Lavender Orpington Thread

[ChickenS41T]

This is my Lavender - my 5yo chicken keeper named her ... Lavender lol. She is so beautiful. And she suddenly doubled in size at nine weeks!! Enjoying her very much. Pretty sure by now she is a pullet - if she cries it will break my heart!

 

[ShanandGem]

My lavender cuckoo cockerel. He was hatched end of Feb. Quite a handsome fellow, I think, and has very nice manners both with me and the ladies. He's actually a little lazy and prefers napping in the shade to mating. His girls pile on top of him like he' s a big throw pillow lol.

 

[ChickenS41T]

Well, I don't know why my picture didn't post. But the chicken I. Question crowed. Heart = broken.

 

[Lucky Lemon]

My 9 week old Lavender Orpington that I've been holding out hope for (to be a pullet), crowed today. Hopefully he will stay nice and calm and be able to stay!

 

[ChickenS41T]

My 9 week old Lavender Orpington that I've been holding out hope for (to be a pullet), crowed today. Hopefully he will stay nice and calm and be able to stay!

I feel your pain!!! Mine started a few days ago at ten weeks. Had to give up my excellent flock protector mixed breed to keep him because my daughter chose him and because he is more docile with her (so far). I had my heart set on that one giving me eggs!!!

 

[sdubski]

My 9 week old Lavender Orpington that I've been holding out hope for (to be a pullet), crowed today. Hopefully he will stay nice and calm and be able to stay!

Ours are twelve weeks with no crowing yet from the Lavender Orpingtons. We have five Lavenders, two probable pullets, two probable cockerels, and one unsure.

 

[gimmie birdies]

gave away my lavender mix, because he was a boy. So friendly though, I told the lady if she took him she could not eat him.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I adopted a pure LO to replace the one I had to give away... hopefully it's a girl. I was going to name her "Loni" but maybe it will be Bubbles.

for her friends, I also adopted a GLW, and a leghorn, Speckled sussex and a BO all pures. plus she will be friends with 2 silky-mixes i have a blue and a black.

 

[purplechicken7]

I've read that Orps are supposed to have white legs and a white beak. Well, I've seen that most Lav Orps have a black beak and black legs. Is the black coloration an undesirable trait when it comes to Lavs?

 

[Faraday40]

I've read that Orps are supposed to have white legs and a white beak. Well, I've seen that most Lav Orps have a black beak and black legs. Is the black coloration an undesirable trait when it comes to Lavs?

I've only seen lav orps with the standard dark gray legs & beak. The white legs & beaks are for the white & buff orps. Black orps always have the black legs & beaks. They would look silly otherwise. Since lavs come from black orps (with the recessive lav genes), they should have the darker legs & beak. I've seen someone mix buff & lavs as an experiment, and those chicks looked lav with the lighter skin that you mentioned. However they were neither buff nor lav - just sold as pretty barnyard mixes. Although they've been around a while, the lav orps are considered a newer color in America & not yet accepted into the SOP books yet.