with that slow of feathering (my opinion from my personal lav hatchings) most of my girls are much further in feathering by that age. Keep up posted, sorry about your confusion.

 

[mimibug]

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No....she's definitely 3 weeks old. I've had her since Friday 6/3. If anything, she should be older than 3 weeks! I'm so confused now!

Did you get to see the parent stock? Bantam lav Ameraucana???

If it is an orp at three weeks plus in age I would have to say cockerel with that slow of feathering (my opinion from my personal lav hatchings) most of my girls are much further in feathering by that age. Keep up posted, sorry about your confusion.

No. That's why I'm so darn confuse! I saw a picture of their cockerel. And it LOOKS small in the picture, but he was by his lonesome so it's hard to judge. Oh, well. I guess time will tell!

 

[wilds of pa]

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mimibug in this pic does that smaller chick have feather sprigs coming in on the lower inside of the left leg or it at least looks like it, its hard to see the legs in the pic..

 

[kathyinmo]

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Did you get to see the parent stock? Bantam lav Ameraucana???

If it is an orp at three weeks plus in age I would have to say cockerel with that slow of feathering (my opinion from my personal lav hatchings) most of my girls are much further in feathering by that age. Keep up posted, sorry about your confusion.

No. That's why I'm so darn confuse! I saw a picture of their cockerel. And it LOOKS small in the picture, but he was by his lonesome so it's hard to judge. Oh, well. I guess time will tell!

My Lavender project Orps were smaller in the earlier generations than the later generation.
Maybe your Lavender came from earlier generation parents?

 

[tgrlily]

There's someone in CNY who is using a very small lavender roo & selling eggs on Ebay.
Your chick looks younger than three weeks, though.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

These are 5 or 6 day olds from my stock. You can see the wing feathers coming in on some of these already. Yours just doesn't look like a 3 week old project lav orp should look like at that age. Maybe it's just a late bloomer or from someones earlier generation lav flock.