Not that I'm aware of. @ColtHandorf may be able to shed some light on thisFrom a show breeder. So this breed can have 2 different colored combs & wattles?
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Not that I'm aware of. @ColtHandorf may be able to shed some light on thisFrom a show breeder. So this breed can have 2 different colored combs & wattles?
As others have stated, I don't think they are SQ, although they may have come from a line that produces SQ birds.
Because the OP has stated multiple times when queried by other people that the birds came from a "show breeder," implying, whether they meant to or not, they are operating under the delusion that those birds are of any quality above lavender-colored backyard chickens. I have zero doubt that the birds don't meet the proposed Standard of Perfection by the American Poultry Association for Lavender Orpingtons. I highly doubt the parent stock does either. It is not, however, inaccurate to say that bloodlines that produce show quality offspring produce birds that are not show quality.I don't mean to be rude, but why give an answer so weighted towards being mild that it becomes inaccurate? I am absolutely certain you know that can't be show stock.
To the OP, I do not believe the birds are mixed with any other breed or, for that matter, any variety of Orpington (including Black, which would vastly improve the quality of their feathers). They are, as so many Lavender Orpingtons are, a product of un-educated backyard breeders that have bred the Lavender Orpington for no purpose other than to churn out more Lavender Orpingtons and sell them to make as much money as they can with no regard for breeding the birds for quality rather than quantity. Just like hatchery-quality Buff Orpingtons look nothing like the APA Buff Orpington kept by breeders that work toward the SOP for that variety or the Buff Orpingtons that adhere to the SOP in the UK for "English-type" Orpingtons, the Lavender Orpingtons you have currently are a poor facsimile of the breed.@Toretto , the breeder definitely lied to you. Those are too gangly to be Orpingtons of any age, with the skin pigmentation issues and the color leakage, I am positive they are mixed breed.
Chicken raising only becomes humane when money is removed from the equation. Like all things I supposeThey are, as so many Lavender Orpingtons are, a product of un-educated backyard breeders that have bred the Lavender Orpington for no purpose other than to churn out more Lavender Orpingtons and sell them to make as much money as they can with no regard for breeding the birds for quality rather than quantity.
Indeed. There's a fine line someone must walk when animals and business are hand in hand.Chicken raising only becomes humane when money is removed from the equation. Like all things I suppose
I don't think that is a pea comb. In the first set of pictures, if you enlarge the photo, it's a single. In the next set of images, the quality is too poor to tell. It does look odd, but you'd expect to see that breeding birds all willy-nilly to produce as many as you can to sell them to unsuspecting or uneducated people.One of those cockerels definitely has a pea comb instead of a single comb as is proper for the breed, so at least that one is a mix and not a pure Orpington. That whitish patterning in his feathers is silver color leakage.
X2I don't know about show quality or not. @ColtHandorf and @Auntiejessi3 probably do though. But yes, these two are Orpington cockerels, it's lavender though, not lavendar